The Armed

The group is making another lap around the eastern states

50 records from a year that overwhelmed us with great music

See the band play at a raucous, sweaty DIY show

Plus Ratboys, Open Mike Eagle, The Cowboys, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Pleasure Forever, and jaimie branch

Doubling down on pop hooks, the Detroit collective offer up some of their most magnetic songs to date

Plus The Armed, Vagabon and Fugitive

‘Perfect Saviors’ out August 25

Plus Sampha, The Budos Band, and Carlos Niño and Friends

Check out the video for “Sport of Form,” featuring Julien Baker, and starring Iggy Pop

A 50-album survey of an extended, exciting era for hardcore

Plus watch a new video clip for “Masunaga Vapors”

Watch a clip of “An Iteration”

See the band tear through songs from ULTRAPOP.

Our 50 favorite records of a strange and eclectic year.

Our favorite tracks from a pretty strange year

The year in heavy.

Plus Thou, Moor Mother, Jessica Pratt, Kelly Lee Owens and more.

See the new clip from the upcoming ‘ULTRAPOP: Live at the Masonic Temple’

Screenings begin October 15.

The year’s half over and it’s still hard to know what to make of it.…