Balms — s/t
It’s almost summer and time to hang out on the beach. Let Balms be your soundtrack. It’s got enough poppy energy for rocking…
noise rock
Shit and Shine — 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
This has been a terrific year so far for Rocket Recordings. Anyone who caught my review of the new Gnod triple album…
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…
Lightning Bolt — Fantasy Empire
Lightning Bolt has been ruining amplifiers and eardrums for over 20 years now, but their core sound hasn’t changed a whole lot…
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…
Trigger @ Deep Thoughts
TRIGGER (ex-GUERILLA TOSS, mems. of TREDICI BACCI) burst forth upon this burg of ours JUST THE OTHER DAY. Thee mightee Zs came…
KTB — KTB
Maybe you caught local gruesome twosome KTB opening for the likes of ICEAGE or PRIZEHOG. Maybe you caught them churning out one…
BOULDERS – ROCK N ROLL WILL NEVER DIE
Rock N Roll Will Never Die was recorded live in 2011 at the legendary Heinrich’s Workshop in Tampa. After all these years,…
GUERILLA TOSS/ WES KAPLAN – “The String”
So… I have pieced together part of this tale: Two New Year’s ago GUERILLA TOSS jammed at Mark Fede’s boss recording situation…
SPAY PAINT – CLEAN BLOOD, REGULAR ACID
Let’s talk ATX; more specifically about the Austin noise-rock trio SPRAY PAINT. Their new LP Clean Blood, Regular Acid is an exciting…
ON STAGE: BURNT SKULL
Outta sight second installment in CASEY HERZ’s ON STAGE series of close ups of performers maniacally doing their thing @ HASSLE FEST…
RASPBERRY BULBS – PRIVACY
On Privacy, NYC five-piece RASPBERRY BULBS (originally started as a solo black metal project by Marco Del Rio of BONE AWL) continue…
