Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Interview: Fatboi Sharif

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The worst is yet to come! In the chemo crystal ball, you can see the sickness oozing and pumping like crimson cataracts through the heart of...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Album Review: girlsbeinggirls - girlsbeinggirls

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Hardcore runs in cycles. Constantly in creative motion. You'd think this would tire it out, suck the air from its tires, and leave it l...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Interview: Celebration Guns

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Photo courtesy of We're Trying Records.  What everyone loves about emo music, myself included, is the ability that its players have to d...
Friday, September 18, 2026

Album Review: 鬱P - Perfect Persona

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The following is a vignette inspired by 鬱P's Perfect Persona : A bride, dressed all in white, inhales deeply before stepping through th...
Monday, September 14, 2026

Album Review: Merc - No One Leaves This Room

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The Sunday before last, a pretty prominent personality in the hardcore scene told me I needed to take the next day (Labor Day) off. No work....
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Album Review: Jealous Yellow - Czech Vampires

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Prague was the right city for Jealous Yellow's chief sonic summoner, Benjamin Rea, to find himself housebound, as he has now extended th...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Album Review: Swanwriter - Melodies of Despair

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Vancouver multi-instrumentalist Koda clearly conveys a fair warning about what to expect when cracking the casket on one of their releases u...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Album Review: MoonDoctoR & Surly - 10 Days in San Antonio

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I'll often listen to interviews with DJs for their music recommendations. DJs are essentially professional music appreciators, after al...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Interview: The Eradicator

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Listen up, pusshead! You ain't nobody unless you're somebody on the squash court! It is the ultimate game of manly endurance, speed,...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Album Review: Sistema de Entretenimiento - Arcade Punk

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Chongqing, China, one of the largest municipal districts in the world, may rightfully have laid claim to the title of Cyberpunk Capital, ear...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Album Review: Chuwi - Tierra

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Apparently there is a fair amount of hype around Puerto Rican electric plena quartet Chuwi, and it stems in part from their inclusion on a B...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Album Review: Forever ☆ - Second Gen Dream

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Wake up! There is a party raging on a cloud, and it's finally dipped low enough for you to hitch a ride. Kansas City's Forever ☆ hav...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Album Review: Shirley Scott - One For Me

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One for Me is literally One for Her , her being Shirley Scott, soul jazz pioneer and organist, and one of the few female bandleaders of the...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Album Review: Volatile Ways - Perfect Dark

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Commencing their warpath as a birthday gift from bassist Lewy Glass to vocalist Emily Beekmans, the group lives up to the premise of their ...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Album Review: Gun - Neo Notown

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It's hard to overstate the mythic position that guns have within the contemporary imagination. Sources of power and dispensers of fear, ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Album Review: Forests - That's Not Very Mid-Century Modern Of You

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Alright, what have we got here? Epic fantasy setting. Hell in space, or maybe an open-air dungeon sunk into the inner rim of a volcano. Anta...