The Festival of Dead Deer’s only LP scared the shit out of me the first time I heard it. It is a menacing record, ominous, and I’d been awake for a very long time. I was living dumb, punk-romantic, and broke-as-fuck in Portland, having left San Diego at the beginning of the year. Two months MORE…
I said I wasn’t going to leave the house during Fourth of July weekend because people lose their minds on the Fourth, but then a little black kitten showed up in our field yesterday and we needed things for him. Got to the stripmall Petsmart just after a shooting happened. The cops were putting down MORE…
It’s hard to believe the Crimson Curse’s Greatest Hits collection came out two decades ago. But it makes sense too, at least on a personal level. Songs like “Goldfish,” “Both Feet in the Grave,” and “Funeral Empire” have been in my blood for so long they’re a part of who I am, of where I’m MORE…
Sometimes being human is shit. It’s shit because of how we treat each other. It’s shit because of the way we carry our pain for years in silent anguish then dump it on those closest to us in order to hurt them. We feel bad and we want to make others feel that way too 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…
Note: excerpt from an in-progress novel. Sometimes when you’re young enough you forget the place you’re in is not your home. Something like: “I have been here longer than I can remember and because of that this is where I live.” The story that goes with this idea: We have been in Mexico longer than MORE…
SILENT “Empty Spaces” from the album, Modern Hate Silent was founded in Mexicali, Baja California in 2015. The band released their first LP, “A Century of Abuse”, on Three One G Records the following year. Since, they have only released a cover of The Cure’s “Prayers for Rain”, making this long-awaited upcoming sophomore LP their MORE…
Sometimes you forget people entirely. Maybe that’s self-preservative. We can only hold so much at once. Fill a bucket beyond capacity and no matter how big it is it will eventually overflow. But then sometimes they come back. They rise up in your memory from the blackness like a corpse surfacing in a dark pond, MORE…