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"DIY music isn't a subculture, it's a counter culture." idioteq.com/inside-the-e...
Inside The End Of Impact fest 2026 - an interview with Cady, Shooting Daggers, Víbora, L'Idylle, Laurie Bird and Lumière - IDIOTEQ.com
"A catastrophe in which individual boundaries dissolve into a collective whole." That's how Warm Room Collective frame THE END OF IMPACT, borrowed straight
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bratlash chats with @idioteqcom.bsky.social about our Debut EP! idioteq.com/bratlash-deb...
bratlash walk through their debut EP, discuss power, transmutation, an all-femme production chain, and staying off Spotify - IDIOTEQ.com
At Obrien's Pub in Allston, after bratlash's debut EP release show, a woman came up to Jett Hexx to say she'd heard the band for the first time that night.
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New screamo meg a feature just landed! New Friends Fest '26 Special: 36 bands, four reunions, and a 15-band roundtable. idioteq.com/screamo-summ...
"Screamo summer camp": 36 bands, 4 reunions, and 15 bands on what New Friends Fest '26 means to them - IDIOTEQ.com
In 2018, around a hundred people showed up to the first New Friends Fest in Toronto. The organisers, including members of Respire and La Luna, had spent the
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Thank you @idioteqcom.bsky.social for featuring Unlettered and our new album "Devil's Bowl"! idioteq.com/unlettered-r...
UNLETTERED release "Devil's Bowl" today, scale personal grief into eleven tracks of post-punk pressure from Southwest Florida - IDIOTEQ.com
"Devil's Bowl," the new Unlettered LP out today, was written and recorded inside that pressure. Eleven tracks of guitars that grind low and patient, basslines
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Self-promo time: I’ve been playing bass in a band called Narrow Arm for a little while now, and we have a single that is debuting today! Karol from @idioteqcom.bsky.social was kind enough to craft a write-up for us as well — you can read it here: idioteq.com/narrow-arm-t...
NARROW ARM stretch post-punk, make post-rock shorter, tighter and more physical on "Ticking Clock" - IDIOTEQ.com
Narrow Arm start with a room. "Ticking Clock" comes from three players tracking primarily live inside Distorted Forest Studio, a barn in the Rhode Island
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IDIOTEQ takes us through the history of Something Sneaky and collects the band's lineage of friendships and family, leading to a full track breakdown with the Boston foursome of new EP 'Old Notes'. ⚡ idioteq.com/something-sn... @idioteqcom.bsky.social
IDIOTEQ Explore is live. Two decades of our exclusive coverage of independent artists, now browseable by country, city, genre, label, and year. Interactive map, genre graph, country stats, full catalog search. Full write-up on how it works - idioteq.substack.com/p/idioteq-ex...
IDIOTEQ Explore is live: map & genre atlas available!
20 years of underground coverage on world map and genres atlas
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Under The Radar Artists hunt continues. Another week on IDIOTEQ in the books - idioteq.substack.com/p/weekly-und...
Trapped Under Ice by Future Breed - Live at the Great American Hardcore Fest at Club Lido in Revere, MA on September 19th, 2009.
Torena have released Extinction, a three-track EP out June 12 via DAZE. “Born In Pain,” “Extinction,” and “Nothing But Revenge” - cultofluna.bandcamp.com/track/in-the... @DAZE_STYLE @Torenahc
MADBALL drops “Tethered”, the opener to their 10th lp “Not Your Kingdom,” due July 24, a follow-up to 2018’s “For the Cause” and arrives via @nbeurope @nuclearblastusa // www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWld...
A Static Lullaby pulled a Taylor Swift on their own debut. 23 years on, Dan Arnold on the homemade hardcore starter kit Joe gave him in 2003. So glad we could talk about it. idioteq.com/a-static-lul...
A STATIC LULLABY look back at their 2003 debut, touring, the new era, and the live version of "...And Don't Forget To Breathe" - IDIOTEQ.com
In 2002, Joe Brown handed Dan Arnold a stack of CDs and told him to do his homework. The two had been in different bands together through high school in Chino
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Geoff Rickly and Jeremy Bolm trading the closing lines of "Paris in Flames" together at Outbreak Fest 2024. Full clip up on YouTube via @daitanfilms
Thank you @idioteqcom.bsky.social for premiering the reissue of #CarVsDriver's Deja Grateful. That's right, Stickfigure & #LunchboxRecords are reissuing Car Vs. Driver's Deja Grateful on vinyl. Once test pressings have been approved we'll start accepting preorders. idioteq.com/premiere-car...
