“Something keeps me coming back here, leaving me for worse”
Scream it till it bleeds: Matt DeMello's Canaries for the Cauldron is a "truly unhinged" B-sides collection spanning doo-wop Sublime covers to banjo-laden LCD Soundsystem, left over from his 2022 pop-crossover LP. Start-Track's Start the Track: Vol. IX channels indie heart with proceeds split between the Slovak homeless charity Vagus and the blog itself. The Darts' Topple Over Yesteryear rage against the machine with proud hooligan fury — "Punk Rock Forever!!!" — while their Nailguns and Daggers goes darker and more desolate, spawning Rage of the Beast. This Year Is a Gay Autumn's demo rounds things out with raw bedroom skramz energy.