Hardcore punkers Total Abuse released their third album, "Prison Sweat", this week on Post Present Medium . I've yet to read a single review of this record that didn't mention Rollins era Black Flag at least once (now i've done it too!), but that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. With this album you get seven tracks of late-80s influenced hardcore punk, super noisy and raw, just the way we like it. The vinyl is limited to just 500 copies, with the first 100 on white vinyl. This one will set [...]
Date 1/11/11 Location Mohawk Doors 6:30pm Tickets $10 @ Frontgate Indie giants No Age are stopping into Austin at The Mohawk on Tuesday night. Joining the boys on stage are Rene Hell and locals Total Abuse . Show starts pretty early so make sure you don't miss anything. Download: No Age [...]
It looks like the guys in Total Abuse wont be enjoying their European Tour: " ...if anyone can help us please email at brooksrkelley@gmail.com all our shows have been INCREDIBLE and positive. thanks so much to all the people who cooked for us, let us stay at their place and booked the show. i'm sorry this had to end. we are all CRUSHED...." The details of why exactly ther tour got cancelled can be read here, check out the video of Total Abuse preforming [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 009 with freebie downloads for songs by bands including Hollerado, Tokyo Police Club, Yeasayer, The Gaslight Anthem, Mogwai, Hot Hot Heat, Brian Dunn and more! So much more! DATE: 05-26-10 WRITER: Don Loder Hey there you little scavengers o' human decency, So what's goin' on? Whaddaya need this week? I'm feeling a little charitable to you because it's comin' up on summertime. You know summer? Not that girl up the street that cuts her bags of China [...]
MP3: Total Abuse - 14 Years Old Whew. Total Abuse are back with a new lp titled "Mutt" and it is expectedly radical. It's out now from the record breaking PPM on vinyl and comes with a zine and digital download to boot (bux bangin'). 80's hardcore noise set in today's future. Or something. Writing is hard, just listen to music.
You may know Dean Spunt as one 1/2 of No Age , or perhaps you know him as one of the guys behind PPM records. He sent us these answers in this next installment of q and also a . q: What is the last song you (really) heard? a: I'm Still In Love (lala link) by Disco Inferno q: What is your favorite food? a: Brown rice [...]
After a night of two NYC area shows (including one at 3:30 AM), going to Coney Island and seeing two girls get into a sunrise fight (one got her weave hooked and ripped out by nail on a Boardwalk plank) and not a second to nap, Austin's Total Abuse arrived at the WFMU studios for some H & H bagel breakfast and a couple minutes to sit down before plugging in and lighting the fuse up once again for Brian Turner's show . 15 minutes of Black Flag/Void inspired ugliness, captured in our walls by engineer Trent [...]
MP3: Total Abuse - Secrets Fuck yeah Total Abuse ! This song, "Secrets" paints a picture of bitter jealousy and betrayal, leading to blood on the sheets. Hope to see more real soon from this class act. It's a hit!
The Singles Collection is contributor Jason Jackowiak's weekly column focusing on rare and essential 7″ releases. We gladly accept all types of 7″ for consideration. After a brief hiatus last week (we were, as Bill Murray says in Caddyshack , " Unavoidably Detained") we're back with a selection of decidedly anti-summer anthems. Now, we're not anti-summer, far from it, but seems we've largely been rotting your teeth out with sugary pop confections for the past few months, so it's time to get that tinnitus rattling around again, just in [...]
hey buddies! I gotta do this chronologically and then do my lists and shit later. Its the only way. I saw so many fucking great bands. Pushed my body and soul to the limit, and then on Saturday everything just went bonkers. Someone pressed the "Fuck It" button, and by someone I mean, life. Life, man....Life. But, what a blast!! Tuesday: SXSW felt like it started in earnest once we had house guests. I was doing prep work the past 5 days straight on, just wracking my brain [...]
The Singles Collection is contributor Jason Jackowiak 's weekly column focusing on rare and essential 7″ releases. This week on the Singles Collection we're headed down to the Lonestar State, specifically to its capitol, Austin, where they're currently dredging up some of the best modern hardcore to be found anywhere on the planet. It's almost an embarrassment of riches down there, and we're only scratching the surface here, so let's stop wasting time and get to the action. Getting us going this week is the newest [...]
Modern day hardcore bands namedropping Void, Negative Approach and Die Kreuzen automatically throw down the money-where-your-mouth-is gauntlet, so when Austin's Total Abuse does all that and then the singer talks about how he likes to hide behind a wall of power electronics noise and intone to the audience dictator-like, I am skeptical. But with the new weed of HC bands like Fucked Up and Sex Vid (covering the Dead C for heavens sake) the combo of select history lessons in sound vs. conceptual rulebook out the window can't be anything but a kool and [...]
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