A weekly newsletter and podcast focused on alternative music. Vibing anything post-hardcore-punk-metal adjacent.
music writer, independent scholar, podcast co-host // words in Bandcamp, SPIN, BrooklynVegan, Exclaim!, No Echo, New Noise, and elsewhere
Contemplation and hardcore conversation, delivered straight to your inbox. We believe that hardcore is more than music.
Streaming, sales, attendance, charts, interviews, and more news tailored to the music industry's Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) side. By Ryan J. Downey, longtime journalist (Billboard, MTV, The Hollywood Reporter) and manager.
The best independent new heavy music newsletter: your weekly overview of new releases in black, death, thrash, doom, grind, sludge, and other heavy music.