Making a Dent in Vegas – Enjoy’s Exploited Tour

By: Vlada Stark August 22nd, 2023 – It was a sweltering, even sticky, late summer night in Vegas. Monsoon season has been upping the dreaded August humidity. Yet, fans still poured into the Oxford 24 theatre for Enjoy’s West Coast tour with opening punk bands Bad Vacation and Dumb Fucks, hailing from Brooklyn and Los […]

Scrutiny, Alienation, and Jay-Z: An Interview with Jacodie Big Mountain

By Evelyn Flores & Erika Nunez, Photos By Gabrielle Davila Ortiz “Weed, struggle, and riffs,” says Jacodie of Scrutiny when asked to describe the band’s music in three words. No explanation necessary. Scrutiny’s no-skip, self-titled EP was released on Spotify last year on 9/11, the name inspired by the band’s surrounding environment when they formed […]

Reincarnate – Witch Fever

From Manchester, UK comes doom-punk quartet Witch Fever. Last October, they released their debut EP ‘Reincarnate’ made up of six songs that tackle the reclamation of power in a misogynistic western society. From this EP comes their single of the same name: ‘Reincarnate’. When speaking to Upset Magazine, Witch Fever explained that the song began […]

Penguin Slide – ANTI-VISION

“Welcome back, failure, you’re my friend. Starting over fresh, just gonna fuck it up again,” opens Las Vegas astronaut rock band Anti-Visions in their latest single ‘Penguin Slide.’ The song was mixed, mastered, recorded, and engineered by Cody Leavitt at Asteroid M Records. On the single, Anti-Vision shared that it’s, “[b]een a real struggle navigating […]

Comfort to Me

I haven’t been able to stop listening to Comfort to Me – Amyl and the Sniffers’ second LP – since its release a few days ago. I guess this isn’t too hard to believe since my car rides have consisted of a heavy rotation between their self-titled album, the Jonas Brothers, and the same fifteen […]

Los Espookys

A few weeks ago, Eunice unexpectedly sent me a playlist. Okay, I shouldn’t make it sound dramatic; she sends me music quite often, but it’s usually not in the form of a playlist. This particular playlist she sent was named Los Espookys – Soundtrack. I was instantly intrigued. The playlist created by indicemx consists of […]

Super Besse – Un Rêve

Super Besse is a post-punk turned coldwave duo from Minsk, Belarus. With their last album Un Rêve (2020), Maksim Kulsha and Aleksandr Sinica combined their original post-punk sound with techno and electronic beats. The shift in sound reflects their interest in electronic music that came before the album’s development. Each song on the album was […]

Aurora Boreal

Earlier this month, Señor Kino from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, released their third full-length album Aurora Boreal. The album comes with great anticipation as it was meant to be released more than a year ago but was put on hold because of the pandemic. With this LP, Señor Kino isn’t completely moving away from their surf-punk […]

Broadside – Hidden Colors (Official Video)

Alternative Press award nominees, “Broadside” have released their latest single Hidden Colors – an upbeat semi-punk song about that special someone who can’t quite see how special they really are. When asked about the single, lead singer Oliver Baxter told Astr0Mag: “Not enough bands are keeping it real. We adore women and feel like it was necessary to represent […]