How can listening to Boston’s blindspot not put a smile on your face? Soaked in the nostalgia of classic Alternative (They recently opened for Alanis!) yet anchored in the present, blindspot truly are the purveyors of all the sonic warm and fuzzies with a feel good sound that just epitomizes fun.
[Read more…]SPICE Up The Alt Ante On Brilliant 7″ A Better Treatment
After experiencing the dismal new Dune firsthand I have concluded that the only spice needed in my life should come from Penzeys’s or from the Los Angeles-based outfit that we’re talking about in this post you’re currently reading. You read that right, folks! I didn’t like the new Dune! No, wait. The only SPICE being mentioned in these pages from now on concerns the killer band who put out one of our most favorite records of 2020 and who has an equally killer new EP slated for release soon.
[Read more…]Singles! Joker’s Hand, “Goth Girlfriend”
LA’s Joker’s Hand take the Pop sensibilities of Blink-182 (Think lesser known Enema Of The State bangers and anthems like, ahem, “Anthem” or “Dumpweed” as a template) and combine it with the harder edge of a band like Social Distortion (In this case, we’re talkin’ White Light White Heat White Trash era) to give you the best Power Pop Punk you never knew you needed in your life. Which is the case with the new single and video for “Goth Girlfriend” which ponders the question of what it would sound like if Mark Hoppus fronted Social D.
[Read more…]Black Label Society Deliver Doorbuster Deals This Black Friday With The Delightfully Diabolical Doom Crew Inc.
More akin to a barrel-aged whiskey than a fine wine, Black Label Society has only gotten better and better over the years. The recent outings especially from Zakk Wylde and his motley crew of Rawkers have been some their best to date in our humble opinion and with their eleventh record, Doom Crew Inc., fast approaching BLS look to have outdone themselves again.
[Read more…]Singles! BLAB, “Gemini”
One thing’s for sure after listening through BLAB’s latest single, “Gemini”, is that the eventual record that’s going to house all these diverse ditties is not only going to be a veritable banger but also one of the most interesting debuts to drop in some time.
[Read more…]Kills Birds Righteously (And Riotously) Rawks On Stand Out Sophomore Outing Married
What. An. Album. Not necessarily a throwback so much as it’s a celebration of the origins of Grunge and Alternative, the sophomore scorcher from LA-based Kills Birds is a 2021 essential listening experience that manages to also flip those respective genres on their heads and take them in a righteously rawkin’ new direction.
[Read more…]PIG Digs Deep, Gets Dancier With A Bevy Of Industrial And Electro Luminaries On Drugged, Dangerous, & Damned
On the one hand, I typically despise writing about remix records but on the other, I love the Lord Of Lard. That said, I’ve recently come to the realization (Or was it a revelation?) that a remix album done right is akin to a new album unto itself utilizing the ebb and flow a regular record would have in place. As is the case with Drugged, Dangerous, & Damned which takes that embedded Raymond Watts DNA found in all the tracks and tweaks them to somehow dig down deeper in the roots to present listeners with a coherent collection of tracks that’s like classic KMFDM and early Skinny Puppy. In fact, the only flaw found here is the fact that the release should’ve been timed more perfectly to actually coincide with Halloween. We’ll take five days removed, though, and move on.
[Read more…]Glassing Bring Next Level Heaviness With Twin Dream
I don’t know what a “multidimensional trio” is but I do know that if all of them sound like Glassing do then sign me up for an annual subscription! Twin Dream is the third full-length from the Texas outfit and for the uninitiated, it mixes the visceral ferocity and technical prowess of Goes Cube with Neurosis’ bludgeoning behemothian presence and puts a frontperson whose presence is as diabolically diverse as Jacob Bannon behind the mic.
[Read more…]Temptress Transcend On Resplendent Evil Disco Archetype The Descent
Who says that “Evil Disco” died with Wayne Static??? Certainly not New Hampshire’s Temptress who might be the unofficial torchbearers for the heavy subgenre. Especially with the release of their latest which leans into the more Electro Metal elements of their sound which combines the teutonic stomp of Rammstein with the Nu-Industrial that Static-X and Professional Murder Music did so well.
[Read more…]PLUSH Pounce With Auspicious Anthem-Laden Self-Titled Debut
I’ll be honest. A lot of posts on here are us playing catch up on something we wanted to feature but, for some reason or another (Read: there are still not 30 hours in a day), we didn’t. Which brings us to today and PLUSH who enthralled us back in February when they dropped “Hate”. We thought this hook-laden killer anthem was a classic then so imagine our surprise to learn that “Hate” is just the tip of the iceberg on a debut full-length filled with more tunes that Rawk even harder and give listeners thirteen tracks that are just as momentous as they are memorable.
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