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The London Diehards - There's Lies, Damn Lies and There's... LP (Rock 'N' Roll Disgrace)
After whetting my appetite with the strong Great Britain 7“EP, The London Diehards have delivered a full-length that displays their brute strength in all its boot-kicking glory.
26 January 2012Poor Lily - Poor Lily (Poor Lily)
Some people like their punk rock to look a certain way and sound a certain way. That’s fine, don’t waste your time here.
18 January 2012Wrath of Typhon - "Avenger" EP (Eleventh Key)
Applying old-school business sense to the modern music market, this EP is available as a free downloadable single of sorts through Eleventh Key to promote Wrath of Typhon’s full-length, Speak from the Fire.
11 January 2012The Brains - Drunk Not Dead (Stomp)
Rather than pigeonhole themselves with boring clichés, Canada’s Brains are more a punk rock band with a rockabilly edge.
7 January 2012Crank Sturgeon - Mashacoustic (Love Earth Music)
It may not be the easiest thing to listen to, but there’s a certain silly fun traipsing through all the squelch and static that makes the painful frequencies all the more endearing.
28 October 2011+DOG+ - Public Disgrace (Placenta)
Public Disgrace compiles three intense live recordings from a stellar lineup.
21 October 2011Viodre - Interpol Alchemi (Hospital)
On what is perhaps their first “official,” i.e., non-CDr or cassette, release, Viodre have assembled a collage of negativity that is at once disturbing, meditative and demanding, an unapologetic aural assault akin to those nightmares that just won’t let you wake up.
7 October 2011DDDD - Sameness (Love Torture)
LA’s premiere noise supergroup pick up where Frustration Music left off, continuing the saga of lost, forlorn emotion channeled through electronics and distortion.
3 October 2011Victory and Associates - "Party Savior" b/w "Thousandaire" 7" (Seismic Wave)
This is absolutely one of the most painful slabs of vinyl I’ve ever endured.
29 September 2011Josh Dobbs and His Deficit of Dreams/Ghost Aquarium - split 7"EP (Ripping)
Perhaps the best thing about of these songs is how much they could pass for tracks on a Killed By Death comp.
26 September 2011Apparat - DJ-Kicks (!K7)
The German Apparat’s entry in !K7’s DJ-Kicks series is a mellower affair than previous offerings, focusing more on sonic textures, atmospheres and patterns than floor-thumping house or techno music.
23 September 2011The Boss Mustangs - "Mrs. McKee" b/w "Hazel Holly (Please Come Back)" 7" (Spinout)
Sure, there’s nothing really new or original about these two songs, but that doesn’t mean they’re not any good.
20 September 2011Tania and the Revolutionaries - The Final Blow (Kicking and Screaming)
Streetwise New York songstress Lani Ford has lain her hard rock band Stark to rest and reemerged with a new sound, a new look and new songs that focus on her quiet side while retaining the intense personality that always shone through her music.
15 September 2011The Clearer - The Clearer 7"EP (Forge)
Former members of Shiv created a band that is simultaneously art rock and arena rock, two styles of music shouldn’t work well together, but somehow do.
12 September 2011The Turbo A.C.'s - Kill Everyone (Stomp)
Fortunately, Kill Everyone was well worth the wait, showing the band evolving even further in their expanded four-piece lineup.
8 September 2011Michael Korb - Two of Me (Winged Disk)
Hopefully, a television producer will hear this and use a song and Korb can make tens of thousands of dollars from it.
6 September 2011Instagon - Scary City (Love Earth Music)
With this combination book/CD, Instagon delivers a self-described “noise opera” about the seedy dark underbelly of urbanity.
25 August 2011The Spanish Donkey - XYX (Northern Spy)
The Spanish Donkey are a prime example of everything that can be wrong with improvisational music.
23 August 2011Various - Blow Your Head: Diplo Presents Dubstep (Downtown/Mad Decent)
Whether, as I was, you’re wary of the dubstep thing, or you’re completely new to the genre and need a good place to start, this compilation is for you.
