Inside the club it’s very dark and crowded. The window to the courtyard is foggy from all the bodies in the room and the Locust is on stage, halfway through a minute-long song I love, then half a minute later the song is over. The band is all dyed black hair and denim, dirtbag glamour, MORE…
Venamoris was founded in 2021 by what can only be called astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of drums and production on the record, explains: “Several months MORE…
I want to tell you that it was one hell of a summer and I mean that in a bad way. Summer as hellish season—as death, grief, and displacement. In the opening credits to the Jeffersons, Ja’Net Dubois (standing in for [and in character as] George and Weezy Jefferson) sings, “Took a whole lot of MORE…
Drown In Emotion by Venamoris Venamoris – Drown In Emotion LP Founded in 2021, by what can only be called, astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris, as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of MORE…
There’s a road sign for a barbecue place called “the Rib Crib.” I say it out loud as we pass and she says, “Gross.” Winter fields passing—tawny yellow, a grayboard farmhouse leaning to ruin, bare trees, black powerlines veining the sky, a dead world but the bluest of skies. A dead world. Yeah. But spring MORE…
Founded in 2021, by what can only be called, astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris, as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of drums and production on the record, explains: “Several months after meeting MORE…
Note: excerpt from the novel After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different. Maybe you have a secret self, one that hides within your chest, is buried so deep inside there’s no trace to be seen. Sometimes that’s the nice you, the vulnerable you, the one who has been hurt so many times you burrow like a MORE…
Listening to Holy Molar feels like a homecoming. Not in the school dance sense but like a return to self, a path back to what made you (“you” being “me” but maybe “you” is also “you” reading this and, if so, hey buddy). Life is of course chaotic, shitty, and dumb. I firmly believe that MORE…
Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing, Volente Beach) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with MORE…
I firmly believe that to get through the dumb nightmare of modern life you need a toolbox. You need tools to fix, mend, straighten, remediate. You also need the tools of destruction. There’s some cool weird magic that Deaf Club’s LP was recorded the day of the Capitol insurrection. These 14 smart-bombs stand in stark MORE…