rock

  • With Sterilizer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Brandon Duncan explores some incredibly harsh industrial metal.

  • Famed alternative metal band Faith No More has just announced the latest in a string of comeback albums by bands whose artistic relevancy peaked in the 90s. The LP hasn’t been titled yet, and is currently being recorded in the band’s home state of California. A lot has

  • Famed alternative metal band Faith No More has just announced the latest in a string of comeback albums by bands whose artistic relevancy peaked in the 90s. The LP hasn’t been titled yet, and is currently being recorded in the band’s home state of California. A lot has

  • New York’s A Place To Bury Strangers has announced a new album for 2015, and they just dropped the first single, and it’s titled “Straight.” This is one of the most ferocious noise rock bands on the East Coast, and they live up to that reputation with rumbling

  • 8-bit

    Get Olde Second Wind by Crying I don’t know whether the point with Crying’s sound is to send people on a uniquely nostalgic trip back to the 90s, provide the weirdest backdrop for vocalist Elaiza Santos, or even a secret mission to get the world head banging to

  • indie

    These guys are almost here, I promise. The anticipation for their debut album brings to light one simple truth: Viet Cong know how to build hype the right way. A strong EP, quite a few scorching singles, and most importantly, quality music have the collective music world drooling for their

  • 2014

    Seeing Parkay Quarts, a.k.a. Parquet Courts, live at the intimate and classic venue DC9 will forever inform the way vocalist Andrew Savage’s singing reaches me. I’m not 100% certain, but I’m fairly sure that he alternated staring down members of the crowd while pummeling them

  • The magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn’t get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. These are the albums I touch down on: Killjoy Club – Reindeer Games Grouper – Ruins Wiley – Snakes

  • 2014

    Deerhoof compliments one of the most unsettling and noisy tunes on their latest record with a strange video about interconnectedness. We seem to have a few twin-like characters who share pain in the same way a one-way street shares traffic. Whatever happens to one seems to impact the other, and

  • If one thing can be said about Bim Thomas, a.k.a. Obnox, it’s that he’s come far–really far. Having gone from the ‘blues-grunge recorded on a four-track in his basement’ sound of debut album I’m Bleeding Now to the decidedly more proficient Louder Space, Obnox