There’s something I love about getting lost in sweet, dreamy, synth pop tinged with melancholy. It’s like a gentle tug on my shadow self, reassuring me that it’s okay to escape reality sometimes. WINGTIPS make that kind of dream pop post-punk that I listen to on repeat on grey days.

Most music is something that exists outside of you. Even though it enters you through your ear canals, it just dances around the space you give it, never crossing the threshold of your energetic body. But there is music that pierces you in a thousand places until it floods your

Photos: Eduardo Cruz (except where noted) One of the things I get to do in my job is go to fests. I go to a lot of fests. Usually at least 8 to 10 in a year. Punk fests, death fests, doom fests you name it. This August, I found

When you look out upon the world, do you see a bleak wasteland? Does the light of the sun and human hypocrisy burn your eyes? Then you should hit play on our stream below and let the depraved and destructive sounds of LvxCaelis rain black metal down upon you! Their

Austin, TX’s Atmospheric Doom warlocks MONTE LUNA just released this rad video for their track “Man of Glass” off their forthcoming album Drowners’ Wives, and watching it I feel like I’m being transported back to a simpler time when survival meant food, shelter and magick. And lest we forget, violent

Someone told me that every day, our brains send us 70-80K messages, most of them completely irrational. It’s up to us to sift through them and choose what to follow and what to ignore. I think that’s why so many people gravitate to fast, loud, chaotic metal like the new