The beginning of 2011 started off auspiciously for local electronic favorite Panic Bomber. He enjoyed increasing fans on the circuit for his performances that combined live instrumentation — brass, vocals, and more — with technology and ooh-aah stuff like light-up suits.He played Ultra Music Festival and other similar events around…

After a few years of whining, makeup, and unfortunate haircuts, things seem to have come full circle in certain corners of the all-ages hardcore-ish scene. Actual hardcore is back in its full gym-shorts-wearing, windmilling glory — no overly complicated attempts at subgenres or sing-screaming needed. Luckily, too, there’s a new…

When Two-Door Cinema Club comes to town on June 5 to headline Revolution, their well-chosen supporting act is well worth a listen by fans of similarly punchy pop-rock. Cincinnati duo Bad Veins has popped in and out of mainstream consciousness, but certainly are radio-friendly enough to push past the verge…

With Torche’s latest album, Harmonicraft, the sort-of-local trio continues to move further and further away from the metalish sounds that defined its earliest material. If anything, Harmonicraft is as close to pure distorted guitar pop as the band has ever been, full of sing-along choruses and even — perhaps distressingly…

Atlanta five-piece Stokeswood has dubbed its style “low-endie,” which a listen reveals to mean thus: indie rock bolstered by plenty of electronics and the occasional bass frequency. Think sweet, melodic vocals with tinkling beats and layers upon layers of reverb and effects, expertly capturing a sort of nostalgic indie-world Zeitgeist…

At just under 30 years old, Freddie Gibbs, who opens for Raekwon at Revolution this Friday, April 6, boasts more than a decade in the hip-hop game already. All right, in hip-hop, that’s actually several lifetimes, and that makes Gibbs pretty much a wise old battle veteran. Yet for many…

Once upon a time — like, pre-dating social media time — “screamo” wasn’t a dirty word. For a relatively brief but enthusiastic period in the mid-’90s to maybe the early ’00s, it was a purely underground thing, borne out of hardcore. There was almost no sonic resemblance to the later…

With current-day experimental electronic music so often divided along trendy blog lines, it’s refreshing to hear a local act resurrect a term you don’t hear too much on Hype Machine and the like — trip-hop. But the local three-piece Astrea Corporation does, indeed, pick up a strain of boom-bap beats…

In the late ’90s and the early ’00s, Long Island act the Movielife seemed like the official band to like for tattooed tough dudes who just wanted a little melody sometimes. The group drew some threads from melodic hardcore but wove them mostly into melodic, sing-along pop-punk and played notoriously…

Savannah, Georgia, sure isn’t a particularly beachy place, but reggae knows no geographical bounds, especially among the college-age set. And school is indeed where this group formed in 2003, when its members were all students at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In ensuing years, though, visual art has…

The members of Nashville foursome Hot Chelle Rae all boast parents and various other family members from high up in the Music City industry echelons. (Two, Ryan and Jamie Follesé, are brothers.) As such, though they play their own instruments and appear to write their own material — and flirt…

With Winter Music Conference and the madness around Ultra in full swing, it seems that almost all of Miami-Dade County is currently pulsing to a four-four beat. This show at Bardot both fits in with the overall electronic Zeitgeist of the week and subverts it. Four Tet is the alias…

Canadian act Comeback Kid has stuck around so long — marking a full decade this year — that it’s managed to last until a renewed scene interest in more pure hardcore sounds came about. The quartet, despite forming at a time when posthardcore was in its trendy infancy, was never…