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Another half-year has passed, so it’s time for AP’s annual mid-year report, where we break down the best of the best so far. With the cut-off date of June 30, we gathered our top picks and are kicking it off with best albums today. Stay tuned all ...

Young Widows Easy Pain The fourth album from Louisville, Kentucky, noise-rock trio Young Widows is a suffocating aural submission hold that refuses to let up on your carotid artery. Easy Pain is all tension and menace, laden with reverb, distortion and migraine-inducing beats that deliver inspired reinventions of everything fans of metal-gaze (“Doomed Moon,” “Gift Of Failure”), noise rock (“Bird F

Black God, the Louisville, Kentucky side project featuring members of Coliseum, Young Widows and By The Grace Of God, will be doing a short east coast tour late next month in support of their new II EP for No Idea Records. Dates are as follows ...

Black God, the Louisville, Kentucky group featuring members of Coliseum, Young Widows and By The Grace Of God, has released a new video for "Everyone's A Friend." The band spoke about the song in our recent track-by-track feature: "Man, my favorite part of this song is Nick's back up vocals during the chorus. He is such ...

Black God II EP With no song breaking the two-minute mark, Black God’s new EP follows the rule of golden-era Black Flag—four chords, a lead riff, a pummeling rhythm section—and it comes off as smarter than it seems. Pushing into near post-hardcore territory without sacrificing any beats-per-minute, the band only pause their relentless 10 minutes of straightforward rock for intros and outros cons

BLACK GOD vocalist Rob Pennington takes us track by track through the Louisville, Kentucky band's new EP for No Idea Records, II. “Cast You Out” This is the first banger that Ryan wrote for this new EP. This song is not about trashing someone's religious faith but more about expressing my anger with the nefarious activities of faith leaders. I personally believe that ho ...

Louisville, Kentucky's Black God (members of Coliseum, Young Widows and By The Grace Of God) will be releasing their new EP II on Mar. 20 via No Idea Records. Check out a song from it, "Everyone's A Friend," here and stream their debut EP below. Fir...

Black God Black God EP Much the same way that Drive Like Jehu were reconstituted—sort of—as Hot Snakes, three-fourths of Louisville’s hardcore powerhouse Black Cross have reunited as Black God. (The band’s name even seems to be a mashup of Black Cross and By The Grace Of God, one of singer Rob Pennington’s former outfits.) But that isn’t the only sim ...