HEDGEFUND

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

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

I've been putting this one off for ages - a killer comp of noisy hardcore and punk from the Northeast, but the track listing is confusin...

DER SUBMARINE RACERS

These Boston weirdos blast out raw distorted garage hardcore, sometimes barely discernible as songs but always overloaded. But on "Cool...

UPSIDEDOWN CROSS

Boston's UPSIDEDOWN CROSS are a thing of mystery. Formed from the ashes of the equally mystifying KILSLUG, their releases combine drug a...

WHITE PAGES

I can't really describe this, but I loved it the minute I pressed 'play.' I even asked Karoline to help, since her musical descr...

PERMACULTURE

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

SIAMESE TWINS

This is for all of the people who do not have their finger on the pulse. I heard this when I was in Boston in January (our show ruled, by t...

PINK NIGHTMARE

I confess that I snoozed on this one after I picked it up at their SF show last year. Maybe it was an off night, maybe I was still reveling ...

SLEEPER CELL

A lot of stuff from the early '00s gets overlooked, and plenty of it with good reason. Generic rehashes of genres past were running ramp...

FUCKED UP MIXED TAPE II

Mix tapes are perfect for tour, this tour starts on a Friday, and Friday is (conveniently) the day that I post mix tapes. This tour will sta...

USURPER

Sent in by a Friend Of The Escape, five tracks of pained distorted hardcore from Boston. You know the drill, and USURPER do not disappoint. ...

DOTS

Snotty and irreverent KBD styled punk courtesy of one of the only dudes I have ever kicked out of my kitchen. I mention this not to talk shi...

FRKSE

These sounds draw you in as the tape rolls, and become indispensable with subsequent listens. Huge droning scapes woven together from long f...

BAD ENTRAILS 5

For the folks who enjoyed Bad Entrails 1 and 3 , I present you with the next odd numbered volume in the series: Bad Entrails 5 . This 1987 ...

THE REFUSENIKS

I never got to see this band, but their 2004 Nineteen To The Dozen LP still gets regular spins, and I love their seemingly illogical marria...

GASH

Modern noise punks delivering a raging '90s styled crust assault. Dig a little deeper than the thin topsoil that covers your first impre...

GASMASK TERRÖR // BLOOD KROW BUTCHER

A transatlantic noise punk double shot to get you through your Monday. France's GASMASK TERRÖR have been worshipping successfully at th...

IRON LUNG MIXTAPE

Other bands have dabbled with collecting the music of their friends and associates in the form of a familial mix tape, but it should come as...

ASPECTS OF WAR

You like Noise, Punk? This is why you stop by on Monday - a complete blown out DIStorted assault in four movements that don't resemble m...

I'M BUCK NAKED

More BCT jams to fill up a Friday. This time the hardcore jams come from Americaland (except AKUTT INNGGELSE, some random Scandinavians tack...