Released six years ago today, Doomsday Student’s A Walk Through Hysteria Park opens with what amounts to a car crash. Caught unaware, and with the volume up, it will give you a heart attack. But I guess that’s the goal. Doomsday Student traffics well in the sudden and the shrill, the combustible moments and the MORE…
Listening to Geronimo’s self-titled CD loud over a decent set of headphones can be life-changing, which is of course a word thrown around a lot, and a word that’s lost most of its meaning and helf, but climb into tracks like the 18-plus-minute “Firewater” or “Coyote” and you’re taken to places no other band will. MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Short Novel in Serial Form Chapter 6 of 13, Damien and Debsey By Adam Gnade A map first of the backyard—in the northeast corner of the rectangular plot a group stood gathered around the keg, including, but not limited to, Arcangelo Ramirez, his tough sister Norma (famous for her 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 few lineup changes in the process. Their association with The Locust formed much of the original basis for MORE…
I remember a certain feeling in the air at the time this record came out. In San Diego the year 2003 was an explosion of new bands forming, big tours booked, money handed out freely by labels and publishers, new media, friends writing books, visual art shows every weekend, club nights, new businesses hatched, new MORE…
Holy Molar messes with a weird dark magic on their side of this split with abrasive New York kings Ex Models. I don’t mean witchery or Harry Potter tricks. I’m talkin’ the strange, intangible “great” that all (most? many?) artists chase when putting together a new work. Not every pop song in the world is MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Short Novel in Serial Form Chapter 5, The Padre and the Witch By Adam Gnade Agnes and Marigold parked a block down from the Pirate Radio House then walked up the sidewalk through a canopy of trees toward the noise of the party. Across the street, groups of costumed MORE…
We recently announce the complete Anthology LP by Swing Kids on “Antifa” color vinyl, which is limited to 500. Since then, it has almost sold out so we are now announcing “Blue Note” blue and also smoke color vinyl, each is limited to 250. Pick up a copy from our web store before they all MORE…
The first thing you’ll notice about Deaf Club’s Contemporary Sickness 7″ is the beautiful, messed-up, horrific design job (a team-up by artists Jesse Draxler and Bran Black Moon). You’ll see the bloodsplatter and logo printed across the plastic slipcase in a sharp blast of red–or yellow, blue, green, because there are (what feels like) endless MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Short Novel in Serial Form Chapter 4, Turner and Hooch By Adam Gnade Driving up 30th from Golden Hill to North Park, the rain hammered against the windshield in wild, spraying gusts, the water sloshing off the sides as the wipers beat back and forth. Traffic crept along, the MORE…