To celebrate the six-year anniversary of Hot Nerds’ fucking killer, brutal, weird Generic Plans for a New Blunder 7” EP, here is a list of 10 nonmusical things this nine-minute EP sounds like. 1) Hungry worms eating flesh sped up fast. 2) Asshole birds fighting in strobe light. 3) Power drill into face and/or wall MORE…

One of my favorite Retox shows was in St Louis in 2016 just months before the shitshow election that would go on to wreck the world. Connected to the venue (it was called Fubar) was a second (much larger) room and playing that second room at the same time as Retox was some sort of MORE…

Note: this is an excerpt from the Novel After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different Driving up the coast alone the week after graduation I pull off the road to stretch my legs at a scenic overlook and stare down at a valley of pine trees and distant mountains, a sunset like some pink spirit coming MORE…

2005 saw the Ipecac Recordings/Radio Surgery release of The Locust’s “Safety Second, Body Last,” the follow-up EP to their acclaimed album, “Plague Soundscapes.” The concept for SSBL has been explained as one 10-minute song split into two tracks, each of which is further dissected into separate movements. The result is a timeless sci-fi onslaught described MORE…

In the winter I read Adolfo Bioy Casares’ stories, Eve Babitz on LA, and medieval poetry concerning the death of Arthur. I sat at my glass-top table with the bookcase in front of me and stared at the wall of books in their white IKEA shelf and told myself, “I will do that too.” I MORE…

A List of Cool Shit About Some Girls’ Heaven’s Pregnant Teens LP, released 16 years ago today. 1) How progressive this shit felt in 2006. How progressive it feels now. It also felt exciting upon its release. If you were there, you knew the band was going places, or rather already had; they’d done this MORE…

Six years ago today, METZ’ Eraser 7” came out via Three One G and seven unlucky years later it’s a nice thing to come back to and revisit the fury and harsh freedom of its two songs. The title track, “Eraser,” is propulsive, dirty, squalling with feedback and distortion. It’s a thing that feels alive, MORE…

The concept of Cult and Culture began as a short segment created by Justin Pearson, an internationally known musician, record label owner (Three One G Records), author, and actor. He is best known as bassist/vocalist for bands such as Dead Cross, The Locust, and Retox. Justin has come to know and work with a broad MORE…

Make lists. When you don’t, you forget all the things you’re most meant to remember. Set the German cuckoo clock in the library and feel a sense of paranoia for the future, a tension gathering like clouds before a storm. Plan to start book work at the strike of the hour or wait for the MORE…

The oldest book you own. The last orange you ate and where you ate it. The stack of papers on your kitchen table. The first thought you had this morning and the last one you had last night. The condiments in your fridge and the way you never think of them. The abandoned house you MORE…