“Once we win our court case, which we will, we promise to embark on an even bigger tour to all you great heads,” the band said in a statement

Kneecap have cancelled a sold-out, 15-date tour of the United States, citing the shows’ close timing to band member Mo Chara’s next court appearance on a terror charge.

Four shows in Canada – two in Toronto and two in Vancouver – are still scheduled to go ahead during what would have been the run of US shows, however, while all shows in Europe through September, November and December are also undisrupted.

Sharing the news of the tour cancellation, the band said in a statement: “Due to the close proximity of our next court hearing in…

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As the world was changing irreversibly, from 1999 to 2001 Jimmy Eat World went from DIY band done good, to powerhouse name, to international phenomenon – the story of emo itself in microcosm. For Emma Garland, their encapsulation of the subculture’s multi-generational range is emo’s definitive three album run

It should probably be said, up front, that emo isn’t a genre. It doesn’t refer to one specific sound, era, or movement. The term sprang out of Washington D.C’s mid-80s hardcore punk scene as shorthand for “emotional hardcore”, but it didn’t really mean anything. It was just semantics – a militant’s way of distinguishing newer, more outwardly vulnerable bands like Rites Of Spring from slightly older, more traditionally “masculine” bands like Black…

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As they return from a 26 year studio hiatus sounding fresher than ever, Prolapse speak to Derek Walmsley about the benefits and pitfalls of defying the 90s mainstream, self-sabotage, empathy with the downtrodden and the growing spectre of mortality

Photo by Geboren Wustmann

Three of the four members of Prolapse are sitting around a pub table in London, just like the old days, cracking jokes and gatecrashing each other’s sentences. This is a rare meet-up in person, but the energy crackles as it did back in the 1990s, because the play of language and the switchbacks of humour – what could be called banter, if it weren’t for the toxic connotations – is who they are, and how their music is made….

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Abhorrent Expanse

Enter the Misanthropocene

Recorded live in the studio, the Chicago quartet’s latest longplayer takes metal to wild and free new dimensions

Enter the Misanthropocene by Abhorrent Expanse

Ever listened to an Ornette Coleman LP and thought, “yeah, it’s okay I guess, but it could really do with some blastbeats”? If so, avant-metal weirdos Abhorrent Expanse might just have a dollop of the secret sauce you’ve been craving.

Like the band’s 2022 debut, Enter The Misathropocene was improvised live in the studio. This means that despite having songs titled ‘Prostrate Before Chthonic Devourment’ and ‘Nephilim Disinterred’ there’s a distinct lack of rollicking riffs, and the band’s approach to heavy metal is more likely to leave you scratching your head than feeling compelled to whip…

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Preservation & Gabe ‘Nandez

Sortilège

In a hip pop landscape often defined by surface-level bravado, Gabe ‘Nandez and Preservation summon something rarer: a record that feels like prophecy, ritual, and rebellion all at once

Sortilège by Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez

Sortilège, French for “spell” or foretelling through chance, opens like a conjuration. Gabe ‘Nandez and Preservation first connected on Aethiopes, where Nandez appeared on the track ‘Sauvage’. That spark became the foundation for this record. Drawing from Malian dust, Argentine shadows, and New York cadence, the album immediately conjures a world both familiar and uncanny, a liminal space where the past and present collide.

The opener, ‘Harmattan’, drifts with the grain of Ali Farka Touré, evoking Saharan winds that carry dust across West Africa. Nandez…

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As it receives a new 10th anniversary release, Zachary Lipez delves back into the metafiction, self-interruptions, complexities digressions and inversions that made Billy Woods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing a masterpiece

Sometimes the way some people compare Billy Woods to this or that dead novelist can grate on the nerves, carrying as it does a whiff of the bad old days of high society rags like The New Yorker needing to assure its readers that hip hop was, like, street poetry. Because if Cam’ron wasn’t essentially a differently-bescarfed Jorie Graham, what the hell was he doing in those august pages? Or the in-between days, when the intelligentsia (white division) was sussed enough to see Saul Bellow’s rhetorical question, “who is the Tolstoy…

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With this year’s Supersonic Festival just a week away, tQ’s Claire Biddles selects 10 must-sees from a stacked lineup, from Nigerian rap to Philadelphia queercore to locally-sourced Brum heaviness, via a screening of a cult Czech gothic drama, a heavy dose of weirdo folk music and more

Penelope Trappes, photo by Jason Renaud / Backxwash, photo by Méchant Vaporwave / Karl D’Silva, photo by Der Fotoautomat

Known for its boundary-pushing line-ups and warm community feel, Birmingham-based festival Supersonic returns from 29 August to 1 September with a programme of metal, hip-hop, folk, and everything in between. Artists range from aya to Rich(ard) Dawson, with performances, workshops and even a pub quiz to enjoy over the long weekend. Have a read of the…

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Deftones

Private Music

90s nu-metal survivors indulge in a séance, but the ghost they are summoning is… themselves?

I was doomscrolling the other day and a post stuck with me. It sported an article clipped from a magazine. It read “baby born from embryo frozen in 1994, the oldest baby ever”. Someone retweeted the article: “that baby could have been playing tony hawk pro skater 2 and listened to killswitch engage, now he’ll play fortnite and listen to carti”.

I don’t know if it’s just me and my algorithm, but sometimes it feels like the world ended in the early 2010s. This is a silly example of that doomsday feeling, but it’s telling. Many of us remember life back then like this blissful American…

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Representatives for the artist have confirmed that it’s not a deluxe edition of her last LP, but rather a whole new record

FKA twigs has teased a new album, which will be titled Eusexua Afterglow.

The UK artist took a moment in her recent performance at Dutch festival Lowlands, which formed part of her tour in support of this year’s EUSEXUA LP, to tell fans about the upcoming project, saying: “I am full and abundant and ready to give birth. Her name is Afterglow, and my labour shall commence next month.”

Representatives for twigs later confirmed to Pitchfork that Eusexua Afterglow is “not a deluxe version, but rather a whole new album”.

It’s believed that recent standalone single ‘Perfectly’ will appear on the record, but no tracklist…

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Hinds died in Atlanta on Wednesday after a collision while riding his motorcycle

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Brent Hinds, former guitarist of Atlanta metal band Mastodon has died, aged 51.

In a statement, Mastodon said:

“We are in a state of unfathomable sadness and grief… last night Brent Hinds passed away as a result of a tragic accident. We are heartbroken, shocked, and still trying to process the loss of this creative force with whom we’ve shared so many triumphs, milestones, and the creation of music that has touched the hearts of so many. Our hearts are with Brent’s family, friends, and fans. At this time, we please ask that you respect everyone’s privacy during this difficult time.”

According to local news reports, Hinds…

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