31 October 2020
INCARCERATED
30 October 2020
ENCHANTED SURF

29 October 2020
28 October 2020
ACRYLICS
27 October 2020
DISAFFECT

26 October 2020
CRUTCH // PAVEL CHEKOV
25 October 2020
CROQUE MADAME
24 October 2020
FATIGUE
23 October 2020
DISTRICT OF COLOMBIA
22 October 2020
LANDFILL
20 October 2020
TORTURE BY ROSES
19 October 2020
ANTIBODIES

18 October 2020
BASTARDS

17 October 2020
CROSS CLASS
Oh, I'm sorry...did you miss this one? You'd be forgiven if you did, it was a blip in 2015 and they hardly (if ever?) played shows outside of Sacramento. But here you go. And don't snooze on the posthumous split 12" with RAD, because both bands make my jaw hurt.
16 October 2020
ESTA SUCIA CIUDAD
15 October 2020
CLASSIFIED PROTEST
14 October 2020
SOCKEYE
If you know, then you know. And if you don't know, then you need to. "Dear God, I Hate Christmas." "Lay Off, Dick." "Cut Off Your Arm." "Jello Biafra." "Fuck." There are no losers on The Loony Misadventures Of Your Dick, one of half a dozen (or so) releases from SOCKEYE in 1989. Serious question: What were you doing in 1989? In order to properly (and completely) contextualize North American DIY punk and hardcore, I think that knowing SOCKEYE is essential. You don't have to like SOCKEYE, some might even argue that you shouldn't like SOCKEYE....but you need to know them.
13 October 2020
SIAMESE TWINS
12 October 2020
HATE PREACHERS
11 October 2020
BENICIA
10 October 2020
BLACK MAGNET
Ruthless industrial metal from Oklahoma City....this tape hits me like Pretty Hate Machine with mosh parts like it escaped from the late '80s and just now found its way back to civilization. Remember when SKINNY PUPPY toured with GODFLESH? Yeah, it's like that.
BLACK MAGNET09 October 2020
POP MAGIC
07 October 2020
MODURETIK
06 October 2020
HASSLER
05 October 2020
HICKEY
18 years ago today, we got a call that Matty had died. We had just moved to Milwaukee, and it was truly isolating to be that far away from our friends who were all feeling the same loss that we were. Of course, the sounds he helped make and the legend he helped create was in fact still in its infancy, but....I'll trade a legacy and a few records (even really good ones) to hear that snarky ass laugh. I posted the untreated 4-track version of this tape a few years back - it just has Miss Cloud Master sharpied on the side and sounds like gibberish and I clearly demonstrated how little I know by not realizing that it was meant to be played back on a 4-track. Or, in this case, a 3-track (Matty's machine was 75% functional, which must cosmically imply something...I'm just not sure what). Greg mixed it down for me (you). There was the ghost of an ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF JACKIE O record lurking in the mix, which makes sense because Dan was in and out of the house at the time - it took up all but the bass for the first 8ish minutes of what is presented here as "(bass only 3-track)." There are 36 minutes of instrumental rehearsal recordings here. Nothing you will recognize, just three fellows settling in and making sounds. There's the drum accents around 20:15, a few distinctively loose Dusty Hill notes peering through the bevy of bass runs...and sometimes I wonder if it's even them (edit: Aesop says it isn't, but I'm having a moment regardless). The general feeling of nonchalance is what I miss. And I miss it terribly - a statement and a sentiment that reaches far further than the memory of one person can.
04 October 2020
SURREALIST DREAM

