MISCHLINGE

Dark. An unpleasant conceptual journey through WWII era Germany, Following Orders creates a mood like virtually no other noise release I...

THE LAST MIX

Not actually the last Friday mix tape (though I have debated ending the weekly tradition), but a relic from the Milwaukee Mix Tape Exchange ...

BRUTAL GARDENERS

This wasn't my first band, but rather my first side project. After Dan left behind the brilliant ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O , moved f...

GRASSEATERS

I hated living in Oklahoma, even more in retrospect than I did at the time, but I still retain a strange affinity for my time there. If som...

AUTONOMY

There's something in the water in Carbondale, Illinois. Last time I was there I swung an axe at some dude's head. It was pretty fukk...

CONDITION

A buddy of mine was in town a few weeks ago, and we were talking music (not exactly an uncommon occurrence). He asked if I had heard CONDITI...

VVDBLK

I went to my least favorite bar in San Francisco the other night to see COPS (who ruled) and a couple of Japanese noise weirdos. Two piece G...

The Jaded Bovines "1986 Demo"

The Jaded Bovines were a legendary Cocoa Florida-based punk rock band who terrorized Florida's Space Coast roughly between 1984 and 1986...

Legionaire's Disease Band "Downtown 7 inch"

Released in '79, these Houston, Texas boys deliver an excellent slab of gorgeous punk slime with Nicki punk rock folklore, simple here;;...

Sewer Puppet "Frustrations"

1990 cassette demo, ripped from PNP worldwide establishment. Let the sludge begin. Formed out of North Carolina, they later went on to beco...

HEALTH HAZZARD

I suggest listening to the admittedly rough rehearsal tracks first, so you can get a handle on what HEALTH HAZZARD are  going for before you...

LATINOCORE

I've toured a lot. I've played shows in places that many people might consider weird or off the beaten path, and I consider myself v...

STRONGBLOOD

The apocalypse is apparently filled with primitive beats and cro magnon guitar riffing. The future is also apparently very evil, and it arri...

FEMALE SNAKE

Don't really care how many times these kids have listened to IRON LUNG (I'm guessing it numbers not in the dozens, but in the hundre...

ZERO POINT

In case you need a little context, these Danes appeared on the World Class Punk comp tape a couple of weeks back, and these songs came off ...

LIFE LOCK

Their influences are worn on their sleeve (or in this case, on the bottom of the jacket, under the studs) - brilliant DIS-worship from Singa...

LIGHT BRIGADE

Portland is as known for it's unrelenting walls of bulldozer crust as for it's rainy winters, and the city's ability to effortle...

ANAL WARHEAD // NEUTRON RATS

It's been way too long since I posted a tape from Albany , but most of my friends moving away from there apparently doesn't mean tha...

SOLO SE OYE PUNK VOL. 1

Wanna know one way to make a scene? Make mix tapes. Wanna know one reason why so many killer bands keep cropping up from the overlooked encl...

WOLFSNAP

Primitive, sinister and nasty music from this Oshkosh, Wisconsin two piece. As much as I liked this the first time I heard it, WOLFSNAP'...

LOST CHERREES

An hour long cassette filled with gems from LOST CHERREES. The band should need no introduction (essential female fronted '80s UK anarch...

CUCSIFAE

I mean, it was the '90s and there were no rules. You could sound however you wanted. DRIVE LIKE JEHU into pop punk? No sweat. Chaotic mi...

UNDERKLANSMEN

Howling and raw kvlt sounds that fall as close to primitive modern metal as they do to abrasive noisy punk. Repetitive riffs droning with a ...

VIOLENT CONSPIRACY

This is courtesy of the same dude who said he was the BLASTING AGENTS manager a few weeks back. Ultra low fi and only marginally competent ...

MY LAI

One of the many bands unfairly stacked in the dollar bins of the world, saddled with the mystifying "hardcore sucked in the '90s...

THE WILD BUNCH

As went the musical tastes of a large part of the underground in the mid '80s, so went the progression of cassette releases from seminal...

PLANNING FOR BURIAL

They call themselves slowcore, I call them experimental shoegazing gloom. Either way New York's PLANNING FOR BURIAL are about to be cal...

KANGRENA

I was super excited to get a friendly tip about the two KANGRENA cassette releases unearthed and available from Solo Para Punks  (they still...

BROWN SUGAR

After dropping one of 2011's sneakiest full length platters, it should come as no surprise to my ears that Buffalo's BROWN SUGAR ha...

EXTERMINACION

Just when you started to think that the US had cornered the market on foreign raw punk, enter Colombia's EXTERMINACION. Ramshackle bass,...

WASTED LOVE // D/CEREGHINI

Total fukkd sounds from Eastern Canada. My guess is that this was made in the winter when there was truly nothing else to do. Hamburger Tape...

BÜLD

More information about this band (or this release) would be welcomed. It came to me courtesy of a 25+ year old mix tape with nothing more th...

WORLD CLASS PUNK

Jakke handed this gem off to me when I was in New York a few weeks back, a brilliant picture of international early '80s hardcore and pu...

BRAINSTORM

Killer metallic crust punk from Belgrade (now Serbia, then Yugoslavia) most known internationally for their 1993 split with Japan's BATT...