Stick To Your Guns vocalist Jesse Barnett and Samiam/Knapsack guitarist Sergie Loobkoff have a new band (with Boysetsfire drummer Jared Shavelson) that's very much in the style of Sergie's classic bands, and their debut album (Beach House cover included) is great...
UK rock mag Kerrang follows up their United States of Metal with a ”definitive, objective, indisputable list” (their words) of the best hardcore band of each US state.
Philly punk band Open City are fronted by Rachel Rubino (Worriers, Bridge and Tunnel), and the rest of their impressive lineup includes Dan Yemin (Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black), Andy Nelson (Paint It Black, Ceremony, Dark Blue), and Chris Wilson (Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus…
Baltimore melodic hardcore band Praise have been winning over everyone lately. Their 2016 release Leave It All Behind, which was produced by punk-scene leader Will Yip and released on REACT! Records, was called one of the best releases of the year by Touche Amore and Derek from Defeater...
Dark Blue, the new-ish Philly band of Clockcleaner's John Sharkey III, Paint It Black/Ceremony's Andy Nelson and Strand of Oaks' Mike Sneeringer, recently signed to Jade Tree, and they've now announced that they'll release their debut album, Pure Reality, on the label on Oct…