Music
Reviews: Highway Cross – Run Dry
Highway Cross sound like a grown up hardcore punk band. There are moments that have glimmers of Dag Nasty or Hüsker Dü in the eight minutes of charging guitars over semi-harsh vocals. … read more
Reviews: Hot Water Music – Live in Chicago
Hot Water Music = Small Brown Bike + Avail + Polar Bear Club
Recorded live over two nights shortly after these raspy-voiced rapscallions reunited following a two-year hiatus, Live in Chicago is an amazing document for hardcore HWM fans. … read more
Reviews: The Howl – Things I’ve Learned While Swallowing S...
What do you really get from a two-song release? In the case of Chicago-based The Howl, you get two songs, blow through them and then walk away with a serious case of musically induced blue balls. … read more
Reviews: Industrial Park – Self-Titled
I had to change the drive wheel on my turntable to listen to Industrial Park, and wasn’t looking forward to taking the time unless the experience would be worthwhile. … read more
Reviews: Infected Mushroom – Friends on Mushrooms Vol. 2
I was a bit confused when I first pressed play on Infected’s newest album, because it sounded like some slow trance love song, but then the beat drops and quickens and the Israeli duo blows your fucking mind. … read more
Reviews: Jamaican Queens – Wormfood
While more notable acts like Purity Ring and Sleigh Bells benefit from finer production, Jamaican Queens fall short in this area. … read more
Reviews: John Tole – Reign in Laughs
For a comic who calls himself the “Slayer of Comedy,” John Tole spends a paltry amount of his set discussing metal. … read more
Reviews: Lemuria – The Distance Is So Big
Masters of melancholy adorableness, Lemuria’s third LP sounds as though it could be a long-lost relic of early ‘90s indie rock—and that’s a good thing. … read more
Reviews: Lycus – Tempest
It’s clear that Lycus know and understand their influences rather well, combining an atonal USBM riffing style with long sections of legitimately heavy and atmospheric funeral doom. … read more
Reviews: Maps – Vicissitude
James Chapman, the force behind Maps, began these songs at his Northamptonshire home, the place where his Mercury Prize-nominated debut We Can Create was recorded. … read more