Excide

This week's stacked Notable Releases include reggae trailblazer Protoje, alt-country great Nikki Lane's Josh Homme-produced LP, The Wonder Years' stunning new album, jazz innovator Makaya McCraven, and more...

This week's playlist includes new music by Björk, Wednesday, Jockstrap, Dream Unending, Tyler Childers and The Food Stamps, Protoje (ft. Lila Iké), Sudan Archives, and more.

Fans of Turnstile, Quicksand, Snapcase, and other bands with chunky riffs and good hooks, take note.

The February roundup of punk column In Defense of the Genre includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.

This week's playlist includes new music by Jazmine Sullivan, Sharon Van Etten, Big Thief, Spoon, Cult of Luna, Excide, Riverby, Caroline Polachek, and more.

Fans of Turnstile, Higher Power, and Quicksand, take note of Carolinas upstarts Excide, whose debut LP will arrive later this year.

Will Turnstile's success open the doors for more hardcore bands? Here are 10 ships that we think Turnstile's rising tide should lift...

Our August playlist includes songs by Black Thought (ft. Pusha T & Killer Mike), Deftones, The Killers, Bright Eyes, Sufjan, Bon Iver, Angel Olsen, Billy Nomates, Sweeping Promises, Jazmine Sullivan, Carcass, Mr. Bungle, Napalm Death, and more...

A roundup of all the August installments of punk column In Defense of the Genre, along with a list of the five best songs of the month.

New songs from Solstafir, Gojira, Primitive Man, Venomous Concept, Tooth and Claw (mem Earth Crisis, Catharsis, etc), Vatican Shadow, Uada, Dead To Fall, and more...