So, Roomrunner recently released their first full length LP, Ideal Cities via Baltimore’s own Fan Death Records. Yes, Ideal Cities draws from the history of posthardcore, math rawk, and dare I say it, grunge rock. What Denny Bowen and Co. have have done here is craft a massively catchy/dissonant noise rock masterpiece. But forget trying […]more…
mp3s :: Best Downloadables of 2013, Vol. 3
It is time for the third volume of the Best Downloadables of 2013. You can stream (and scrobble) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play […]more…
mp3 :: Teardrop Factory > Vanity Unfair
Brighton, UK’s Teardrop Factory just released their debut 7â€, the Topshop EP via Faux Discx. With a band name like Teardrop Factory, frankly I was expecting some sort of gothy dreampop and not the messy indie rock of the Topshop EP. This is a band that takes its hooks and slathers them with dissonance, fuzz […]more…
audio stream :: DEVO > Hardcore Vols. 1 + 2
Time to talk about another great reissue from the good folks at Superior Viaduct. They have teamed up with Booji Boy Records to release a two volume set of early DEVO recordings entitled, Hardcore. DEVO started as a conceptual art project preaching the gospel of devolution. Their pre-punk “devolved blues” came forth out of the […]more…