As the week progresses, I feel the need to listen to harsher stuff. So I'm going to take this opportunity to abuse your ears with something from The Afternoon Gentlemen. Originally started 5 years ago with the intention of forming a non-serious grindcore band, this Leeds based gentlemen have gone on to release a string of splits, 73s and EPs and playing shows with Capitalist Casualties, Napalm Death and Eyehategod. The Afternoon Gentlemen fuse grind, fastcore and powerviolence, with dual screamy / low vocals but are known to indulge in doomy-sludgy sounds sometimes, like in the Afterdoom EP, where it [...]
Angel Olsen - "Creator, Destroyer" MP3/download First off, NEW ALBUM OF THE WEEK! Number 35, in fact, which means ... I really need to get my SHIT together and render this feature WEEKLY as opposed to ... whenever I have time. ... Continue reading
In my 20+ years of listening to metal/hardcore/etc, there are few records that have made a bigger impact on me than the "Cry Now, Cry Later" compilations. For those who aren't familiar, this series of four double-73 compilations collected some of the mid '90s most brutal and important grindcore/power violence bands, and I still listen [...]
Yeah... I know I know, posts have been a lot more scarce than usual. Thing is, shit has been completely crazy as of late. I am starting a new job, apartment searching, and trying not to get arrested by the city of Philadelphia for owning this fucking site (because they probably hate punk music). The only thing that keeps me calm is the fact that I say "at least I've got Kid Dynamite
This year I was fortunate enough to attend America’s most important metal festival, Baltimore’s Maryland Deathfest. Hosted by Sonar, this annual metal Mecca brings new bands to prominence, rising stars to the people, and legendary bands back to life. In the midst of all the heshing chaos of three days of what surely is too much metal for a thousand hands, I was able to interview three bands who are influential in many different ways. The first group I chatted with felt lost in their day, but have relatively recently been called, “the most influential grind [...]
Today 7:00 PM Buffalo Moon / Hildur Victoria @ Electric Fetus 8:30 PM DEVIN THE DUDE @ 7th Street Entry 9:00 PM The Vignettes (CD release), Little Dog on Top of A Big Dog, Seytanlar, Bombay Sweets 900 PM VERBAL ABUSE (CA), CAPITALIST CASUALTIES, FANG, COMPLETE WASTE, ANNALIESE
Hellnation - "War Report" MP3/download Hellnation - "Cycle of Shit" MP3/download Cyness - "Stein Not Stein" MP3/download Sayyadina - "My Say Shall Be the Last" MP3/download Massgrav - "Killar Med ..." MP3/download I'm gonna go ahead and christen Real Reggae my favorite new discovery via the Tomorrow Will Be Worse compilation - a 4X7-inch on [...]
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Various artists - "Mandatory Marathon" - Amendment Records It takes just the right kind of packaging to get me to pick up a punk compilation. Or Charles Bronson . "Mandatory Marathon" has C. Bronson AND a great b+w design straight outta the 1990s, so how could I resist? The fact that it also contains rough-housin' cuts from Capitalist Casualties , The Gooch [...]
TUCUMAN ARDE: COUNTER INFORMATION AND THE CREATION OF AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL MILITANCY If there is one thing in my short visit on this planet has taught me, is that the relationship between art and politics is a pretty much a hot mess on your chest. Some would say that without politics there can be no art, and others would take the vice-a-verse stance and tell you that without art - politics would suffer as well. I find that art and artists that wear the skin of the liberal activist are amongst some of the most [...]
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