Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Poonh Ghana A phone screen can make the world feel impossibly close while leaving us powerless to change what's happening beyond it. Porcelain confronts the contradiction on DSD, the final preview of their sophomore album, Today's Minor Victories. The Austin quartet drives the song forward with serrated guitar riffs, punchy percussion, and Steve Pike's increasingly urgent vocal delivery. Conceived as a companion to their earlier single Torch, t

Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana Some songs knock on the door; Red Flag comes through the wall. Austin noise-punk band TEAR DUNGEON releases the final preview of Squirm, due October 2 through TODO Records, while announcing a sprawling North American tour. Across these songs, distortion behaves like another section in the band, swelling around the riff but pulling back just enough for the next impact to register. The track drives uphill on a riff with drums and gui

TEAR DUNGEON turn “Freak Flag” into a scuzzy, live-wire preview of Squirm, proving disturbing has rarely felt this good.

Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana If punk is supposed to make people uncomfortable, Tear Dungeon are doing exactly what the genre was built to do. The Austin outfit returns with I'm Not Dead Yet, a ferocious blast of distortion that strips songwriting down to its bare essentials before detonating into controlled mayhem. Fueled by grinding riffs and an unapologetic attitude, the band delivers a track that feels like a pressure valve finally giving way. The official

Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana Hope doesn't always arrive with optimism. Sometimes it survives by refusing to disappear. Austin's Porcelain built that idea into the core of Apocalypse, a crushing introduction to their upcoming sophomore album, Today's Minor Victories. Metallic guitar lines grind against pounding rhythms as the band wrestles with disillusionment, grief, and the slow erosion of childhood ideals. Every riff serves the narrative, allowing the emotio