The wind quit finally after blowing all day and the night is still. Out here on the prairie the wind blows hard and often, and it’ll wear you down. Nights like this? They’re what you want most. The windows open. The house quiet. I imagine the universe humming. Not singing or shouting or talking like MORE…
Let’s talk highlights. Seven tracks in almost seven minutes. Members of The Locust, Unbroken, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, and American Nightmare. Spattering blast beats and gruelling thrash. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs showing up on the title track. Colored vinyl paired with cover art that’s equal parts disturbing and MORE…
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 first full-length in five years. Silent has toured MORE…
This morning we woke up to snow. Fields of it stretching in all directions. Flakes falling from the gray sky. Alison left early after setting up the coffee and I did farm chores waiting for mine to cool. First the dogs outside to eat their breakfast. Then the chickens let into the field and the MORE…
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 first full-length in five years. Silent has toured MORE…
Released 17 years ago today as a collaboration with Strictly Amateur Films, This is Circumstantial Evidence is a powerhouse documentation of the Three One G universe. With artwork and animation by Sam McPheeters of Born Against and Men’s Recovery Project, the DVD collected live and studio tracks by Moving Units, Jenny Piccolo, Get Hustle, Cattle MORE…
There are many reasons you should check out Nick Zinner and Justin Pearson’s project More Pain. Here are seven of them. 1) This record was released two years ago today. Birthdays are fun. Light candles then blow them out. Eat cake. Celebrate good shit that has happened and do so whenever you can because bad MORE…
Put DJ crew Invisibl Skratch Piklz and Planet B on one record and you are given music that is like two comets crashing together, but instead of a terrible explosion, they become one giant comet and light up the sky like nothin’ you’ve ever seen. Opening with a Wesley Willis sample, this four-song collection features MORE…
It’s a tricky line to walk. You think about the future too often and you stop living in the present. You don’t think about the future enough and you will be ill-equipped to deal with the smallest problems of tomorrow. I run through disaster scenarios and I think of the worst possible thing that could MORE…
It’s April 5th. A rainstorm rolls in from the south, the wind blowing the grass in the fields, and the skies darkening over the low hills and woods. We are in the farmhouse—the rooms dark at noon like Victorian parlors. No, not like that. Like something else. This is no time except now, and ours. MORE…