UNUR

As anyone who stops by here with any frequency is well aware, I love hardcore. But I am also shamelessly nostalgic, and bands of youngsters ...

DEN

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

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). ...

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...

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...

COLD LOVERS

Often, the best part of playing in a band is getting to see other bands, and this was the case a few weeks ago when NO STATIK played in Chic...

REGRETS

Released early last year, this downtuned rager slipped under my radar until recently, but I'm glad I picked up the blips and paid attent...

CÜLO

Back to Chicago for a second time this week, here's the long overdue return of CÜLO to Terminal Escape. Their first demo made my head s...

CEMETERY

Some folks are taking the current injection of '80s goth into DIY punk a little more seriously than others, and doing so with frightenin...

SOSPECHOSOS

Absolutely fukkn killer reverbed hardcore from south Chicago. Every song is fast and catchy as hell, taking cues from '80s Spanish ...

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 ...

FENCED

OPT OUT played with these girls on our recent tour and they blew us all away - young, smart and vicious hardcore. When they started in late ...

POOR CHOICE

These dudes were kind enough to mail The Escape a coupla tapes last year, but I get easily distracted and POOR CHOICE is just now making its...

PEDESTRIANS

PEDESTRIANS ruled every single time I saw them. Catchy as shit and full of old punk hooks, but they never sounded derivative or recycled, th...

PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES

Chicago 1990s chaotic hardcore seems to be synonymous with that band named after the Death Wish  dude, but I think of bands like MY LAI, DAN...

PRONOUNCED DEAD

Chicago in the 1990s cranked out a healthy heap of great bands - some that went on to cult stardom and others who remain virtually unknown t...

CULO

This band makes me want beer, and you know that they have a LOT of it. Thrashing basement punks from Chicago bash out eight songs wrapped in...

LIFE SENTENCE

I don't remember LIFE SENTENCE being nearly as good as this live tape leads me to believe they were.  Blistering 80s USHC that cranks th...