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After more than twenty years in the punk scene with Blackbird Raum, Caspian Hollywell founded Twisted Teens in 2024, a new project created alongside Ramon Santos. This union has yielded a constant creative output: 3 years, 3 releases.
It has been a decade since the double and surprising release of Cada can que lamba o seu carallo and Os corenta e oito nomes do inimigo. How has their proposal aged with the passage of time?
Following the impact of their debut, Nuestras manos son incendios (2024), the Costa Rican outfit returns in 2026 with a sophomore full-length that doubles down on structural solidity and the expansion of their own boundaries.
In recent years, we’ve been witnessing the resurgence of shoegaze, a genre with three decades of history that, until recently, didn’t actually have a huge number of bands truly fitting the description. Why is shoegaze so in vogue right now? Are we living through its golden age?
The emergence of Mano Negra at the end of the 20th century left an indelible mark on fusion music and, more broadly, on the Spanish-speaking sphere. However, as the decades pass, certain questions assault us, inviting meditation: was it real that a Parisian group managed to become one of the most influential acts while singing in Spanish? Was it possible to recreate a street of Paris inside a ship to stage performances throughout Latin America? Is it all, perhaps, a collective daydream?
In this new release, the band embraces a heavier sound; there is a clear drift toward hardcore and screamo, genres that serve as the natural vehicle for expressing a sense of pent-up rage.
The Canadian band is kicking off January 2026 with the release of their sixth studio effort, doubling down on their forays into sounds much closer to hardcore—as evidenced by tracks like “Blood for Blood”. It is a fascinating evolution; they’ve traveled from the more juvenile pop-punk of their debut EP, A Way With Words (where … Read more
Let’s imagine an external observer looking at Earth, trying to understand its characteristic sounds. Which genre would be the most cross-cutting in today’s music?
This week’s pick is Beanpole, the debut album by Australian artist Georgia Knight. Its inclusion is something of a mea culpa for not featuring it in our “NOVO 2025: New Voices of the Year” selection.
Wrapped might think it knows us inside out, but there’s nothing like reaching the end of the year to reflect on what truly stayed with us after a year of exploring new sounds.