15 August 2011My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Sinister Whisperz: The Wax Trax! Years 1987-1991 (Rustblade)
These songs are downright sleazy blasts of orgiastic frenzy packed with B-movie samples, grinding rhythms and blasphemous lyrics.
11 August 2011Ultrabunny - Volume Merchants/Unsafe at Any Age LP (TPOS)
Their music could almost be called no wave, as it consists of improvised punk rock explosions and noise, but instead of looking to the past, Ultrabunny are about the present tense, here and now.
8 August 2011Endometrium Cuntplow - Ecoplasty (Love Earth Music)
Simply put, this is noise at its absolute best and a perfect starting point for anybody who’s been curious about the genre but too afraid to ask.
5 August 2011The Safes/The Blackbelts - split 7" EP (Wee Rock)
If you’re out record-hunting and you come across this little ditty, pick it up. It’s well worth a few of the bucks in your pocket.
1 August 2011Wry - "Blueprint to Nero" b/w "Tempt of Will" 7" (Forge)
Well, the cover art is pretty cool. If only the music matched…
28 July 2011The Barbarellatones - The Sound of Love (The Barbarellatones)
For his first digital-only release, head Barbarellatone Robbie Quine presents what is quite possibly his best album to date.
25 July 2011Confines - "Withdrawn" 7"EP (Labor of Love/Side Two)
This is powerful music that is as much Damaged-era Black Flag, early Doom and Gauze as it is Gang Green and Jerry’s Kids.
21 July 2011Controlled Bleeding - Odes to Bubbler (Soleilmoon)
This album may be more a collection of tracks from the past five years than a cohesive unit, but it maintains a consistency that proves CB have no plans to call it quits anytime soon.
18 July 2011Shark Pants - "Automatic Pinner" 7"EP (Dirt Cult)
Quite honestly, this entire EP sounds like a Bad Company LP being played at 45 rpm, and since I’ve never been much of a fan of Bad Company, I’m not much of a fan of this record.
14 July 2011Le Futur Pompiste - Le Futur Pompiste (Shelflife)
It’s one thing to use Stereolab as a reference/influence, but to just swipe chord-change for chord-change is simply unforgivable.
14 July 2011Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Live at Nassau Coliseum '78 (Shout! Factory)
Sure it’s a lot of self-indulgent uber-musicianship that seems to glorify dexterity over song-craft at times, but it’s also a lot of fun if you have a sense of humor that allows you to appreciate cheesy music like Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
30 June 2011London Diehards - Great Britain (Rock'N'Roll Disgrace)
London Diehards are more what you’d expect from a skinhead oi punk band. The songs are solid, catchy and melodic, with tough British vocals and football chant choruses.
28 June 2011Discodeine - Discodeine (Dirty/Pschent)
This French self-titled debut blends elements of house music, old techno and classic disco with an overall italo feel to produce engaging, intelligent electronic dance music that goes beyond the typical 4/4 club banality.
23 June 2011P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. - "Buzz Off" 7" (Rock'N'Roll Disgrace)
Featuring Kelly Halliburton – drummer of the post-*Dead Moon* Pierced Arrows – on bass and original Poison Idea drummer, Dean Johnson, this is a powerful blast of rock’n‘roll fury that few bands are actually capable of achieving.
21 June 2011Brandt Brauer Frick - You Make Me Real (!K7)
An inverted Kraftwerk, the classically trained trio of Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick compose music that is at once avant-garde classical and thumping club music.
15 June 2011Ami Dang - Hukam (Ehse)
To say that Ami Dang’s music is indescribable would be an understatement.
13 June 2011+DOG+ - Forced Morality (Love Earth Music)
Never known to be predictable, +DOG+ follow their antisocial masterpiece, Bliss, with a less harsh, but extremely misanthropic album.
