New Releases

2023 Rumble Champs ONE FALL Close Out Banner Year With The Next Batch Of Your New Favorite Punk Rawk Anthems On Spine First!

We cannot get over how rad the new EP from Salem’s ONE FALL is. Actually, scratch that. We can get over it. You know why? Because ONE FALL ain’t your 2023 Rock & Roll Rumble winnahs on a lark. They earned it from releases and performances like this and if [...]

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Singles! Ex-Hyena, “In Slow Motion”

We don’t listen to Ex-Hyena nearly as much as we should and latest single, “In Slow Motion”, is a glaring reminder of that fact. A Gothic Electro burner in the vein of The Faint’s early work with sweeping old school ’80’s New Wave tendencies, the newest from Reuben Bettsak and [...]

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Singles! Parts Per Million, “CTRL ALT DEL”

Once we discover a new band, barring some kind of disastrous/monumental change in sound, we’re usually fans for life. Maybe that’s the comic nerd/collector/completist in us but loyalty is a thing we believe in. Just don’t be trash bag humans and stay true to yourselves in the tunes, okay? Like [...]

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Singles! CARV.R, “SAINT.EXE”

We love us some Electro around the RNRF offices. We especially love the kind of Electro that not only begs repeated listens but also benefits from repeated listens and in the case of “SAINT.EXE” from Providence’s own CARV.R, it’s that kind of Electro.

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Singles! Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones, “The Growler”

Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones’ last banger/earworm (“Buzzkill Baby”, go get yourself obsessed here) was one that we really, really, REALLY wanted to cover but just missed our window of opportunity so when the newest slab of what we assumed would be some more sonic gold dropped in ye [...]

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Venera Craft A Haunting Score For The Scariest Movie Never Made On Debut Full-Length

We were going to start this whole thing talking about the parts of a whole of Korn and how diverse the different players are outside of their day job as Nu-Metal giants. But who wants to read all that? What we will say is that coming from the band that [...]

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