Rebelmatic are a creative force to be reckoned with and this is extremely apparent on their new album Black Hole Eats The Tornado. The band continues to expand their sound as they seamlessly blend elements from hardcore punk, funk, soul, hip-hop, post-hardcore, jazz, and alt-rock together to create a sound that is groovy, propulsive, and distinctively their own. The band’s lyrical prowess is also on full display as they explore a wide range of topics including mental health, the significance of resistance and resilience, the Tulsa massacre, the vital need for knowledge, and the healing power of good art. Black Hole Eats The Tornado will be out everywhere on April 11 via Say-10 Records. You can pre-order a physical copy here or find Rebelmatic on Spotify here. Rebelmatic will be touring the US starting later this month. Punknews editor Em Moore caught up with lead vocalist Creature to talk about the new album, visual art, working literary references into the lyrics, the importance of making the music you want to make, and so much more. Read the interview below! This interview between Em Moore and Creature took place over Zoom on April 2, 2025. This is a transcription of their conversation and has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Mike Huguenor of Classics of Love, Hard Girls, Shinobu, and the Jeff Rosenstock band, has released a new digital single. "What do I do now" is a stand-alone digital single. Huguenor said in a statement, "Every so often we’re hit with a moment of great uncertainty, a time when we have to stop and ask ourselves, 'Well, what the hell do I do now??' These moments are like the blank space on a page when one chapter has ended and the next has not yet begun, a passage that feels both infinite and always already almost over. The only thing we can be sure of is that it will lead somewhere new. That's the space of “What Do I Do Now?” I hope you enjoy."You can hear the tune below.

Patti Smith has announced that she will be releasing a new memoir. It is called Bread of Angels and will be out on November 4 via Random House. The book will be 272 pages long. The cover art has yet to be released. The synopsis for the book reads, God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Smith starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic recordings and songs such as “Horses” and “Easter”, “Dancing Barefoot” and “Because the Night.” She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred “Sonic” Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again—the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live. Patti Smith’s latest book, A Book of Days, was released in 2022.

Mclusky have released a video for their new song “chekhov’s guns”. The video was directed by Remy Lamont. The song is off their upcoming album the world is still here and so are we which will be out on May 9 via Ipecac Recordings. The band's most recent album was 2004's The Difference Between Me And You Is That I’m Not On Fire and they released a remastered version of it in 2024. Check out the video below.

As you likely know, a number of years ago, As i Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis went to jail for crimes involving him trying to put a hit on Meggan, the woman who was his wife, at the time. They got divorced, obviously. Lambesis got out a few years ago and re-started the band. Late last year, the band imploded again with all the members quitting the band except Lambesis. The band members cited issues with Lambesis' behavior, but were vague. Following that, Lambesis went on a podcast and claimed that he was abused by Dany, his new wife. Dany denied those claims and said Lambesis was abusive towards her.Guitarist Ken Susi recently went on the Brewtally Speaking podcast and detailed what led him to quitting the band. You can read a transcription of a small portion of the episode below.

Scowl just appeared on Late Night with Stephen Colbert. The band performed "Tonight (I'm Afraid)", which is off their new album Are We All Angels which is out now. You can see the video below.

Kaonashi have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called I Want To Go Home and will be out on June 6 via Equal Vision Records. The album features 13 tracks including “J.A.M.I.E.” which features a guest spot from Anthony Green and their previously released songs “Confusion in a Car Crash” and “Fairmount Park After Dark”. The band has also released a video for their new song “When I Say” which was directed by Vic Antonio. Kaonashi released their two EPs A Second Chance At Forever: The Brilliant Lies From Casey Diamond and The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violence Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery. Check out the video and tracklist below.

Sutras have released a new song. It is called “Bloom Watch” and is off their upcoming record The Crisis of Existence which will be out on April 16 via Tomb Tree. Sutras released their EP Awakening of the Spirit in 2024. Check out the song below.

Streetlight Manifesto have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called The Place Behind The Stars and will be out on June 24 via Pentimento Music Co. This will mark their first new album in 12 years. Streetlight Manifesto released their album The Hands That Thieve in 2013. Check out the announcement below.

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