Slapshot played their last gig in Boston on 17 October 2026. For 41 years, Jack “Choke” Kelly had been shouting over fast drums, sick guitar riffs and some of ...
As an independent magazine IDIOTEQ supports DIY ethics and local artists of all kinds. With no-ads policy and mission to give independent artists space they deserve, IDIOTEQ is a place to get inspired ...
As an independent magazine IDIOTEQ supports DIY ethics and local artists of all kinds. With no-ads policy and mission to give independent artists space they deserve, IDIOTEQ is a place to get inspired ...
Deafheaven have unexpectedly released three new songs, and the accompanying film involves a rather remarkable name from outside the metal world. Janusz ...
Keziah “KZ” Staska was at home, surrounded by peace, love and joy, and had no idea how to write another Dreamwell record. “The first song I wrote for the album was ‘Plath,’ so I started writing this ...
Fractured, broken, dark, unpredictable. Those are the words that surface first when you press play on the new Tetsuo EP, a four-track record that moves from chaotic hardcore through bedroom lo-fi into ...
Night shifts in a hotel in Norway, cheap headphones, "Kezia" going round somewhere between two and five in the morning. That is where PROTEST THE HERO got me.
Before this album, the band say songs usually started in pieces — a riff here, a few lyrics there — before one or two people would finish them. The EPs worked differently because each song mostly came ...
Antillectual are spending 2026 marking twenty-five years as a band. After anniversary shows in the Netherlands and Canada, their summer run reached Germany and Austria. Another European stretch will ...
J.D. Morgan was on the fire escape outside his Milwaukee apartment, three stories up, working through a guitar piece he’d been fleshing out at home. Gunshots came from the parking lot of the nightclub ...
The last words an African grey parrot named Alex ever said to his handler were “You be good, I love you.” Decades after his death, those words sit on the front of a post-rock record from London. The ...
When Sungrave started writing their debut album, the songs were mostly concerned with what goes on inside a person’s head. Recognising yourself as you get older, trying to escape habits inherited from ...