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…

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…