Music

Review: Cyness – Loony Planet/Industreality CD
Cyness Loony Planet/Industreality CD Sound Pollution I haven’t been into grindcore since the glory days of Napalm Death, Brutal Truth and Assuck. I guess I got sick of the constant barrage of noise in my old age and started listening to much catchier music in the way of 80s hardcore punk. Now that 80s-style

Review: Massgrav – Napalm Ofver Stureplan CD
Massgrav have a perfect punk-as-fuck vibe that comes natural to them but seems corny as hell coming from all those giant mohawk bands. … read more

Review: Misery – Production Thru Destruction
Misery know how to pour on the gloom and doom better than any heshers in Cannibal Corpse shirts because they’ve spent the last 15 years playing crust with enough metal to make a song interesting. … read more

Review: The Upwelling – Self-Titled
The songs on this 5 track EP are nice, they sore, they have a little rock in them and they have a mood that sometimes crosses Catherine Wheel with Elbow. … read more

Review: The Perishers – Let There Be Morning
The Perishers come sauntering in with a long list of hopefuls who would, if given the chance, knock that bloody crown off of Coldplay’s collective head. … read more

Review: Thee Heavenly Music Association – Shaping the Invisible
Caught somewhere between Curve and Garbage, the combination of Helen Storer and Dave Hillis produce a nice wall of distorted pop. … read more

Review: Great Lakes Myth Society – Self-Titled
These Great Lakes Myth Society are some strange hybrid of an American The Beautiful South, the bouncy happy sound that seems to roll out of Glasgow these days. … read more

Review: Random Hymns EP – GSL
Random Hymns drops you down the rabbit hole and dares you to climb out. It isn’t pretty. It isn’t supposed to be. … read more

Review: Mad E.P. – Eating Movies
Mad E.P. is completely uninhibited to experiment with hip-hop, piano keys, answering machine messages, flutes, cellos, street sounds, fist fights—you name it. … read more

Review: Brian Evanson with Xingu Hill & Tamarin – Altmann’s...
Brian Evanson with Xingu Hill & Tamarin Altmann’s Tongue Ant Zen Street: Out Now The spoken word project with Xingu Hill, Tamarin and author Brian Evanson has been in the works for quite some time now. When I first met the musicians in 2002, John Sellekaers of Xingu Hill had flown from Belgium to