Pere Ubu – The Long Goodbye
Now into the fifth decade of Pere Ubu, David Thomas is still creating music that is fresh and original. What would you expect from…
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Fat White Family – Serfs Up! LP
While I can safely say that I did enjoy Fat White Family’s sophomore album (Songs For Our Mothers) when I reviewed it in 2016,…
Vertacyn Arc Materializer –Tasting The Sea LP
For some listeners, the nature of the Tasting The Sea LP will feel like a return to a different and remarkable time – in…
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem – four-album collection (1963-1967)
In Person At Carnegie Hall / Recorded Live In Ireland / In Concert / Freedom’s Sons One of my earliest childhood memories is listening…
Louise Lemon – A Broken Heart is an Open Heart (LP/2CD set)
As intellectually evasive as music genre names have the capacity to be (dig into music history, and you’ll realize how silly sub-genre names get…
Staff Playlists, April 2019
April showers bring… more metal? We welcome you once again to check out what the staff of Hellbound are playing and recommending this month….
Swanfest, March 2019
Swanfest @ City National Grove, Anaheim, California, March 30, 2019 First Swanfest, 2019, and can’t wait for many more to come. When you first…
Mars By 1980: The Story of Electronic Music
by David Stubbs Electronic music is everywhere now. Look at the TV series ‘Stranger Things’, for example, with its John Carpenter-inspired synth-scapes. ‘Mars By 1980’ tells…
Festival preview: Aftershock 2018
With summer in full swing, as everyone heads (and has headed) out and about to take in their favorite music festival, let’s not forget…
Staff picks, March 2018
This year we reintroduced an old Hellbound tradition – our monthly staff picks/playlists! Every few weeks we ask our regular and longtime contributors to…