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Striking a balance between pop punk and post hardcore is nothing new, but the new ‘Picked Last’ EP from VA-based group Underdog Champs eschews the traditional points of fusion in favour of a more loose approach. Bouncy opener “Love Songs”...

The British are coming, the British are coming! Indeed they are, and with full guns blazing. With Bullet For My Valentine's recent revival, While She Sleeps' massive album drop and now Asking Alexandria's rebound, the UK is certainly seeing a...

It’s always pleasing when a band comes along that manages to completely defy genre parameters, even if the resulting product is a bit too obtuse to be enjoyable. Unbeknownst to many Twenty One Pilots have been doing this since 2009....

Stakes are high and emotion is charged on The Story So Far's 3rd and self-titled record. Having become one of pop-punk's most watched up-and-comers, The Story So Far could have easily gone with a well-known producer and followed through with...

Few are the bands that reach the peak of their powers thirteen years into their existence, but that was the case with Silverstein and their conceptual magnum opus ‘This Is How the Wind Shifts’. A refocusing of their energies rather...

The general public perception of ‘emo’ has shifted so far away from what the movement originally represented that it’s easy to forget the significance of many of the genre’s less brash, populist groups. Where subtlety and class have never been...

Veil of Maya have been long-regarded as a heavyweight in the ever-popular "Djent" movement. Since they have landed in the scene, the sound has become less of an oddity and more of a trend with an increasing number of bands...

In the film industry, or as an author of any sort, it is a privilege to create a trilogy. A trilogy implies the fact that the original story was so well-received that it was deserving of not 1, but 2...

The Mindsweep tour with Enter Shikari, Stray From The Path, A Lot Like Birds, and I The Mighty made it’s way to Sacramento’s favorite music venue, Ace Of Spades, on April 21st. One of our photographers, Daniel Mikesell was there...

The Mindsweep tour with Enter Shikari, Stray From The Path, A Lot Like Birds, and I The Mighty made it’s way to Sacramento’s favorite music venue, Ace Of Spades, on April 21st. One of our photographers, Daniel Mikesell was there...

The Mindsweep tour with Enter Shikari, Stray From The Path, A Lot Like Birds, and I The Mighty made it’s way to Sacramento’s favorite music venue, Ace Of Spades, on April 21st. One of our photographers, Daniel Mikesell was there...

Double albums are always a difficult product to swallow in one sitting, so doing a System of a Down and staggering their release is a crafty move it’s a surprise fewer acts haven’t cottoned on to. On face value it...