La Dispute

La Dispute has never been a band prone to settling. The five-piece from Grand Rapids, Michigan, is responsible for some of the most uncompromising, experimental hardcore music of the last decade. From their 2008 debut (in their current formation) Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, to 2011’s Wildlife, to 2015’s…

Sweet Pill

Philadelphia’s Sweet Pill write eruptive emo songs that embrace the edges of pop and  hardcore. The kind of band whose members are fully immersed in their local scene—through a  handful of notable side projects and the show-promoting Philly staple 4333 Collective—the  quintet’s sound takes wide-spectrum influence from its environment. The result is an amalgam  of…

Pictoria Vark