9 June 2011Bronto Skylift - The White Crow (Bronto Skylift)
Sure it has all the hallmarks of a ’90s-ish noise rock classic, but for the most part, it reminded me of an unlikely combination of Karp and post-In on the Killtaker Fugazi.
6 June 2011Miss Chain & The Broken Heels - On a Bittersweet Ride (Sonic Jett)
Moving away from the blues-based Rolling Stones influence and more into the ’60s girl pop sound, Italy’s Miss Chain and company have managed to craft an album that is as contemporary as it is retro.
1 June 2011By The Throat - One Good Night 7"EP (Winter Street)
Boston’s By The Throat play that good old hardcore, the kind that had that manic beat that drove you nuts, but was melodic enough to stick in your head after the song was over.
30 May 2011The Curious Mystery - We Creeling (K)
We Creeling is quite possibly the best true psychedelic album recorded since maybe 1972.
27 May 2011Various - F*>k Dance, Let's Art: Sounds from a New American Underground (Cool in the Pool/!K7)
While not completely, thoroughly engaging, this compilation gives an interesting glimpse into the indie electronic underground of today.
24 May 2011Neon Bastard - Meikhaus (Robotic Empire)
It’s a gnarly bit of New Zealand hardcore that’s a bit like having four crazy bums jump you on an empty subway while scream non sequiturs in your face.
18 May 2011Olekranon - Bilal (Housepig/Inam)
Quite frankly, Bilal is a brilliant, ambitious work that is as much a work of art as the paintings that grace the cover and inserts.
17 May 2011The New Mastersounds - Masterology: The Pioneers of New British Funk (Sundazed)
If you’re needing more instrumental funk in your life, this 19-song ten-year retrospective is a perfect place to begin.
11 May 2011Negura Bunget - Vîrstele Pămîntului (Code666/Aural)
There’s something to the music of Romania’s Negura Bunget that’s captivating, fascinating and unique in a way that most run-of-the-mill black metal bands can’t pull off.
8 May 2011Last Rape/Pollutive Static - split CD (Love Earth Music)
Last Rape from Texas and the UK’s Pollutive Static join forces to unleash their individual wall-of-static sounds on ears that appreciate pain.
3 May 2011Equimanthorn - A Fifth Conjuration (Black Montanas)
This fifth full-length release shows the musickal magicians constantly refining their sound, but staying true to the original ideas behind the band.
27 April 2011+DOG+ - Bliss (Love Earth Music)
Love Earth Music celebrates its 50th release with DOG‘s best and ugliest album.
26 April 2011The Barbarellatones - Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute (The Barbarellatones)
Confessions… finds head honcho Robbie Quine in a whimsical, dreamy mood delivering a psychedelic pop masterpiece that explores the outer regions of head music.
22 April 2011Elliott Caine Sextet - Hippie Chicks on Acid: Live at Alvas (Wondercap)
Jazz trumpeter Elliott Caine propels his music forward with passion, grace and that certain charm that seemed to disappear at the end of the ’60s when things went either “out there” or the fusion route.
19 April 2011World War IX - "Hate Mail From Friends" CD/7" EP (Red Black and Blue)
It’s the kind of punk rock that makes you want to get extremely drunk and act like an idiot, and I love every second of it.
14 April 2011T.H.U.G. - T.H.U.G. LP (Rock'N'Roll Disgrace)
Strong Oi! with more of a hard rock bent, i.e., a strong Rose Tattoo influence among the football chants and bar chords.
12 April 2011Various - What Is It 10" (Wondercap)
This collection of songs from LA’s first DIY punk label is almost more of a “Best of…” documenting classics from LA’s original vibrant punk rock scene.
8 April 2011Superyob - Aggrophobia (Rock'N'Roll Disgrace)
If you like your punk rock to sound like it came out of England circa 1979, then this is for you.
