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Comparing a band’s sound to pre-existing bands is pretty dangerous. It creates an expectation right off the bat. One is practically setting themselves up...
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Punk and hardcore musicians are often whimsical about their creative endeavors. Especially for established musicians who can write fast and lay down competent recordings...
Mad at the world: 10 of the best Powerviolence records of 2023 Thanks to the this year’s miraculous, “has there been a glitch in...
When one can step back, as a writer, as a musician, as a fan, away from the seemingly endless surge of new releases and...
In 1965, when Gordon E. Moore observed that microchip transistors doubled approximately every two years, it’s impossible that he could have forseen that the...
Comparing a band’s sound to pre-existing bands is pretty dangerous. It creates an expectation right off the bat. One is practically setting themselves up...
I was fortunate enough to find out about Blood Bright Star when they released their split album with High Aura’d (which you should also...
Code Orange returns, though not as kids, but rather as a furious, new entity with its older, familiar parts grafted on seamlessly. 2012’s Love...
Label: DRY COUGH Records What is there really left to say when you’re confronted with an EP cover depicting a hideous montage of misery...
As has been proven for decades now, California’s Bay Area has given rise to a host of black metal bands, among them Weakling, Leviathan...
Label: SENTIENT RUIN LABORATORIES In chapter sixteen of “Psychomagic” — subtitled ‘Techniques For The Imagination’ — Jodorowsky writes: “This I am not recommending to you, although I do...