Hell at The Masquerade
Destroy Boys
FOIE GRAS, Destroy Boys’ fifth album, feels like the record the band has been working toward all along. It’s bigger, stranger, and more confident than what came before, without losing the immediacy that got them started. Roditis and Mayugba formed the band when they were 15, playing DIY shows around Sacramento while still in high…
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Sarah Tudzin is in high demand these days. Not only is she a lauded engineer and producer who has helmed recent records by boygenius, Weyes Blood, and Speedy Ortiz, but her own band, Illuminati Hotties, has also emerged as one of the sharpest and most sensitive acts on the pop- punk side of indie rock…
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The Rat Utopia Experiment is a girl-fronted “circus” punk band from Washington state—aka, the PNW’sfavorite circus act since 2022. Now in five shiny colors: Phia on vocals, Francis on bass, Maddox on leadguitar, Drix on rhythm guitar, and Christian on drums!With the release of their newest single “Lobotomize Me” and the freedom of graduation from…
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