Tagged: withdrawal

With Gingrich's devastating Floridian loss, once again I feel justified for naming this hardcore festival news roundup column Pit Romney. Here's what's new... Don't sell the Midwest short, as Chicago-based fest The Rumble has declared much of its 2012 lineup, with classic headline acts Negative Approach and Murphy's Law topping a bill with scene favorites [...]

Withdrawal hails from Cananda and is one of the bands that has most blatantly championed their allegiance to the "holy terror" sound and lyrical aesthetic in recent years. The "Unknown Misery" 7" (on Wendigo Records) mark's the band's first proper release, and displays a huge step up from their ...

• Withdrawal - Unknown Misery

American troops are pulling out of Baghdad and the bigger cities as I write this, prompting dance parties from the people and the oil companies to begin bidding on 20-year contracts for Iraq's potent oil reserves. "Baghdad's river-front parklands, which have been reclaimed this year after being deserted during the height of the insurgency and sectarian war, were last night transformed into outdoor dance venues, where audiences of around 3,000 – almost all of them men – danced to the strains of a recently returned Iraqi singer, Salah Hassan, exiled in Dubai for the past five [...]

My posts on politics have been sparse lately, mostly after Obama's inauguration. That is not because of a disinterest in the subject, but because the seeds are still being watered by this incumbent, per se. My support of Obama has left me with high hopes that are almost impossible to accomplish. To expect such fast and drastic change after 8 years of shit-throwing is unreasonable. The economy, I am told, has gone to the dumps in this post-Bush era we live in. All this talk of recession and crisis seems, to me, like a big figureheads way of trying to [...]

there was a ringing in my ear, sweet-sweet seductive bitter bean that exploits my behavior and eats my brain cavity one neuron at a time, every second of the morning as my insides decay and burn, I can only drink you down every delicious cup.... I am sorry to admit that I drink coffee every weekday.... Starbucks is bad , but I usually drink a cup by 6am..... Caribou coffee is much better, mainly because they originated from Minnesota... I know that I [...]