Friday, June 5, 2026

Album Review: Studio_Dad - Endless Summer Vol. 1

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I bet you wish you had a cool Studio_Dad instead of a lame regular Dad. While Studio_Dad is a slick producer, running a label out of San Fra...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Interview: Heavy Metal Chess Club

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Courtesy of We're Trying Records The other day I was listening to an interview with a Japanese musician, and she was describing her expe...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Album Review: Cult Leader - A Patient Man

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Pain-stricken hardcore out of Salt Lake City. That's pretty much the whole bag of worms, but I digress... Cult Leader began their ascent...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Album Review: My Point of You - This is My First Heist

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What can be said of you, from another's point of view? What is another from your standpoint? Overlapping and distinct prognoses that non...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Album Review: Blind Justice - No Matter the Cost

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Blind Justice is a hardcore band from New Jersey, and I'm pretty sure they only have two albums: 2015's Undertow and 2017's No ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Album Review: Hiro Ama - Booster Pack EP

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I chanced upon a book compiling '90s rave posters from Japan the other day, and it was pretty exciting. The use of color, and often lack...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Album Review: Ex Eye - Ex Eye

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Welcome to Number of the Beef- the only late-night metal hash dealer this side of the river Styx. We got three hot plates here for you knuck...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Album Review: Tequila Mockingbird - You Always Felt Lost

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Harper Lee wrote that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because of its inherent innocence. To snuff out a mockingbird is to silence a creatu...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

Album Review: Lobsterfight - My Coat Hanger Is A Necklace

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My Coat Hanger Is a Necklace because I'm always just hangin' around. It's not uncommon to be mistaken for a piece of furniture....
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Album Review: Expulsion - Nightmare Future

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Expulsion is the womb-pest of Matt Olivio, guitarist of grindcore legends Repulsion. It sounds like it too! Mean, ugly, thrashy, and well......
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Album Review: 32-Bit Operator - Trial Run

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Crunchy, exuberant, and charmingly ambitious, 32-Bit operator is the pint-sized, rock-opera revue baked like a trapped, diminutive tempest w...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

Album Review: Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa - Are Euphoria

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Am I writing a review of Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa's collaborative LP Are Euphoria because I'm putting off drafting a retrosp...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Interview: Paida

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When you're an intergalactic pop sensation, and you come across a planet on the verge of catastrophic ecological and psycho-social colla...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Album Review: Bad Breeding - Blood Manifest

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Born in a concrete council block crib, Bad Breeding is anarcho hardcore out of Stevenage, UK. Part Discharge, part Amebix, flush with a rutt...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Album Review: Telesonic 9000 - E.C.H.O.

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Are you ready for a new technotronic age? An eon of telescoping, infinite horizons that slices through the staid film of the possible like a...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Album Review: Etienne Charles - Gullah Roots

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Well, I'm glad that I picked up Gullah Roots from an all-star jazz man, Etienne Charles, as it has confirmed an aspect of my childhood...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Album Review: Creeping Death - Boundless Domain

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Texas, man, it's a whole different kind of place. While the Midwest is still sheltering itself from the last blizzardly breaths of winte...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Album Review: Kadavar - Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin

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Do you know what it's like to split your face like a dinner plate and serve the hot, fresh sponge cake of your reverie as it oozes out o...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Album Review: Plax - Clean Feeling

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An Austin-based, self-described "outsider" punk band, Plax is comprised of seasoned area punks who cut their teeth playing in loca...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Album Review: Pacifica - In Your Face!

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The story of the band Pacifica- the music duo, not the city in California, or the mean girl from Gravity Falls-  is all about the global rea...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Album Review: Dreadnought - The Endless

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Big fan of the cover art for this one. Even bigger fan of the fact that the music matches the cover in its majesty and complexity. The Endl...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Interview: Michael Torres of Beers with Bands

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It might shock some of you all to learn this, but I almost never listen to music-related podcasts, and I'm specifically averse to artis...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Album Review: Castle - Evil Remains

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 Wayward, witchy, doom metal from San Francisco that draws in equal part from occult preoccupations of proto-metallers Coven as it does croo...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Interview: Cheem

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Photo by Abby Clare Cheem may be the best band in the world. There really isn't even a contest. Hardworking, original, and friendly af, ...