Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Album Review: Chicago Crowd Surfer Round Up - May & June

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Chicago Crowd Surfer is running a handful of my reviews from earlier this spring. You can find links to each below.  Helen Money - Atomic  H...

Album Review: Xibalba - Años en Infierno

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Scene Point Blank is running my review of the new Xibalba album,  Años en Infierno or "Years in Hell." It's a perfectly title...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Album Review: Tithe - Penance

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There are a lot of metal bands who have come to embrace the void-walker motif. The vision of a robed, often faceless figure, possessed of ar...

Album Review: Muzzle - Demo

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Rough, raw, and aggressive. Muzzle is a sizzling pan of grease-fire distortion and rail-jumping, roller-coasting, garage rock grooves. I har...

Album Review: Ripped to Shreds - 亂

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California's death and grind gladiator Andrew Lee sounds more cohesive and masterful than ever before on his latest LP with Ripped to Sh...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Album Review: Krv - Krv

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Krv is a French black metal band with some pretty shameless dance-metal influences, comprised of vocalist Nicolas Zivkovich and multi-in...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Album Review: Buscabulla - Regresa

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I have a new column running on CHIRP Radio's blog. We're calling it Critical Rotation! Twice a month I dive into two albums tha...

Album Review: Nick Hakim - Will This Make Me Good

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I have a new column running on CHIRP Radio's blog. We're calling it Critical Rotation! Twice a month I dive into two albums that are...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Album Review: Sweet Spirit - Trinidad

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Sweet Spirit is a band modeled after the last great American rock band.* However reminiscent their sound may be of other bands who have cont...

Album Review: Dan Drohan - You’re a Crusher / drocan!

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Dan Drohan is a talented and versatile performer, probably best knows for providing beats and production expertise to various outfits within...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Album Review: Died - Less Life

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Scene Point Blank is running my review of the new Died record Less Life today. The band has really changed their sound for this release and...

Album Review: Yawners - Just Calm Down

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Sometimes to find really great pop-punk you've got to go abroad. I've got a review of last year's sweet and sunny, tender emo-co...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Interview: Bev Rage

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Photo Credit: Bev Rage For the latest edition of CHIRP's Shelter in Sound series, I sat down with Bev Rage of Bev Rage and the Drinks to...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Album Review - clipping. - Chapter 319 Single

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This Juneteenth LA noise and hip-hop artists clipping. have released their single Chapter 319 via Bandcamp. It is one of the most immediate...

Album Review: End It - One Way Track EP

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Baltimore’s End It is the kind of band that hardcore exists to give a voice to. Honest, self-critical, anti-racist and suspicious of authori...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Album Review: Neckbeard Deathcamp / Closet Witch / Racetraitor / Haggathorn 4 Way Split EP

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Racetraitor's vocalist Mani Mostofi is a fan of split EPs. In a statement on To Live a Lite Record's blog, he reflects on the format...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Album Review: Green / Blue - Green / Blue

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There are times when I really miss the music of my youth. Hours spent cruising between my miserably home town to shows in Milwaukee, Chicago...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Album Review: Cro-Mags - In the Beginning

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Harley Flanagan is back my dudes. After 20 years and some weird legal/band drama, Flanagan is back with another fucking killer Cro-Mags albu...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Album Review: Funeral Leech - Death Meditation

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I have a soft, rotten depression in my heart where I keep my love of death-doom. And in a year where we were fortunate enough to get a Parad...

Album Review: Jamo Gang - Walking with Lions

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Jamo Gang is ready to claim the pride land back from those chuckle-headed hyenas and pretty boy, sad-sack, alligator-tear dropping Soundclou...

Album Review: Twisted Horror Split w/ Exhumed & Gruesome

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Would you look at that, Matt Harvey put out a split with himself. Harvey has been extremely busy the last few years (he’s always been busy, ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Album Review: Jonah Mutono - GREG

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I feel like the best gospel-R’nB comes out of the UK. Maybe it’s their distance from the source and religious origins of the music that make...

Album Review: Let It Come Down - Songs We Sing In Our Dreams

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                                         It appears that Shimmy Disc is back from suspended project hell. Over a decade after the owner and ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Album Review: Nicole Mitchell and Moor Mother - Offering - Live at Le Guess Who

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Receiving a wide physical release two years after its inception, Moor Mother’s performance with flutist Nicole Mitchell at the 2018 Le Guess...

Album Review: Ratboys - Printer’s Devil

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Wilco kinda came out of nowhere. I’m sure I now have a dozen nerds presently rushing to “@ me” with a tedious “well, actually” essay-len...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Album Review: Chepang – Chatta

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If there was ever an instrument that most people would assume grindcore could do without, it would probably be the saxophone. But here c...

Album Review: Revenge - Strike.Smother.Dehumanize

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J. Read is back to put the boots to you with another blitz of raw black metal, this one titled  Strike.Smother.Dehumanize . It's slightl...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Album Review: Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind

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A space with no volume. Geography with no border. A body that displaces no air. A room too large to see the far wall with the naked eye but ...