Rise Against + Will Potter – The Eco-Terrorist In Me 7”
At first, it might be easy for the format fetishist who is searching for the great “find” or “must-have” on Record Store Day to…
Round Eye – s/t
Wow. A band grabbing listeners and shaking them by the head just to see the confused look on their faces isn’t a particularly common…
Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts – Blaster
Love him or hate him, no one can claim that Scott Weiland isn’t adaptable. Since first appearing on the alt-rock radar with Stone Temple…
The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Book review The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll (Penguin) I remember the first time I read The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll. I was…
Jamstik (gear review)
In the spirit of full disclosure, I must confess that I began my review of the Zivix Jamstik harboring a great deal of trepidation….
The Bar Stool Preachers – One Fool Down 7” single
When’s the last time you listened to some punk rock, reader? That’s P-U-N-K R-O-C-K; the snotty stuff made in the face of mediocrity. The…
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015
When The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion made its lustrous return with Meat + Bone in 2012 (after revisiting their catalogue with Shout Factory), fans…
Cancer Bats – Searching For Zero
Two Hellbounders weigh in on the latest from Toronto’s Cancer Bats… I’ll freely admit that when I first started listening to Searching for Zero,…
King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists (vinyl)
On the most superficial level, making an album like This Machine Kills Artists should be the definition of simplicity. How could it not be?…
The Melvins – Hold It In (Vinyl Vlog)
It might sound a little deliberately contrary but, in the current “more is more” music industry landscape (where more variant releases of albums on…