Articles by Branan Ranjanathan

Praise

Leave It All Behind

PUBLISHED May 4, 2016

Although Praise hail from Baltimore, their latest EP, Leave It All Behind, paying even stronger homage to the seminal melodic hardcore acts...

Culture Abuse Push Boundaries with 'Peach'

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2016

San Francisco is home to a number of bands that are changing the landscape of modern punk, but few stand out like Culture Abuse do. Fusing...

Culture Abuse

Peach

PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2016

Pinning down Culture Abuse's sound is no simple task — the San Francisco five-piece mash together a plethora of sounds drawn from all corne...

Like Pacific

Distant Like You Asked

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2016

With their debut full-length Distant Like You Asked, Toronto pop-punk unit Like Pacific have crafted a progressive and well-rounded album t...

World Be Free

The Anti-Circle

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2016

Hardcore supergroup World Be Free — which features members of Gorilla Biscuits, Strife, Judge and is fronted by Scott Vogel of Terror — hav...

Basement

Promise Everything

PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2016

Since their return from hiatus in 2014 with their Further Sky EP, Basement have made steady progress with their songwriting. Colourmeinkind...

Mike Pays Heat

Tape 1 Play

PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2016

With their first full-length, Tape 1 Play, Philadelphia unit Mike Pays Heat have borrowed a great deal of their twinkling minimalism from '...

Mindset

Nothing Less

PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2016

Baltimore straight edge hardcore unit Mindset have delivered a concise and robust swansong with their EP Nothing Less — much like 2012's me...