STARES

These dudes make their magic in the room across from me in a basement on Turk St. in one of this fine city's more decrepit neighborhoods...

SHORT WALK

Urgh, a music war upon your face. Brutal and blistering shit attack from Milwaukee that will crush the shit out of your mind. Members of HOL...

PLUTOCRACY

Fuck. PLUTOCRACY was in a league (and often a world) all their own. Death metal weaned on powerviolence and genuine disenfranchisement, perh...

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 ...

FEMALE SNAKE

Don't really care how many times these kids have listened to IRON LUNG (I'm guessing it numbers not in the dozens, but in the hundre...

LIFE ENDS

Blasting insanity in the West Coast Powerviolence tradition. Ferocious Germans weaned at the teat of DESPISE YOU and INFEST make quite a rac...

KILLED BY NOISE

Total mayhem in the form of ripping fastcore, grind and hardcore from 20 different Czech bands. While I'm sure that single sentence will...

HARSH VIBES

Nasty, mean hardcore filled with awkwardness and hatred. The vocals are stressed to the very breaking point and their US styled approach is ...

UNCONSCIOUSNESS

For about a year, John and I hosted a Mix Tape Exchange in Milwaukee. Interest began to wane after a few months, but on those first couple o...

VICOUS BRICKS

From the opening snarl, from the 45 seconds of unbridled disdain that starts "Decay," there can be no doubt that VICIOUS BRICKS ar...

THE OILY MENACE

I got super stoked on this when I heard it last year, and fully intended to share the sounds immediately...if you people could only imagine ...

VILE INTENT

I was pleased that Canada's VILE INTENT were every bit as ferocious live as their recordings suggest. Taking liberal cues from classic ...

FAST COMP

The title pretty much says it all, this is a Fast Comp. None of these songs crack the one minute mark, and range from face ripping fastcore ...

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 ...

IRON LUNG MIXTAPE

Other bands have dabbled with collecting the music of their friends and associates in the form of a familial mix tape, but it should come as...

DEEP SHIT

These Wisconsin maniacs live and breathe West Coast Powerviolence, right down to the urban movie samples. But when the jams are this crucial...

MINDLESS

Sheer brutality from Texas. Female fronted terror that lands squarely a the grey area surrounded by hardcore, powerviolence, crust and fastc...

DISTORT TORONTO

Toronto was kicking in the mid '00s (still is, really), with piles of great bands. I was there a few times - not nearly often enough - a...

EUNUCH

Maybe this shit should have waited until Monday, but I've eyeing the EUNUCH tape languishing near the top of the "to be blogged...

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...