X-MAS TREE

Maybe you don't care about this ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O side project from the early '90s, but maybe you should. Fuzzed out, ...

PSYCHIC BLOOD

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

MICHAEL STEARNS

This is all the tape said: ENCOUNTER. And when I started listening, expecting to hear some run of the mill mix tape packed with unknown ...

RØSENKØPF

The third (at least) cassette release from these NYC nostalgist visionaries. Dispiritualized features longer dirges with more emphasis on t...

COMMUNION

I hope that wherever you are when you listen to this, you are alone. And I hope that you are ready. A relic from 1995, COMMUNION's Their...

78s FROM THE MOON & TEXAS // CHOO-JA KIM

More relics from the era I delved into yesterday. I toured with LOST GOAT twice in 1999, one of my favorite stints on the road with three fa...

BLIND AMONGST THE FLOWERS

While 1987's Dementia Americana  single is a deliberate goth punk stomper somewhere between early P.I.L. and KILLING JOKE, this unmarked...

BRUTAL GARDENERS

This wasn't my first band, but rather my first side project. After Dan left behind the brilliant ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O , moved f...

STRESS

Last November when the CONQUEST FOR DEATH tour ended in Belém, Brasil, we had a few days to explore the city (the tourist books say it's...

OZRIC TENTACLES

Seriously, fukk a bunch of punk points, right? I mean, you can't use them for shit and other punks only resent you for having lots of th...

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...

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...

MR. BUNGLE

I worked at a local chain restaurant when I first moved to San Francisco, providing excellent customer service to business men and women dow...

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 ...

THEE HEAVY '70s

My pal Brad lives in Milwaukee, he has a hand in (or is responsible for)  TRTRKMMR , NO SANCTUARY , and OTEASANEK, and he likes making tapes...

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...

SEEDS OF INSPIRATION

Lots of people who like modern heavy music worship at the altar of Scott "Wino" Weinrich. Wino's output has never thrilled me,...

EWA BRAUN

The first time I toured Europe, in 2003, we played a brilliant show in Vrah, Czech Republic. A tiny village with a punk venue on top of a hi...

GENESIS CLIMBER

The Bay Area's GENESIS CLIMBER are not your ordinary band, and these two 10+ minute jams will scare off anyone looking for a pogo friend...

MOENDA

I've been stuck on this 30 minute jam for a few weeks now, so it seemed appropriate to share.  Drones, loops, drums, samples all join fo...