VOIGHT•KAMPFF

It's no secret that punks have taken to looking to the dreary sounds of decades past, but the nucleus of VOIGHT•KAMPFF have been working...

BELLOW

This one came to The Escape along with many kind words about past projects and current endeavors, and I confess that I put off listening to ...

NECROMIS

Death metal ain't my thing. Those words might read as blasphemy to some, but the genre has never really grabbed me. However, I like to t...

VOLITION/JUHYO

Minneapolis sonic innovators JUHYO continue to amaze. NO STATIK shared a frigid Minneapolis basement with them in January - volume only enh...

WILD CHILD

This slab came out of nowhere and launched itself into my heart - fierce and fiercely snotty power punk madness from The City Of The Viking....

NUMB TONGUE // NO TASTE

This 1984 comp started the label that would eventually become Empty Record s in Germany who, under their moniker Masking Tapes, were also re...

LIFE OF MONOTONY

As the title suggests, this 2006 comp feature half a dozen acts from Minneapolis, that bastion of cultural diversity mysteriously plopped in...

VARIX

A tasty platter for anyone who is still foolish enough to think that raucous noisy distorted punk is solely the domain of humans born with c...

JUHYO/OKHA

Harsh and beautiful electronic noise. JUHYO hail from Minneapolis and are responsible for a 14 minute piece that takes you from mellow droni...

FORMALDEHYDE JUNKIES

This band kinda exploded in the mid 00s, their live sets were in a league memories of  NO JUSTICE , but FORMALDEHYDE JUNKIES absolutely had ...

COMPLETE WASTE

You know how VOID were so fucking fired up about playing hardcore and so generally "full of hate" that half the time they could ba...

CONDOMINIUM

CONDOMINIUM made a bit of a buzz around these parts earlier this year.  By "quite a buzz," I mean three or four people talked abou...