loud

  • One of New York hip hop's unalloyed masterpieces.

  • clipping. lives up to hip hop tradition and pushes “noise hop” unorthodoxy on their sophomore album.

  • empty

    Empty by Orphan Donor Recording for Allentown grindcore quartet Orphan Donor’s new EP Empty apparently took place over the course of three years – starting in January 2011, in a barn, and ending in November 2013, in a basement. Clocking in at a seemingly meager 15 minutes, Empty might just

  • 2013

    West Coast shoegaze outfit Whirr have dropped a new track, which will be featured on the band’s next EP on Graveface in September. The group released their second full-length early last year, which I missed, sadly. However, it’s looking like this new EP, Around, is going to bring

  • 2013

    Stream: Cough – “Athame” This is just filthy, absolutely dirty, 18 minutes of rolling around in sludge and now I need a shower, desperately. As you can imagine the song builds at an incredibly slow pace, but when the guitars start swirling and the vocals repeating about black altars and sacrifice

  • chaos

    What we have here is a pretty interesting international collaboration between two hardcore bands Loma Prieta from the Bay Area of the U.S and Raein who hail from Italy. They’re both due to be featured on a forthcoming split on Deathwish. What we get from them is what

  • 10

    Split 10” Plebeian Grandstand/Cortez by Cortez Combining elements of post-hardcore and sludge metal, the bands Plebian Grandstand and Cortez basically challenge one another in a minute-for-minute battle of dissonance and volume on this new split 10″. Each band delivers its own 12-minute song on this thing, and each of

  • 2012

    I think there’s more than one Ty Segall walking the planet right now or something, because the California garage rocker is about to drop his third–yes, third–project this year. His previous two releases were great, rowdy rock records, and it’ll be exciting to see if he

  • 2012

    A lot like the band Torche with its latest album, Harmonicraft, sludgesters Baroness seem to be moving their heavy rock sound into more accessible territory. “Take My Bones Away” is the first track to drop from the band’s forthcoming Yellow & Green album, which will be out on Relapse