DOUBLE-O

Don't get me wrong, MINOR THREAT is pretty bad ass, the S.O.A. EP is unfuckwithable and you'll never catch me bagging on VOID. But ...

PIG HEART TRANSPLANT

A four track opus from 2007, Land Of Marred Normalcy shows this collective of outcasts trudging through dark soundscapes. The nucleus Kortl...

DEHUMANIZED

After watching HYSTERICS and GRIMACE melt my face two nights in a row, it seemed logical to share some Northwest love. DEHUMANIZED feature H...

VARIOUS STUFF 87

I've put this one aside several times in the past, not because it is somehow lacking, but it's more a collection of various recordin...

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 ...

SHARKPACT

A glorious cacophony made with just drums and keyboards, this Olympia duo creates a racket that should by all rights drive me insane with ag...

CRIMINAL CODE

I first heard CRIMINAL CODE in Seattle, they opened the NO STATIK/MARTYRDÖD show and I was suitably impressed. Driving and urgent punk, but ...

CIGARETTE

Painfully slow and agonizingly airy sounds from the DC area, CIGARETTE take an hour to shuffle through a dozen songs. Breathy and deliberate...

SCREAM

Most casual punks know SCREAM as the band that the dude from NIRVANA played drums for in the '80s, but those of us who know the Dischord...

THE GUILT

Every I see this tape staring at me from the Shelf Of Cassette To Share, I think something along the lines of "Shit, I still haven'...

MUTANT VIDEO

Subtly sinister, synth driven sounds from the Seattle. The entity behind SELF COM  sits at the center of this project, and the similarities ...

FAMILY STONED

Even though they achieve only marginal success some of the time, Olympia's FAMILY STONED reach such dreamy heights when they fire on all...

BITE ITSELF // SELF COM

It's been nearly a year since I first heard SELF COM , but I devour everything I can get my hands (and ears on). His sounds are mes...

SAME-SEX DICTATOR

SAME-SEX DICTATOR are making some of the ugliest music around, combining the low end hollow attack of GODHEADSILO with the incessant fury o...

HYSTERICS

Saturday was a good day to be a punk rocker in San Francisco. First I trekked down the hill to Thrillhouse and caught a surprise set from NA...

IRON LUNG

The IRON LUNG Comedy Hour was recorded in late 2001 at Burnt Ramen Studios in Richmond, California. It was one of the funniest live shows I ...

WHITE WARDS

When I pressed 'play' on the deck to start the first WHITE WARDS demo last year, I had no idea what I was in for, but after seeing ...

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...

HELL WOMAN

Olympia's HELL WOMAN trudge through bass heavy '90s influenced tunes that fall in line with the SMUT/LUNACHICKS world, tough they ma...

FIRST STRIKE

All modesty aside, I think the last three comps I posted were total fukkn killers...and I see no reason to start making Fridays any less awe...