MASSGRAVE

Bombastic. Chaotic. Thunderous. Cavernous. The always excellent Hardcore Survives label dropped this bomb a while ago, and it makes my head spin every time I hear it. Exactly what you need this morning...exactly what you need every morning for that matter.

MASSGRAVE

FANTASY ISLAND // HADALS

Harsh electronic fukkery from FANTASY ISLAND backed with crashing waves of sound from HADALS. One track from each, 25 minutes of sonic manipulation. 

XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Last show of tour tonight. Denizens of Baltimore-City, come revel in sound at The Bell Foundry with LOTUS FUCKER and AT THE GRAVES. It will be wonderful.

LITTLE ITALY

I must like that STARING PROBLEM tape a lot, because I keep referencing it. This time the nod comes not from another Midwest band but from some killer New Yorkers called LITTLE ITALY. Take those breathy female vocals and set them to raunchier and more feisty music...like our Carbondale heroes mixed with a punked out Jon Spencer. Whatever the nonsensical descriptors, the shit fukkn rules.

LITTLE ITALY

By some insane coincidence, today's post features a band from New York City, and tonight NO STATIK is playing a show in New York City. What are the fukkn odds of that?!?

LIFE ENDS

Blasting insanity in the West Coast Powerviolence tradition. Ferocious Germans weaned at the teat of DESPISE YOU and INFEST make quite a racket, plowing through 16 venomous songs in less than 12 minutes. Unrelenting and wondrous.

DEUTSCHLAND VERRECKE

NO STATIK in Cambridge, Massachusetts tonight with CREEM, NATURAL LAW and NO SIR I WON'T at The Democracy Center. Come vote on getting your face rocked off.

DEFEAT

Fist banging melodic crust never went out of style, it's just that too many bands started doing it poorly and you stopped listening. In case you missed Malaysia's DEFEAT the first time around, here is your second chance. Start sewing those patches back on your trousers, kid.

SHADOWS OF FEAR

Philadelphia: 508 South 5th Street awaits your presence. Tonight we will be sharing a room with SICKOIDS and THE BROOD.

POLISKITZO

POLISKITZO are associated with the Silenzio Statico crew in Los Angeles, but it's hard to say exactly where they fit in. I've seen them several times, but I don't think I've ever seen them live at a show where they were meant to play. POLISKITZO are the dudes who spend the show smoking weed and tripping on acid in the back (or around the corner) and then when you least expect it (or when you are ready to leave) you look up and they are on stage. But you can't leave because they are too damn good, so you wind up staying at the show until three in the morning. The layered vocals are what make this demo stand out from their first, but the music is still blissed out So Cal punk with a tasteful touch of '70 NYC glam punk on the guitar. Prepare to get stoked.

POLISKITZO

NO STATIK tour continues tonight in Columbus, Ohio. The last time I played at The Legion Of Doom we battled the circuit breaker for a frustrating 15 minutes before calling it a night. Let's hope that the IBEW has paid them a visit since then. 

DIE KREUZEN

1982 demo. Flawless Midwestern hardcore punk. We are playing Milwaukee tonight, so it seemed appropriate. One of the best US hardcore bands ever. Five songs in just under seven minutes. In case you were wondering, it's pronounced "dee", and not "d-eye."

DIE KREUZEN

Milwaukee tonight at the CCC...SIN ORDEN is playing too, but they are called NO ORDER tonight just to keep with the "No" theme. It is good to come home.