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Music and Riots Music and Riots is a record store and an independent music publication. We like to dig deeper within-depth writing while exploring different genres and styles.

We are dedicated to exploring the boundaries of music, movies and other subjects that we find intriguing. Our goal is to bring to our readers the latest genre-pushing work from the most innovative artists. Nothing is off limits for us, we say whatever we want about who ever we want, from the underground to the mainstream.

NEW ARRIVAL _______________▪️QUEENS OF THE STONE AGEPerfecth (Black Vinyl)Perfecth arrives at a moment of hard-won clari...
30/10/2026

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▪️QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Perfecth
(Black Vinyl)

Perfecth arrives at a moment of hard-won clarity for the band. The record’s nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others. The loves that break you and the loves that bring you back. The music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange.

“Insignificant Other” is the album’s centerpiece – sprawling, loose, and supernatural. “Mono” captures the headspinning feeling of heartbreak with a mix that slips seamlessly from mono to stereo and from claustrophobia to widescreen orchestral grandeur. The band remains enduringly, singularly magnetic. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure.  

NEW ARRIVAL __________________▪️P**Syou made me / skin on linen(LOSER Edition on Pink Vinyl)P**S is a noisy, genre-bendi...
30/10/2026

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▪️P**S
you made me / skin on linen
(LOSER Edition on Pink Vinyl)

P**S is a noisy, genre-bending four-piece band from Vancouver, B.C. Combining punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art, the band creates a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the line between personal and political.

Powered by thoughtful musicianship, energetic live performances, and a crystal-clear artistic mission, P**S writes punk music that aims to transcend the limitations of a well-established genre. Their work draws inspiration from a range of unexpected influences: literary giants, philosophers, filmmakers, painters, psychoanalysts, activists, children, members of a German anarcho-feminist militant group, and conversations with audience members. These voices represent varying ideological beliefs about gender-based violence and enable P**S to create art that depicts challenging and controversial issues such as sexual violence and enculturated gender norms without reduction, romanticization, polemics, or dogmatism.

Their debut LP, you made me / skin on linen, depicts a childhood shaped by structural, systemic, and intimate violence. Throughout the record, art-making motifs serve as metaphors for the myriad ways we carry the effects of this violence: each experience leaves an impression, gradually creating or deforming the self, much like a piece of clay molded by every mark it receives. While you made me / skin on linen exists as a recorded work, P**S was meant to be experienced live. Every performance presents the album’s narrative, preserving its emotional arc from beginning to end, while allowing the work to exist as an evolving experience. With each show, the band aims to transform venues into spaces where confrontation, catharsis, reflection, and mutual care can coexist.

NEW ARRIVAL _______________▪️MARINA HERLOPDja Dja(Black Vinyl)Marina Herlop's Dja Dja opens like a held breath finally r...
17/10/2026

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▪️MARINA HERLOP
Dja Dja
(Black Vinyl)

Marina Herlop's Dja Dja opens like a held breath finally released: a violent celebration of life, though not the hedonist's easy yes. The exultation here is hard-won, arrived at rather than assumed, an affirmation drawn up from reflection and a long inward descent, stripped of every naïveté. What animates it is a kind of undirected anger, rage reimagined as a creative force that spends itself in catharsis, and a gratitude so overwhelming it can no longer be contained by the body. This is a music of struggle, but the struggle is not for conquest or ruin; it is for self-affirmation, for the quiet authority of someone defending her principles without ever needing to name them.

Conceived as a single, unbroken body of work in which every track answers to the others, Dja Dja is the most architecturally ambitious thing Herlop has made, a giant sudoku built out of smaller sudokus, where the whole had to cohere even as each piece kept its own internal logic. Beneath that design lies a borrowed scaffolding, a structure used at first for purely architectural reasons and then, once the music had taken its shape, allowed to fall away. The frame is gone; the music stands without it. Whatever a listener finds in it is, by her own insistence, no less true than what she found while making it.

NEW ARRIVAL _________________▪️RUSSIAN CIRCLESNine(Limited Edition on Eco Graphite Vinyl)Chicago-bred post metal trio Ru...
16/10/2026

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▪️RUSSIAN CIRCLES
Nine
(Limited Edition on Eco Graphite Vinyl)

Chicago-bred post metal trio Russian Circles new album Nine continues their unhurried evolution and disciplined refinement, leaning into their strengths while pushing at the boundaries of their sound. This is a band with no hit songs. No fan consensus on their best album. Just a reputation of consistency and quality that built one of the biggest heavy instrumental rock bands in the world.While they insist that their music is a confluence of broad-ranging influences, it’s fair to say that Russian Circles’ adventurous diversity has developed into a distinct and singular sound.

Although Russian Circles is now spread across the country - guitarist Mike Sullivan in Los Angeles, drummer Dave Turncrantz based in Chicago, and bassist/keyboardist Brian Cook living in Vashon Island, outside of Seattle - the band triangulate their relative positions for Nine. Its seven seismic tracks act as long-form oriented soundtracks to the trials and tragedies of life in the modern age. “The music we make is a collective process of reconciliation, navigation, and reflection upon aging both as individuals and as a creative entity. Life has created very real distances between us, but the band continues to be at the center, and this creative collaboration is a way of charting the passage of time while also giving us a reason to look to the future,” the band elaborates. Whereas earlier albums were almost playful in their traversing of territories, Nine is a document of a band that knows the lay of the land and is fortifying their dominion over the varied terrain.

