Lead singer, multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creator, and unrepentant volume addict Timo Ellis (Yoko Ono, Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon, Joan As Police Woman, Spacehog) formed NETHERLANDS in 2010 in NYC. The band has since shared stages with Napalm Death, Melt Banana, Mutoid Man, Yob, Retox, Black Flag, Eyehategod, Flipper, Martin Rev, The Death Set, Moon Tooth, and MORE…
Sometimes I can’t believe how tired I am. After a week of war news, after hustling for money, running around desperate all day after day after day trying to “get things done.” Yesterday I learned Zelensky was the voice of Ukraine’s Paddington bear. I learned Russia has taken Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant and that MORE…
Haunted Horses is an industrial-punk trio hailing from Seattle, WA. Their sound is thunderous and chaotic, utilizing a wall of noise techniques through an onslaught of keys, guitars and drums. Myke Pelly’s off kilter drumming and Colin Dawson’s architectural noise structures create jittery post-punk that is both upbeat and gloomy. Most recently, the band enlisted MORE…
1 In the winter, the cold seeping through the windows and you sit on the couch and watch the snow fall and you wait. In the winter, at night, the sound of the snowplows scraping the road, distant, then closer. In the winter, ramen shortage, paper shortage, microchip shortage, lumber shortage. In the winter, the MORE…
Swing Kids – Anthology LP (Suicide Prevention Awareness Vinyl) Please note: A portion of the proceeds will be donated to suicide prevention organizations. This color variant is limited to 200 copies. Swing Kids formed in the mid 90’s out of a mix of obscure punk, hardcore, and geography-specific social politics. The band, made up of MORE…
Note: Listen to the audio version of this here. “Where no counsel is the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” Your friends will carry you home. You will get drunk and you will get sad and they will sit with you on gray curbs under yellow street lights and they MORE…
Note: this is an excerpt from the audio book cassette Voicemails from the Great Satan, released four years ago today on 2/16/18 In Albuquerque I slept in my clothes on the floor next to a painting as tall as me propped against the wall in an empty room. It was a black-haired girl’s face, tears MORE…
Some bands are better as a momentary flash than a career-sustaining slow-burn. (For the former, Joy Division, the Sex Pistols; the latterm, Nick Cave, Tom Waits.) There’s room for both in the world of course and maybe some things are better left transitory. The Plot’s time on Earth was brief yet vigorous. Their second record, MORE…
Excerpt from the novel, This is the End of Something But It’s Not the End of You by Adam Gnade, released by Three One G and Bread & Roses Press two years ago today, 2/14/2020 In Portland, in the daytime, I kept to myself in my bedroom or sat outside under the big walnut tree MORE…
Having just released their debut LP, Productive Disruption, in January of 2022, Deaf Club wasted no time in the relentless pursuit of perfecting sci fi crust punk from the future; the result is their newest EP, BAD SONGS FOREVER. Made up of 3 original tracks as well as a Pixies cover of “Broken Face”— Joey MORE…