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Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (At A Loss Recordings). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Spice Rack (Fainting Room Collective). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Bleuuuuuuurghroarrrr! Matthew Moyer is overjoyed to find Obituary just as primitive and bloodthirsty as when he first heard them, in this recent concert dvd. Change is overrated.
Futurists Against The Ocean (Mimicry Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
26 Songs (Ipecac Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Daniel Mitchell discusses fashion tips, including corpse paint and viking helmets, with Brad Wharton from metalcore stalwarts Premonitions of War.
Maxmillion (Retribute). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Dissumulate (Earache). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Feel Good Now (Atavistic). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Hymns (Koch / Music For Nations). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Hold Your Breath (Solid State / Tooth & Nail). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Let the Soul Out and Cut the Vein (Earache). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
A Fine Day to Exit (Koch/Music For Nations). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism and Seminar III: Zozobra (Tortuga). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
Memories (Triumvirate). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Us and Them (Earache). Review by Nirav Soni
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.