Premiere: CAR VS. DRIVER's "Without A Day" from "Deja Grateful" reissue, 30 years out of print - IDIOTEQ.com
Car vs. Driver existed for two years. Between 1993 and 1995 the Atlanta quartet put out two LPs, an EP, a split EP, a pile of compilation tracks, played
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@idioteqcom.bsky.social These questions were so thorough and thought provoking. idioteq.com/hammock-disc...
Beauty Is Timeless: HAMMOCK discuss ambient music as a way of seeing, belief, perception, and misreading the world - IDIOTEQ.com
The title of Hammock's fourteenth album comes from a specific night. Two friends on LSD, both raised fundamentalist Christian, sitting on a gazebo over a pond
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Out today the acclaimed debut by @s_i_l_k_b_a_n_d 💿 cds shorediverecords.bandcamp.com Vinyl: silkband.bandcamp.com #shorediverecords #shoegaze #indie #alternative #dreampop @idioteqcom.bsky.social
New DEMERSAL single is pure fire 🔥 idioteq.com/demersal-som...
DEMERSAL preview an epic album about masculinity, loneliness, and hatred with "Som Sendt Fra Himlen" - IDIOTEQ.com
"Hvad vil du være, når du bliver stor, smukke?" "What do you want to be when you grow up, beautiful?" That line sits inside Demersal's new single "Som Sendt
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Vegan metalcore and hard-edged hardcore drive Ecotage’s new five-track record Redemption, out May 22, 2026. The Finland band circles around animal liberation, human liberation, and environmental justice - ecotagehc.bandcamp.com/album/redemp...
Redemption, by Ecotage
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No Guard drop two tracks from No Guard: “Half The Man I Am” and “Burden Of Life.” Out May 20 via DAZE and Triple B Records dazestyle.bandcamp.com/album/2-song...
2 Songs From
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"Coliseum is quietly, happily working on a new album. But don’t tell anyone." 🤫 idioteq.com/caterwaul-20...
"Slowpunk is about how to be punk when you grow up. You get slower. Go to less shows. You get a mortgage. Which sounds not very punk. But that's the switch." #thehoneybeeband
Thanks to @idioteqcom.bsky.social that did an interview with my one-person-band återstod and Finnish screamo band Letterbombs about our split release that came out on No Funeral Records two weeks ago. idioteq.com/screamo-spli...
Screamo splits tradition continues on the newest offering from Finland's LETTERBOMBS and Göteborg's ÅTERSTOD - IDIOTEQ.com
"I Thought I Saw You In My Dreams" is the longest Letterbombs song to date. It takes up the band's entire side of a new split tape with Swedish project
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Steve Albini's death in 2024 left a void in the lives of everyone he worked with. Mono made almost every record at Electrical Audio over 25 years. Snowdrop is the first they have made without him. We talked to Taka about 3 funerals, the flower language & idioteq.com/post-rock-ma...
Japanese post rock maestros MONO discuss 'Snowdrop', recording without Steve Albini, and the language of flowers - IDIOTEQ.com
Talking to Mono is a real honor. Twenty-seven years in, thirteen studio albums deep, a quartet who have shaped what serious instrumental music in this
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A very special guest coming up next week - an in-depth interview with experimental / instrumental / post rock legends. Take a guess.
Check out this deep dive with our lead guitarist Tom on our upcoming album @idioteqcom.bsky.social 🌀✨ Full feature here: idioteq.com/progressive-... @apfrecords.bsky.social @forthelost.bsky.social
Progressive post metal sludgers URZAH talk earthen heaviness, vocal lessons and 13-minute closers ahead of June 5 release of "A Tranquil Void" - IDIOTEQ.com
The Wolfess arrives somewhere between worlds. On "Hunter in the Veil," the second single from Urzah's incoming LP, that figure carries the whole song —
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