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 ...

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...

AUTONOMY

There's something in the water in Carbondale, Illinois. Last time I was there I swung an axe at some dude's head. It was pretty fukk...

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...

PARLOR

This reminds me of an upbeat version of STARING PROBLEM . Similar guitars, similar vocal trade offs, just amped up and sassier. They are bot...

THE HERE AND NOW

Sixteen different bands from all over the DIY spectrum, ranging from CÜLO , BUNNY SKULLS and POSITIVE NOISE to legendary one man noise punk ...

SKULLKRUSHER

Raw as fukk, years before studs and shoelaces were en vogue. The tape cover shows nine tracks, but alas there are only four jams on my copy....

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 ...

STARING PROBLEM

I am beyond enamored with this Carbondale trio (that;s in the south part of Illinois, for the geographically challenged) - breathy and trans...

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...

SWEET TOOTH

According to their mailing address, SWEET TOOTH hail from O'fallon, Illinois, which is somewhere about three skidmarks to the east of Ea...

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...