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The music made by Savages, the four-piece London band who released their debut album Silence Yourself today, is a direct and linear thing.

This used to be what indie rock sounded like. During the 1990s, Elephant 6 and Belle And Sebastian were outliers, and the genre hadn't erased all traces of the get-in-the-van '80s hardcore that helped birth it.

A man alleged to be California's most active trader of child pornography was arrested Wednesday in an early morning raid on his Los Angeles home.

Oh haaay, Girls Against Boys is back. The New York-via-D.C. post-hardcore band, rested after a decade-long hiatus, has released a comeback single, the meaty "It's a Diamond Life." It's the band's first single since its 2002 LP You Can't Fight What You Can't See .

Girls Against Boys, aka GVSB, began as a studio lark for keyboardist Eli Janney and Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, both regulars on the Washington DC punk scene.