Total Sham - "Total Sham" | Album Review
Total Sham dropped their self-titled label debut on Under the Gun Records. It's antagonistic in the extreme; with the kind of hostility you'd expect from an exasperated python, darting around violently with no care for its surroundings. In much the same vein as their hardcore predecessors, they run on maximum amplitude.
Gabby's World - "GABBY SWORD" | Album Review
Floral Print - "Ecco/Flipper" | Post-Trash Premiere
floral print’s guide to practical living and magical thinking, due out on May 17th via the trifecta of Rope Bridge Records, Bee Side Cassettes, and Pleasure Tapes, finds the band making up for lost time with a swirling mix of ever expanding ideas, structures, and experimental pop songs that really knows no bounds.
Joanna Sternberg - "I've Got Me" | Album Review
Tomato Flower - "No" | Album Review
The stem that once bent towards the sun has cold-snapped on Tomato Flower’s debut record, No. They bear a heavier sound, embracing racing riffs and delving into darker subject matter. Gone are their golden days, their early days of construction – the sun has set, it’s time to tear down and bring it all home for a dreamless night.
Debbie Dopamine - "Worried" | Post-Trash Premiere
Debbie Dopamine have been making their presence known with a shimmering intensity that produces unflinching insight into their world. On their new single "Worried," the band continue their propensity for deep diving into emotions only to come out the other side with a steely strength and empowerment that continues to bloom.
Marbled Eye - "Tonight" Video Premiere + "Read The Air" Track-By-Track Feature
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Cusp - "Thanks So Much"
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir: The Relentless Punks Celebrating Daegu Pride | Feature Interview
Yo La Tengo - "The Bunker Sessions" | Album Review
Forming in 1984 in Hoboken, the band has had a permanent line-up since 1992 with Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew. Their latest EP features live recordings from This Stupid World, as well as their old beloved track, “Stockholm Syndrome,” off their eighth album, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One.
Meatbodies - "Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom" | Album Review
Having trudged through the mud and now in a period of rebirth, Meatbodies newest album Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom presents strength in transparency. Things have changed, yet their spirit remains uncrushable. As possibly their most expansive and open project thus far, the band breathe fresh air into this stand-alone triumph.
Guitar - "Casting Spells On Turtlehead" | Album Review
Variety between and within all the songs gets at the main essence of Casting Spells at Turtlehead. The special quality of this release is how diverse the different parts are. The constantly shifting and jumping nature of the album creates this strange and enthralling experience that conjures up disjointed and hazy but familiar scenes.
Disintegration - "In Your Diary" | Post-Trash Premiere
Bedbug - "Pack Your Bags The Sun Is Growing" | Album Review
Nihiloceros - "Skipper" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Directed by Jen Meller, the video accompanies the storming tenacity and aggressive attitude that pours forth from the roaring beast that is Nihiloceros. The band have been treading their path in the NYC punk/underground scene for close to a decade now and haven't lost any of their bite and hostility as the track makes patently clear.
The Deals - "Freeway" | Post-Trash Premiere
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Skeletal Remains - "Fragments of the Ageless"
The Los Angeles based quartet are making death metal records the way they love them, raw, mountainous, and classic. Fragments of the Ageless, the band’s fifth album is a colossal homage to riffs… big fucking nasty riffs, riffs that shred, riffs with hooks, brilliant razor sharp riffs, riffs that decimate everything else to rubble.
Verity Den - "Live at Nightlight" | Post-Trash Premiere
With Verity Den’s record out now (via Amish Records), the band are getting ready to hit the road together, supporting Rosali, but before they do, they’ve shared “Live at Nightlight”. The live performance video captures the band playing both “Priest Boss” and “Prudence,” a pair of songs that highlight the different sides of their sound.
Sheer Mag - "Playing Favorites" | Album Review
To play something that people often define as “straightforward” pop pock of any kind is actually not that straightforward at all. If you add certain not so straightforward elements in there, no matter how small, you have to throw in a wrench at points to make it work. That is exactly what Sheer Mag do on their third album, Playing Favorites.