PSYCHIC BLOOD

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

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...

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 ...

MISCHLINGE

Dark. An unpleasant conceptual journey through WWII era Germany, Following Orders creates a mood like virtually no other noise release I...

LIMBS BIN

A trying aural assault, LIMBS BIN blast through 24 tracks of purely digital hardcore in under a quarter hour. Chicago's BLOODY MINDED ar...

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...

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...

PSYCHIC BLOOD

Noisy shoegazing adult punk sounds dredged though guitar alt rock (SST-era SONIC YOUTH/DINOSAUR JR., HOUSE OF LOVE) come your way from Weste...