Some bands need 100 people to make shit happen. French avant-thrash brutalists Warsawwasraw only need each other. Aww, right? John Anthony Huss (vocals, guitars, drones) and Mathieu Pierre Luckas Bétard (drums, percussions, vocals) are like that 1981 smooth R&B hit “Just the Two of Us.” “Just the two of us/building castles way on high,” I MORE…
After elementary school people stop liking me and I can’t tell why and I feel like I’m losing my mind. “Why don’t they like me?” I think. “They don’t know anything about me. I’m honest, kind to animals. I’m nice to my parents. I love to draw. What’s wrong with me?” I have a few MORE…
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 and Tijuana, Mexico. This trio is made up of Karlos MORE…
Over the course of its existence, the San Diego-based Cattle Decapitation has transformed from a stripped-down gore-grind side project of the arty hardcore/grindcore band The Locust to a full-fledged death metal band of their own, undergoing a confusing maze of lineup changes in the process. Their association with The Locust formed much of the original MORE…
It’s Friday afternoon. I’ve just had a negative COVID test and I’m listening to Swing Kids. I’ve also got the flu and an hour ago I got a flu shot and the woman who gave me the shot knew my books and asked whether I’m going on tour this fall. (The answer is yes, which MORE…
One of the hardest things is how friends drift away until they’re strangers. Middle school friends become faces in the hall by high school. High school friends walk past you like ghosts after graduation. Friends with whom you once confided your worst, ugliest secrets still live down the road, but you would never dream of MORE…
Six years ago a record came out on Three One G you might’ve missed. Motomonotono was released today (September, 15th) in 2015. Maybe you were up against a wall. Maybe shit was dumb or falling apart or maybe you were working 23.99 hours a day. Whatever went down it’s never too late (until it’s actually MORE…
Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channeling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace and sharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort of nasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos. Fueled by the onslaught of MORE…
Active 1994-2001, blazing coming-of-age hardcore from right by the border, RFYFL was Jason Weedon, Fernando Cruz (Bumbklaatt, Rail them to Death, Los Kagados, Agonista, Illegal Visions), Jef Shadoan (A.R.M – Anti-Repression-Music, features lyrics written by incarcerated persons to end the prison industrial complex) and Danny Calderon. The band survived as long as they could. Fighting MORE…
ZEALOT R.I.P – “Covered in Flies” video + The Extinction of You LP “Titled ‘Ambush Predator,’ the track is a minute-and-forty-three-second explosion that wraps the primal force of punk in a noisy, rickety and downright gnarly hardcore casing. In the video, the band rip through the song in a confined practice space, bringing to life MORE…