It ended up being manageable, but my oh my, September 2026 was a treat.

Honor Killed The Samurai is yet another piece of Ka ’s cryptic mosaic, an album that cemented his style and caught the ...

Around the time of me starting on the newest edition of THE NOISE OF, there is a crazy heat wave pummeling through Europe. Luckily, I’m on vacation on the coast of Northern Holland, so me melting down ...

This week our featured artist needs no introduction. Since the early aughts the heavy music collective Thou has been one of the most prolific and consistent bands around. Factoring in demos, EPs, ...

Mise-en-Scène or From Emo to Screamo and Back Again. With ambient, folk, hardcore, and post-rock sojourns along the way. The album’s cover is yet another window into the larger story unfolding over ...

Blades clash and spells are cast across the symphonic black metal battlefield on Stormkeep‘s The Nocturnes of Iswylm.

Making a hypothetical Mount Rushmore of jazz without Miles Davis would be disingenuous and the most secular act of blasphemy one could ever seek to achieve. If there’s one man who constantly, ...

These quotes may seem incompatible with each other, and they are from two separate people. However, Emma Goldman (famous anarchist) also said, ‘one cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; ...

Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer takes a stab at several different jazz subgenres with great success on his new LP. The Weather Channel is one of my most-listened-to albums this year, simply for the ...

I had the pleasure of welcoming Cigarettes for Breakfast to our followers through a WFA write-up a little more than a year ago. There, I comment on the band’s solid grasp on the shoegaze sound and how ...

The weather is picking up at this side of the hemisphere, you spend more time outside, and we all need a soundtrack for that. After the overwhelming amount of outstanding records we received in March, ...