It’s the end of spring and I’m reading Dickens’ Bleak House and a biography of him published 69 years ago. (I think of that often. THAT many years ago. Most anyone my age alive back then is dead. Dickens died in 1870. Do the math on that.) So, right, it’s the end of spring and MORE…
UNDER ATTACK is a band focused on “vicious precision hardcore” made up of vocalist Alex Copeland, guitarist Mark Telfian, bassist/vocalist Jason Hodges (Suppression, Oozing Meat), and drummer Dave Witte (Municipal Waste). Collectively, the band has an extensive “ex members of” list including Limp Wrist, Discordance Axis, Human Remains, Hail Mary, Eucharist, and many, many more. MORE…
I love vampire movies and I love vampire bats, but when motherfuckers want to bite me or suck my blood I lose my mind. Yesterday I found a snake’s skin in the grass and a tick embedded in the flesh of my stomach. I pulled the tick out. In a panic. In the heat of MORE…
Geronimo’s Nelson, Ruiz, and Francoso build worlds—immersive experiences that demand your undivided attention and require a good set of headphones or deafening volume to take it all in. Obsolete’s first track, the 16.26-minute “Quanah Parker,” sounds like the breath of a galaxy followed by an interstellar invasion. It’s heavy, sinister, and beautiful, building in intensity MORE…
A few weeks ago, I went outside late to bring the dogs back into the farmhouse. The night was pure black. Black without city lights, which is a special kind of dark—a deep, inky, velvet blackness. I wore a headlamp, and as I walked, the light of my lamp picked up the reflection of eyes MORE…
In 2013 I spent a lot of time driving around the country. I had a book that had been released at the end of the previous year, so I toured exhaustively, readings from one end of the country to the next, some good, most pretty bad. At the time I had Retox’s YPLL on CD, MORE…
Brent Asbury left San Diego ages ago, but the guy’s got history with the place. A former member of Optiganally Yours, Followers, Pinback, Schlag-Schlag, Thingy, Aspects of Physics, Alpha Males, and Goblin Cock, Brent now works as a producer/engineer in the Pacific Northwest, and has done work with some of punk rock’s finest (including the MORE…
SONIDO DE LA FRONTERA – “Cumbia Mundial” LP digital re-release Sonido De La Frontera is the combination of Soundsystem culture, hip hop production aesthetic, and the sounds of Latin America’s most prolific dance music: Cumbia. The result is a bass oriented, dance driven music with a sound unique to the border between San Diego, California MORE…
We stand around the kitchen and we talk about Palestine. How no one in this country cares. How no one is watching. And now Israel fires rockets at Lebanon? Outside it’s raining again. Raining so hard the day goes dark. The sky is green as bottle glass and the water runs down the kitchen windows, MORE…
Zealot R.I.P.’s self-titled EP is just over six minutes of heavy, fast metallic hardcore or maybe hardcore metal or metal with a hardcore heart. (Genre labels don’t matter. What’s important here are the songs.) These tracks from the band’s Three One G-released 12” EP are flawless, ripping, ruthless, barbaric little warriors that will remind you MORE…