“Obsession is a strong word,” says Matt Stephenson, Machine Girl’s founder and creative force. He prefers “fixation” as a descriptor for the way he’s steered his post-industrial, post-hardcore, ...

Machine Girl appear in our Winter 2024 Issue with cover stars L.S. Dunes, Wisp, Fall Out Boy x WWWYF, and Chase Atlantic. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. Machine Girl are kindred spirits of the ...

Content warning for depictions of mental illness and self-harm. If you’ve been following the online music scene since 2012 at the earliest, with “WLFGRL” being released two years later when Machine ...

Content warning for mental illness. If you’ve been following the Internet underground music scene, a band you’ve probably gotten shoved down your throat (for good reason) is the lauded and extreme ...

Bandleader Matt Stephensen once called Machine Girl “an agent of chaos; a positive force of destruction.” That becomes clearer with every album, and they’ve just announced their latest, Psycho Warrior ...