COLD CIRCUITS

COLD CIRCUITS feature two of the dudes from SYNTHETIC ID and they played a show today in a venue that is less than a 15 minute walk from my...

STILLSUIT

Chaotic sound born out of art and expression that bows to no rule (and seems to write no riff). The Bay Area's STILLSUIT are a veritable...

TOTAL FUCKER

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

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...

OiL!

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

LOST GOAT

There has never been a band like LOST GOAT. The San Francisco trio started in 1996 opening for GRINCH and RUDIMENTS, and during their half d...

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 ...

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...

CORRUPTED MORALS

So many forgotten bands from this era of hardcore punk...listen to this 10 song banger from Pinole, California and tell me the late '80s...

EFFLUXUS

The lineup has expanded, and with a few more shows under their studded belts EFFLUXUS keep getting better - last Friday at Thrillhouse was ...

REPLICA

REPLICA are the best. This doesn't mean that your favorite band is somehow bad, it just means that any time I see REPLICA live or liste...

STIKKY

As if the 39 songs on STIKKY's 1987 3D & A Half demo weren't quite enough, this one comes with the first two demos slapped onto...

COPS

Musically confrontational, San Francisco's COPS blow through 6 songs in the time it would take most hipsters to carve out the perfect li...

POVERTY RECORDS SAMPLER

It was the 1990s, and the idea of starting a label with two bands a roster made up of drug addled savants from the neighborhood, your aspiri...

ELEGY

From the moment four hi-hat crashes usher in the start of this three song screamer, you know exactly what you are in for: Motörcharged madne...

PLUTOCRACY

Fuck. PLUTOCRACY was in a league (and often a world) all their own. Death metal weaned on powerviolence and genuine disenfranchisement, perh...

DISPLEASURE

DISPLEASURE could just as easily have been born in Midwestern basements circa 199?, but I'm happy that they rose up here over the last y...

YADOKAI

Between a guitarist relocated to Southern California and other projects (HUNTING PARTY, EFFLUXUS, FACE THE RAIL, SYNTHETIC ID and more, stra...

IRON LUNG

IRON LUNG should need no introduction, they have been honing their craft for nearly 15 years and have influenced hoards of followers in the ...