Nü-klē-ər Blast Suntan — PROPHETIC VISIONS
Easily my top record of 2015 so far, Prophetic Visions, the second album from Nü-klē-ər Blast Suntan, finds the band at their…
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LATISHIA’S SKULL DRAWING
Latishia’s Skull Drawing is a new hardcore band out of Providence, RI and Philly, PA featuring 3/4s of The Ukiah Drag and…
Mystic Inane — “Eggs Onna Plate”
Following up last year’s Deep Creep 7”, New Orleans’ Mystic Inane have two new 7”s so far in 2015, the first of…
Foot Hair — s/t
Radical heaviness straight outta Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, FOOT HAIR wallow in the riff, drooling and dribbling their sludge metal scum hardcore…
Pure Impact, April 2015: Time for Spring Cleaning
Spring is here, so Damaged City Fest and New York’s Alright are just around the corner, featuring spatterings of Boston punk and hardcore…
Chicken Chain — Birth of the Googus
Total scum-punk/metal. Reminds me of the pit at punk shows in the ’90s (before a TOXIC NARCOTIC show took out my knee)….
Bad Noids — Rats Live On No Evil Star
Following up on their previous LP for Katorga Works, Cleveland scum punx Bad Noids are back with a new seven-song 7″ record….
Ajax — S/T 7″
A record whose bite is considerably worse than its bark. It’s condensed, fierce, and charged with as much socially pointed savagery as…
Goodbye, Fagettes
It was dusk on a winter day when I thought of the best band name. I had no band to speak of,…
GAS CHAMBER — STAINED HAND
SPHC have continued to step up their game, releasing some of the finest records in the various realms of punk and hardcore…
Preskool Dropouts — Demo Tape
They’ve got the choke-hold sound, they’ve got the sardonically self-abasing name, and they’ve got Will Killingsworth (a.k.a Will Kill) behind them. PRESKOOL…
Rectal Hygienics — Ultimate Purity
Rectal Hygienics are a Chicago noise-rock quartet with a sound indebted to AmRep and featuring members of other Chicago bands like Sea…
