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…
If less truly is more, then Warsawwasraw’s Jahiliya 7” is an odyssey. This epic single-track record does a lot in four minutes and 46 seconds. “Jahiliya” is an avant garde hardcore 17-course meal where you go through more changes than David Bowie and at the end of the meal your heart explodes in a happy MORE…
In a perfect world they would play All Leather at clubs. In a perfect world clubs would be fun and you wouldn’t wanna drop out of society or hide in a fucking box after going to one. In a perfect world this would be on dance music radio stations. But maybe in a perfect world MORE…
It was the last day of summer and Joey wanted me to drive him to Mission Beach so he could buy acid from “this weird guy Santos.” It was the last day of summer and the sky in San Diego looked as gray as a burial shroud. It was the last day of summer and MORE…
Some bands write songs and some create worlds. The universe built by Chicago’s Paper Mice is some kind of claymation fantasy nightmare full of strange animals and shiny, silver objects in the sky. It’s half children’s book, half acid trip. Paper Mice’s songs are stories where you never know what’s around the next bend. A MORE…
Five years later Julia and I went to Mexico for Valentine’s weekend as a last-ditch effort to save our relationship. Looking back, I spent a lot of my early 20s trying to save relationships that weren’t worth the trouble. I think I knew this at the time—some part of me must have—still, I soldiered on, MORE…
Zealot R.I.P. started years ago when life-long friends, Jason Hamacher (Frodus, Battery, CombatWoundedVeteran) & Mike Schleibaum, decided to collaborate and write music that’s fast and heavy. Between Schleibaum’s relentless touring in Darkest Hour and Hamacher’s extensive documentary work in Syria, it took a few years for them to settle into a sound that’s somewhere between MORE…
In Tiny Mix Tapes’ 2004 review of this split, the reviewer ends their wrap-up with, “Please, guys, pick up your guitars.” TMT did not like this record. Said it wasn’t catchy, loud (what, like, volume?), fast, or danceable. It’s the kind of one-star review that makes you want to buy the record, so thanks? This MORE…