Last night, I got to see the great Infant Island play a sterile downtown Richmond bar and treat it like it was a sweaty basement, and a show like that one has me ready to evangelize for the screamo underground. (Infant Island’s tour with Greet Death still has a bunch of dates left, and if one of those dates is in your town, you should ...

Wasp Factory are a frantic, noisy self-described “clout punk” band out of Columbus. Today they’re following up last year’s rippyman EP with an intense new single called “climate crisis redux,” a callback to their 2020 digital 7″ Wasp Factory Solves The Climate Crisis. If I&...

Chase Plato is a rapper out of Detroit with the aggressively shouty delivery (his abuse of all-caps matches his vocal presence) and a taste for blown-out yet minimal production. “RIP KOBE,” his one song on Audiomack, is sort of like if early Beastie Boys rapped over noisy EDM instead of hard rock. Meanwhile, his new &#822...

Chris Bailey, the singer, songwriter, and sole permanent member of the legendary Australian punk band the Saints, died Saturday. Now his fellow Australian music icon Nick Cave, Bailey’s longtime friend and collaborator, has shared a written tribute to Bailey in the latest issue of his fan-mailbag newsletter The Red Hand Files. A reader...

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