NEW ARRIVAL ___________________▪️FONTAINES D.C. DOPAMINE chamber (Limited Edition on Marble Blue Vinyl)Dopamine Chamber ...
16/10/2026

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▪️FONTAINES D.C.
DOPAMINE chamber
(Limited Edition on Marble Blue Vinyl)

Dopamine Chamber arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes and celebrity culture. “The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”

Fontaines D.C. have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero’s Death (2020), the No. 1 Skinty Fia (2022) and the anarchic, kaleidoscopic Romance (2024). Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet: cold synthesiser tones, marching drums, samples and triggers, several songs with no guitars at all, and the swooning strings of 1960s Italian pop pulled into something synthetic. For guitarist Conor Curley, the aim was to break from the band’s own reference points: “I was trying to find stuff that pointed into the future.” It was made with James Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions.

“There’s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,” says Chatten. For their fifth album, Fontaines D.C. have built the chamber. What happens to the listener inside it will be the experiment.

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NEW ARRIVAL __________________▪️WEIRD NIGHTMAREHoopla (Loser Edition on Transparent Orange Vinyl) Every band worth its s...
02/10/2026

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▪️WEIRD NIGHTMARE
Hoopla
(Loser Edition on Transparent Orange Vinyl)

Every band worth its salt has a member who worked in a record store. In METZ, the fearless noise rock trio who released five full-length albums on Sub Pop between 2012 and 2024, it was singer and guitarist Alex Edkins. Slinging indie rock and hardcore records in his hometown record store while attending university, Edkins became an ardent student of rock ‘n’ roll from the psychedelic 1960s to the DIY 1990s and beyond. Hoopla, the catchy, melodic second LP from Edkins’s solo project Weird Nightmare, mixes and matches these influences in fun and exhilarating combinations, displaying his sophisticated musical mind. Bursting to life with hooks and earworms, Hoopla is that one tape that never gets ejected from the car stereo, but plays on repeat, soundtracking the summer. New and nostalgic at the same time, Hoopla will perk up your ears.

Weird Nightmare’s self-produced, and decidedly lo-fi, self-titled debut was recorded at home during the pandemic and released by Sub Pop in 2022. Weird Nightmare displayed Edkins’s indie rock sensibility, with a penchant for undeniable hooks and massive sing-along choruses.

NEW ARRIVAL _______________▪️BOY HARSHERGet Mean(Black Vinyl)GET MEAN is a meditation on love, loss, and survival. Acros...
01/10/2026

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▪️BOY HARSHER
Get Mean
(Black Vinyl)

GET MEAN is a meditation on love, loss, and survival. Across the record, Boy Harsher, the duo of Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, confronts grief and heartbreak head-on, tracing the difficult process of moving through loss and discovering a path toward renewal.

At its core, GET MEAN is a redemption album – a document of one of life’s most painful chapters and the strength found on the other side of it. 

NEW ARRIVAL ____________________▪️MØLDreamcrush (Limited Edition on Coke Bottle Green / Black Yolk Vinyl)Having dreams c...
30/09/2026

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▪️MØL
Dreamcrush
(Limited Edition on Coke Bottle Green / Black Yolk Vinyl)

Having dreams can sustain you - give you something to believe in - but the weight of expectation, the burden of reality can also mean that such dreams can become oppressive; they can just as easily shatter you. Denmark’s MØL explore the dichotomy of such dreams on their latest album, Dreamcrush, via Nuclear Blast. Informed by a series of disparate life events, the eleven tracks that make up the album are a tapestry of emotions, stitched together with threads of experiences that criss-cross over time and place.

MØL offer the opportunity to worship at whatever psychic temple resonates the most. Drawing influence from the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins and The Smashing Pumpkins, MØL pull a gossamer veil over their sharpest, most jagged edges whilst channeling big alt-rock hooks. Steeping even their most aggressive moment in melody creates an emotional dynamic that is the post-rock foundation for their most explosive sonic expressions to date. In amongst clouds of unfathomable loss and grief, Dreamcrush offers rays of almost unbearable hope - the option to keep on dreaming despite ourselves.

File under: Deafheaven, Nothing, Mew and Alcest

NEW ARRIVAL _________________▪️PLACEBO Placebo Re:Created (12" Gatefold Edition on Black Vinyl + White Bonus 7")Placebo ...
30/09/2026

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▪️PLACEBO
Placebo Re:Created (12" Gatefold Edition on Black Vinyl + White Bonus 7")

Placebo RE:CREATED is a definitive celebration of the 30th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album. Conceived as a "director’s cut," this project sees the band revisiting their original master tapes through the lens of three decades of live performance.

The release brings the record into the 21st century sonically, completing the album's vision while meticulously preserving its original integrity. It is a balance of modern evolution and preservation; a polished statement on the work that started it all.

NEW ARRIVAL / STAFF PICK _________▪️HAMMOKWhen Does This Place Become Our Scene (Limited Edition on Red Vinyl)On Hammok’...
27/09/2026

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▪️HAMMOK
When Does This Place Become Our Scene
(Limited Edition on Red Vinyl)

On Hammok’s new album When Does This Place Become Our Scene, the Oslo trio’s sophomore outing and first release for Sargent House, their noise-rock, hardcore, and metal foundations expand into broader, more dynamic territory. Industrial textures, hip-hop-informed rhythms, synth-led passages, and progressive structures surface alongside classic punk urgency, revealing a band equally invested in abrasion and atmosphere.

Produced by vocalist and guitarist Tobias Osland, the songs arrived in inspired bursts, even as the recording process proved painstaking. Tasked with refining and expanding their sound, Hammok tweaked and explored each track until it held all their competing impulses at once: music that feels volatile and immediate yet dense with hooks and layered detail. True to its title, When Does This Place Become Our Scene examines hardcore’s lineage and social politics while widening its focus to questions of belonging in an era shaped by the internet and hyperconnection. Balancing underground intensity with pop instinct, they arrived at an album equal parts scream-along cathartic and nod-along infectious.

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