Maddy Howell

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Articles by: Maddy Howell

Destroy Boys

With Funeral Soundtrack #4, Californian punks Destroy Boys flip a defiant middle finger to an industry that has repeatedly tried to take advantage of their naivety

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California punks Destroy Boys grow up on assertive fourth album, Funeral Soundtrack #4

St. Vincent

Every St. Vincent album ranked from worst to best

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The collected works of Annie Clark re-reviewed and ranked

PVRIS discography

“A fearless creative with a penchant for all things mystical and macabre.” Your essential guide to every PVRIS album

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Unpredictable, creatively restless and utterly fearless, PVRIS have emerged as one of modern rock's boldest artists

All Born Screaming

St. Vincent's superb All Born Screaming offers up thrillingly unfiltered reflections upon life, death, and all the chaos that occurs between those two inevitabilities

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St. Vincent strives for catharsis on masterful seventh album All Born Screaming

Blink-182, 2022

"A whistle-stop tour through the best-loved parts of the band’s storied career, marked by the inescapable turbulence of life": the reunited Blink-182 return older, wiser and stronger for their scars on One More Time...

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Guess this is growing up: Blink-182's classic line-up prove exactly why they're pop-punk royalty, and better together, on first post-reunion album

The story of Sub Pop

A beginner's guide to Sub Pop Records in five essential albums

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Celebrated as the home of grunge, Sub Pop has evolved into one of America's most eclectic indie labels. Here is the Sub Pop story told via five key records

Lana Del Rey

Every Lana Del Rey album ranked from worst to best

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The collected works of Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, one of the great singer-songwriters of the modern age

Death Cab for Cutie, 2018

Every Death Cab for Cutie album ranked from worst to best

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Since their formation in 1997, Death Cab for Cutie have released 10 studio albums. Here's how they rank in order of greatness

Meg and Jack White, 2002

The 'debate' around Meg White's drumming says everything about the enduring sexism in rock music

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This week's tired and boring 'Meg White is a terrible drummer' discourse online speaks volumes about how too many view women in rock music

Rise Against

Every Rise Against album ranked from worst to best

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Socially conscious, honest and fearless, few bands wave the flag for unity more furiously than Chicago’s Rise Against. Here's our assessment of their fiercely committed catalogue

I Prevail

The 10 best I Prevail songs ever, according to vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe

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Looking for the essential I Prevail playlist? Vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe talks us through the band's defining tracks

Nickelback 2022

Every Nickelback album ranked from worst to best

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Love them or hate them, Nickelback remain a formidable presence on the modern rock scene. Here's our considered guide to the Canadian quartet's catalogue

Paramore This Is Why album artwork

Vital, urgent and utterly fearless, Paramore's This Is Why is the sound of a grown band boldly defining their own path

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Paramore return with their first record since 2017's After Laughter. Spoiler alert: it's worth the wait

Pierce The Veil, The Jaws Of Life

Pierce The Veil's The Jaws Of Life: Endlessly exuberant, wondrously versatile, and never predictable

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Hiatus terminated, San Diego's arena-filling post-hardcore kings are hungry to make up for lost time