6 April 2011Magnet School/Dead Twins - Mysterious split 7" (Shifting Sounds)
Basically, it’s two Texan bands playing alternative rock that’s heavily rooted in the ’90s.
31 March 2011Tension Envelopes - "High" 7" (For the Ear)
These would be excellent songs to sing to a first-born child at bedtime.
29 March 2011The Slit Plasters - It Smells Like Hell Over Here...But It Sounds Good! 7" EP (Chorizoloco.com)
Vatican City is known more for pope hats than garage rock, though where better to get your rock’n‘roll than from the most (arguably) influential city on the planet?
23 March 2011Sun in the Satellite - "The Way" 7" (MPLS Ltd.)
Sun in the Satellite take a more subtle approach to heady music, as opposed to the bombastic wall-of-sound that you usually get.
21 March 2011Battle Ruins - Battle Ruins 7" EP (Rock'N'Roll Disgrace)
If you’re into heavy oi street punk, this is a slab of vinyl you won’t want to miss.
16 March 2011Neorev - Lines & Shapes (Midi Bear/Norotek)
Neorev embodies the epitome of what electronic dance music should be.
14 March 2011Blue Sausage Infant - Flight of the Solstice Queens (Zeromoon)
Flight of the Solstice Queens is an album so refreshingly diverse, it’ll leave you scratching your head wondering if it’s the same person.
11 March 2011Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead (Strut)
Mulatu Steps Ahead is an album of East African mystery, Latin influences and a mix of Afrobeat and highlife.
9 March 2011Chad E. Williams - The Vision Fields (Love Earth Music)
At times the sounds are beautiful, but there’s an underlying sinister element to it all.
7 March 2011Herpes - Das Kommt Vom Küssen (Tapete)
I want to flail ludicrously around the room in much the same way that The Fall make me wiggle all willy-nilly like I’m on an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba or something.
4 March 2011DaVinci - Fueled By Zen (DaVinci)
Fueled By Zen is four songs of ’70s-influenced stoner rock, very heavy on the Black Sabbath.
2 March 2011The Barbarellatones - Surf Narcs (Barbarellatones)
Surf Narcs is a sexy swirl of glam, new wave and roots punk, with that necessary bit of surf to keep us dressed in our bathing suits while a chorus line of drag queens dances around us.
28 February 2011Dogs on Television - Dogs on Television (Dogs on Television)
DoTV’s debut album is a rollicking foray into the hard rock of forty years ago, when just about everything on the rock stations was “stoner” rock.
25 February 2011The Chemical Distance - The Pain & the Progress (Bluntface)
It’s the instrumental tracks that stand out here, displaying what Otto Kinzel is truly capable of without the obstacle of bad singing to get in the way.
23 February 2011Kid606 - Songs About Fucking Steve Albini (Important)
Songs About Fucking Steve Albini is like a complete deconstruction of dance music to its extraneous elements, like the beats that propel the music have been removed, leaving only the strange sounds and effects that garnish the track as the main focus.
18 February 2011Hostile Cell - The Deafening (Coreshot)
Hostile Cell’s music is pop-metal aimed at chart-topping, and as such, is as bland as they come.
16 February 2011Phantom Glue - Phantom Glue (Teenage Disco Bloodbath)
Phantom Glue’s songs are low-end onslaughts of rage and aggression with a homeless lunatic shouting the vocals so loud and in your face that you can almost smell the booze and crack wafting from his breath.
14 February 2011Drunkdriver - Drunkdriver (Drunkdriver)
Drunkdriver’s eponymous final release is the soundtrack to being mugged by a guy who doesn’t need the money – rather he revels in the misery it causes.
11 February 2011DDDD - Frustration Music (Love Earth Music)
Rather than being a mere side-project of three veterans of the Los Angeles underground noise scene, DDDD has its own sonic style that establishes the group as a separate entity.
9 February 2011Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem Two (Important)
Totem Two would be the perfect soundtrack for a sex magic ceremony that ends in sacrifice and cannibalism.
