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…
Celebrate the Onslaught: Happy Birthday to Microwaves‘ Via Weightlessness LP, 9/28/18 Via Weightlessness is a great title for an album this heavy. This monstrous Pittsburgh noise-rock prog is harsh, tumultuous, driving, a riff-grinding behemoth of hot neon thrash, razor-sharp execution, and pummeling heaviness. What does this epic fucking album make you think of? Charging mammoths MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Short Novel in Serial Form Chapter 3, The Archangel and the Miata By Adam Gnade Agnes and Marigold left Gabby’s apartment and got in the car just as it began to rain. “Thanks for not making me sit in the car-seat,” said Marigold, pulling her safety belt across her MORE…
A good split 7” is a two-headed monster that instead of eating you makes you fall in love with it (awwww). Not only that, you fall in love with BOTH heads, and if the monster’s done its job, you fall in love with both heads equally. The Qui / Secret Fun Club 7”, released by MORE…
One of the keys to survival in the modern age is relentlessness. You can’t go with the flow anymore or you will be flowed over—like a village when the dam breaks. Fortune favors the active, the engaged, those able to do a fuck-ton at once and change directions quickly. WARSAWWASRAW’s Sensitizer LP, released six years MORE…
Swing Kids burned fast and bright and ended its run early with a small but volatile and beloved body of work. A Swing Kids song sounds like the band’s trajectory–fiery, tumbling, all youthful crash and burn paired with razor-sharp precision and impeccable timing. The Three One G-released “Situations on Mars” 7″, born on this day MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Short Novel in Serial Form Chapter 2, The Swan and the Pumpkin By Adam Gnade After Allen Kale told her about Gabby’s kidnapping, Agnes walked the four and a half blocks to the Golden Hill apartment Eddie Ramos shared with his sister Marigold, their cousins Flaca, Josy, and Roman, MORE…
Hail the God of Thunder and Sky: Happy birthday to ZEUS! Motomonotono, 9/15/15 On their Motomonotono LP, released this day five years ago, ZEUS! is a thunderous, unholy orchestra–a power current plugged directly into the side of your skull. It’s a monstrous, dynamic, tremendous assault, a two-headed electric eel in the tradition of likeminded devastators MORE…
Ode to a Pulverizer: Happy Birthday to WARSAWWASRAW’s “Jahiliya” 7”, 9/11/2011 Commercial by Displaced/Replaced Released on this day nine years ago, “Jahiliya” by WARSAWWASRAW begins as a pulverizing speed-vomit attack then slows into something approaching classic San Diego hardcore before beating your face in again. The French duo’s Three One G 7” single is a MORE…