VACATION

I'm leaving for tour today, so no posts for a while. I know that this will be difficult for all of you, but I am confident that you will...

BONEHOLE

Biting electronic drones. Disconcerting swells and crashes, dark and all encompassing with brief respites in the form of ambient angst. One ...

PERMACULTURE

Instantly hooked. PERMACULTURE harness urgent '80s UK anarcho punk (think FLUX, A-HEADS) but present their wares with the intensity and ...

FINISH BANDS

I suppose I could have done some research on this one, maybe dropped Markku a line to see if all of these bands are indeed even Finish (sic)...

CHIT CHAT

Smart, sharp airy garage sounds. Instantly hooked by surf influenced reverb drenched guitars and '60s garage psych by way of '80s fe...

THE MANUAL AND THE MACHINE

I posted their first tape a few months back, but San Francisco's THE MANUAL AND THE MACHINE have stepped up the weird for their second ...

SUB RATS//HABEMUS KAOS

Raw and ugly Spanish hardcore from the mid '00s. Ten tracks from SUB RATS, a disjointed romp through gruff vocals and primitive DBeat. H...

CRUTCHES

Bombastic Swedish hardcore in the classic CIMEX tradition. A wall of powerfully raw guitars cuts through the recording like a scythe and the...

VICIO

Absolutely blistering demo from 2000 delivered by crazed punks from Laredo, Texas. Whether these are influences or manifestations, I hear th...

DEVIATED INSTINCT

Four killer tracks tacked onto the end of a live set from 1985 (posted here). DEVIATED INSTINCT should need no introduction, but the uniniti...

LET THEM EAT PASTAS! LET THEM EAT SHIT!

Mid-90's international comp from the folks at Spock Productions. A few acts you are likely familiar with (WAT TYLER and THE GR'UPS d...

WOMEN OF THE PORE

The motherfukkrs at Hamburger Tapes just don't seem to have any boundaries whatsoever. WOMEN OF THE PORE dish out two beautifully hars...

SVÄTSOX

From the othe side of the tape that brought us the Oorwormer comp a couple of weeks back comes the essential debut full length from SVÄTSOX...

PUKEOID

Raw and nasty Midwestern hardcore in the ugly tradition of that glorious and beleaguered region. Eight songs in less than six minutes. There...

SYSTEMATIK

From the ashes of (or at least the guitarist of ) Vancouver's UNLEARN comes SYSTEMATIK. Lighting speed hardcore with searing guitars an...

SHIT

Who doesn't want to start their Sunday with 5 minutes of downtuned blackened crust/metal mayhem? Dummies, that's who. Since you are ...

ANDANADA 7

Two decades old, and still every bit as amazing as when it was released. On A Mala Hostia , Madrid's ANDANADA 7  (still active today, by...

BEATS

There is no sense in me pretending that I am anything approaching an expert on these sounds. Just three acts make up the A side of this mix ...

ROUGH ROPE

Yeah, I suppose I could go off on some tangent about that Amphetamine Reptile label and how the stuff from that sub/sub-genre still eclipses...

SIGNALS // ERODE AND DISAPPEAR

This is either a brilliantly executed noise release or a gorgeous mistake, but I present it to you today in the manner that I received it. S...

BLYTH POWER

Active since 1983, BLYTH POWER is the voice of drummer Joseph Porter (THE MOB, ZOUNDS) and is still active today. This band tastes to me the...

ASPEX

I'm not sure that fans of Mondays at The Escape can really ask for more than this. Members of KRUEL, DEAD NOISE, THE HELPLESS and others...

DIPPERS

Smart and snarky hardcore from New York City makes another visit to The Escape, one side live and one set of superb studio tracks this time ...

SKRAPYARD

Every bit as ugly and primitive as the neanderthal cover implies, SKRAPYARD plod through five tracks of gutter Oi that will make you questio...

OORWORMER

Three cheers for bored teenagers copying records onto cassette for their friends. Oorwormer is an essential 1982 anarcho/post punk comp fro...

SURROGATE ACTIVITY

I've posted some shit from these fools before, and since I love this band I'll post some more. As if THE GRUMPIES had somehow been t...

SHORT WALK

Urgh, a music war upon your face. Brutal and blistering shit attack from Milwaukee that will crush the shit out of your mind. Members of HOL...

LIABLE

Two nasty industrial dirges from LIABLE. I'm not going to try to read too much into this (or suggest that you read too much into this by...