TWENTY YEARS ON - THE SUMMER OF LOVE?

45 minutes of varied material from one side of this compilation cassette (the flip side was destroyed well beyond listenability).  An acoust...

PSYCHIC BLOOD

Obviously PSYCHIC BLOOD have done a considerable amount of research into late '80s guitar driven alternative rock since their first demo...

DEHUMANIZED

After watching HYSTERICS and GRIMACE melt my face two nights in a row, it seemed logical to share some Northwest love. DEHUMANIZED feature H...

NOTHING

This is some genuine Other Music shit right here. Synths, erratic drums and sound collages combine to create something way outside of conven...

TOTAL FUCKER

Total intense noise raid. Anguished, manic bursts of completely blown out Japan influenced noise crust from members of NEGATIVE STANDARDS, H...

DECADENCE WITHIN

There's more history here if you like, but Ledbury's DECADENCE WITHIN kicked around in various forms from the mid '80s to the m...

VOIGHT•KAMPFF

It's no secret that punks have taken to looking to the dreary sounds of decades past, but the nucleus of VOIGHT•KAMPFF have been working...

KENYA & TANZANIA: WITCHCRAFT AND RITUAL MUSIC

So I got this big ass tub of live tapes from Buzz a couple of weeks ago - a a hundred or so live recordings of shows from Mission Records fr...

HEDGEFUND

'80s influenced east coast hardcore, but infected with the mean disease. The inward kind of mean that doesn't say "I'm goin...

BELLOW

This one came to The Escape along with many kind words about past projects and current endeavors, and I confess that I put off listening to ...

RUIDOSA INMUNDICIA

Some bands explode and before you know it there are a mountain of releases scattered all over the world and your excitement about this new a...

ITANSHA

Nothing to say except that this will destroy you. A one man band featuring the guitarist of YADOKAI, MORPHEME, VACCUUM and others, this nine...

STARES

These dudes make their magic in the room across from me in a basement on Turk St. in one of this fine city's more decrepit neighborhoods...

MICHAEL STEARNS

This is all the tape said: ENCOUNTER. And when I started listening, expecting to hear some run of the mill mix tape packed with unknown ...

SNASEKILKOOLDLOUWTEBAHPLAEHTFOTRAPTAHWSISIHTSP

When I moved to Milwaukee in 2002 I was excited to hang out with several folks I had known casually for most of the previous decade - some o...

SIN APOYO // BIOFILO PANCLASTA

BIOFILO PANCLASTA are a freight train. Ramming speed male/female fronted crust, a dozen songs fly by in less than eight minutes and the inte...

OiL!

I don't remember how the conversation started. I knew Neal only casually from reviewing records at neighboring computers, and I can'...

Festival-Tip fürs Wochenende !! 30 Jahre Juzi Göttingen !!

IN SCHOOL

New York's IN SCHOOL have politely blown the ignorant hardcore paradigm out of the water in less than eight and a half minutes. If you w...

THE FLOOR ABOVE

I was drawn instantly to these insane sounds. Raw and hollow hardcore from Tennessee played with absolute fury and determination - clean gui...

BASE APES

This is small town 1980s. Waynesville, Missouri isn't quite the middle of nowhere - the famous Route 66 cruises leisurely through the da...

The Lewd "Kill Yourself...Again" Discography + Extra Tracks!!!

This is a great compilation and kind of discography of The Lewd.  I could never sum up in words and do justice to this band's music.  Gr...

FATHER IGNORANT

I saw 10 bands during a 24 hour stretch Thursday and Friday, and strangely all of them were at least good. Some of them were really outstand...

DILÖNIS

(stock blank tape image from the Terminal Escape archives) DILÖNIS had one track on the Latvian Underground '93 tape I posted last week...

DEN

Waves of sonic aggression in the form of space age electronic sounds doing battle with ferocious noise rock bass and drums. Sporadic vocals ...

BLACK HOLE KIDS

Posted to me a few months ago by a kind F.O.T.E., this is a two song taster from Birmingham, Alabama's BLACK HOLE KIDS . Steeped in ...

REACCIÓN

Chicago in the mid '00s was pretty bad ass. I lived in Milwaukee and made the 90 mile drive countless times for shows (and often food). ...

LIFEFORM

Flanged bass, comically shouted vocals and high end guitar distorted to oblivion all set to cartoon 1-2-1-2 drums, this is noise punk in the...

FASHIONABLE LIVING DEATH

A few years earlier, F.L.D. might have become a band of legend, but female fronted moody UK post-anarcho/proto-goth was rather our of vogue ...

TEARIST

Repetitive and distorted sampled beats that lurch as much as groove make up this beast, but what drives the beast is the vocals. A distinct ...

LATVIAN UNDERGROUND '93

I know more or less how you people work. Several hundred of you will stop by during the course of the day. You will look at whatever gem I h...

SUBMISSION HOLD

SUBMISSION HOLD are probably a "time and place" band for many people (including myself). I think if I heard most of their recorded...

RØSENKØPF

The third (at least) cassette release from these NYC nostalgist visionaries. Dispiritualized features longer dirges with more emphasis on t...