7 February 2011Middle Class Trash - Middle Class Trash (Middle Class Trash)
Where most punk bands these days fall flat on their faces in cliches and poor musicianship, MCT happily drive over them in an out-of-control Mac truck heading downhill.
31 October 2010Hewhocannotbenamed - Sunday School Massacre (MVDaudio)
Excellent songs prove that there is more under Hewhocannotbenamed’s mask than the cartoon character he portrays with THE DWARVES.
17 October 2010Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - In O to ∞ (Important)
Acid Mothers Temple continually release challenging music that is striking in its originality and integrity.
10 October 201050 Ways to Kill Me - Gnarly Deth Wish (Scene Destroyer)
After a four year break, Jay has returned with his best laundry list of ridiculous ways to kill him the last 50WTKM offering.
9 February 2010Sinister Cyprus: Atrocious, Arkhon & Dictator
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Cyprus.
21 December 2009Evil Egypt: Ammattammen Bas, Oziris and Ultramundane
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Egypt.
9 November 2009Learza and Mardus: The Brilliant Minds Behind Bahraini Black Metal
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Bahrain.
27 October 2009Saudi Arabia's Newcomers: Al-Namrood, Mephisophilus and Premonition
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Saudi Arabia.
13 October 2009Azaroth, Blaspherion & Nekroforest: The UAE's Black Metal Diaspora
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at the United Arab Emirates.
27 September 2009Arabia: Oman's Sole Black Metal Band
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Oman.
23 August 2009Jordan's Black Thrashers: Augury, Infested Mind & Rabbath Ammon
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Jordan.
9 August 2009The Lone Voice of Evil in Syria: Blackspell
My series on Middle Eastern black metal continues with a look at Syria.
26 July 2009Wretched Lebanon: The Ugly Sounds of Ayat, Damaar & Veinen
I continue my series on Middle Eastern black metal with a look at three Lebanese bands.
12 July 2009Israel's Black Knights: Die Entweihung, Black Landscapes & Mucous Scrotum
I continue my series on Middle Eastern black metal with three Isreali bands.
28 June 2009The Dark Warriors of Persia: Aras, De Mysteriium & Sorg Innkallelse
I begin my series on Middle Eastern black metal with three bands from Iran.
7 June 2009Chris Ashford of What/Iloki/Wondercap Records Part 4
The final part of my interview with Chris Ashford.
31 May 2009Chris Ashford of What/Iloki/Wondercap Records Part 3
Part 3 of my interview with Chris Ashford.
24 May 2009Chris Ashford of What/Iloki/Wondercap Records Part 2
Part 2 of my interview with Chris Ashford.
17 May 2009Chris Ashford of What/Iloki/Wondercap Records
LA’s first DIY label creator offers his opinions on digital music and the current state of the music industry.
5 April 2009The Unheard Recordings by San Francisco's Bomb
Frontman/bassist Michael W. Dean has made Bomb’s rarest recordings available for free from Bomb’s official website.
22 March 2009Gold Among the Blogs Part 2: The Cows, The Dicks and Vom
Joe Stumble’s Last Days of Man on Earth blog contains some real treasures while retaining a respect for the artists and their music.
20 January 2009Gold Among the Blogs Part 1: SGM's Aggression
After 18 years, I’ve finally found the album that changed my concept of music forever.
21 December 2008It's a Dream Come True: Killed By Death Is Online!
The Nuggets of punk rock is better than ever in its expanded online format.
16 November 2008Exploring the Virtual Realms of Shadowrun and Spaceflight
Shadowrun is a gritty, cyberpunk epic, while Starflight is an otherworldy space opera.
18 October 2008The Astounding Science Fiction Radio of X Minus One
A science fiction radio show from the 1950’s remains as fascinating as it must have been when it first aired.
14 September 2008Mike Riddick of Metalhit.com (Part 2)
Part Two of an interview with the internet metal mogul.
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