In June 2022, Beat Kitchen hosted the debut ZBR Fest Midwest, a two-day screamo marathon organized by Zegema Beach Records. Festival founder Dave Norman launched the label in 2013, building on the ...

Founded in 2019 and led by singer-guitarist and songwriter Parker Griggs (Radio Moscow), El Perro is a psychedelic funk rock band with a second guitar and percussionist pushing the music into more of ...

While the whole “blackened scramz” thing isn’t exactly new, what Infant Island bring to the style is a low-end chunkiness seldom heard in black metal or “real screamo”. No, this doesn’t mean metalcore ...

If you purchase something from the links on this page, we may earn a commission. Screamo-band Silverstein is stopping into Bogarts in Cincinnati on their current North American tour, in support of ...

Adam Young, a.k.a. Owl City, is best known for his twinkling, melodic and emotive electro-pop. His biggest single to date, 2009's "Fireflies," perfectly encapsulates Owl City's bright, charming ...

Screamo. Probably the most underrated, misjudged genre in the expanding world of music. Also known as metalcore, screamo is a subgenre combination of metal and emo that has been on the rise since the ...

Indiana screamo vets Usurp Synapse reunited last year, and now they’re about to put out their first proper release in 20 years. It’s an EP called Polite Grotesqueries, and it’s the first music that ...

Pretty lovely lyrics, right? Maybe a bit self-conscious considering the kid singing them is about to wail his head off in the next verse. But I think we can agree that the white-hot angst of ...

You’re forgiven if you can’t immediately tell what Portraits of Past front man Robert Allan Pettersen is shrieking about on “Song With the Slow Part.” This posthardcore burner sounds like it’s on the ...

It’s a holiday weekend, the unofficial start of summer, almost halfway through the year, all of which makes now a good time to catch up on some of the many great records released in 2022 that you may ...