BROWN SUGAR/HOUNDS OF HATE/CRUDDY/MOMS @ STRANGE MATTER

we're (MOMS) playing a few dates at the end of november with Brown Sugar, some hardcore freaks from up north. Raleigh on the 28th and Richmond on the 29th. Should be a helluva show. Brown Sugar just put out an LP recently that i've yet to hear but the deportation ep was a ripper. Hounds of Hate is northeastern straightedge hc w/ members of Pissed Jeans, CREEM, and Natural Law.  Cruddy... post-punk/hardcore? i don't know too much about these fellas. they're from Texas. MOMS should be dropping another tape at this show so pick that sumbitch up, not to mention we're making a few more of the last one. if you didn't snag one of those (which is pretty likely, we only made 20) hit that up as well.

Brown Sugar//Hounds of Hate//Cruddy//MOMS @ Strange Matter November 29th. Seven American Notes

Brown Sugar//Cruddy//MOMS @ some venue in raleigh NC on November 28th

YOUTH OF TODAY - BREAK DOWN THE WALLS

shit on it all you want. i'm not edge but it's been one of those months where the people in my life are falling over constantly, acting the fool, falling apart etc. think i need a change (not to say i'm changing my habits, just that i need to distance myself from those who can't control their own)

Kriegshog - Hardcore Hell EP and S/T LP (2007/2010, Black Seed Asia Records)

My boy Connor Mullins slammed out this review for a failed attempt at a zine a few months ago. rage on Connor


Holy. Fuck. Kriegshog seizes the utterly lifeless body of the contemporary crust punk dream and revives it by jamming a gigavolt of raw, raging hate up its ass. It’s no secret that many if not most crust bands write records with the intent of composing a soundtrack to the apocalypse. But these records ARE the fucking apocalypse. The sole critique I have of this LP is that a scarce handful of the tracks can be a tad repetitive, but given the genre, a flaw as typical as this almost isn’t even worth mentioning. I usually find myself feeling discontent when I listen to most people’s description of this band, because merely classifying this as “Crust” or “D-beat” really doesn’t do justice to the intricate and refined yet chaotic and cacophonous sound these dudes have developed. To say tracks like “Mutation” and “Burn” along with most of the rest of them on this collection do anything but utterly bludgeon the listeners sympathies for all the thinly-veiled heinous and depraved activity of the fucked up world we live in would be a gross understatement. No matter how loud you blast these records, it will never, ever, be loud enough.

Swag.


HARDCORE HELL


LP

CONDOMINIUM - WARM HOME LP

#SWAG

warm home

SMOG - RED APPLE FALLS

bring on the seasonal affective disorder.

THE WONDERFUL AND FRIGHTENING WORLD OF DOUBLE NEGATIVE

17 minutes of chaos and fury. Apparently they're playing at Strange Matter sometime in December? swag

SO MUCH SWAG

my sister, passed out on a floor. 

WHITE BOSS LP

heavy as fuck sludge punk from olympia, washington. its definitely an album that = more than the sum of its parts. as far as i know this is their one and only release before breaking up, members went on to play in milk music. LP

Sexdrome 7"

this is some fucked up black metal punk from Copenhagen. iceage cover "count me in" on their LP so its only a matter of time before p4k make this band rich and famous

sexdrome - 7"

ROMAN CROSS - RAIN REHEARSAL/MAKE GRAVES THE HOME OF MEN

rawdog black metal from members of ashpool and prurient. thanks to Connor Mullins for showing me this. also, connor if you're reading this I may have killed your car today, had to get a homeless dude to help me push it back to the apartment. my bad.

RAIN REHEARSAL

MAKE GRAVES THE HOME OF MEN

Raw Nerve LP

Rips. Mysterious guy? don't know, don't care. my band opened for em in Richtown and the venue (a vegan restaurant) got destroyed. nuff said

http://www.mediafire.com/?2my0jymozym

GRASS WIDOW / RANK/XEROX SPLIT CS

The Grass Widow side is pretty hit or miss for me. I've never really given a proper listen to there other material and wasn't too into it at the time but I gotta say their cover of "Black Hole" by the Urinals kills, as does the final track, "uncertain memory". If the Urinals cover wasn't enough of a tip-off, this is art punk, which can come with some pretty awful quirks. the third track for instance is some a cappella bullshit. Thankfully Rank/Xerox tears it up on the b-side. I saw them open for Face The Rail in Richmond a few months ago and, having been a huge post-punk nerd for almost half of my life, they blew me out of the water. Unfortunately nobody else at the show really gave a shit. Fer fans of Josef K, Gang of Four, Saccharine Trust. hititupfools

Holiday - Magnetic Fields

i could never get into "i" or "69 love songs" or anything else by them but i think this is one of the best synth pop albums i've ever heard. there are strange lyrics and hooks all over the place that consistently catch me off guard although i've probably listened to it a thousand times. These are love songs written by a lonely dude with a vivid imagination.

magnetic fields - holiday

Insubordinates LP/Demo

The demo is weirdo hardcore. The LP is a sci/fi surf punk record if such a thing exists. surf instrumental "Nagasaki" starts the record off with some 60's worship and includes a horn section. "Outer Limits" reminds me of b-movies and hp lovecraft. This ones for the nerds.

PAGAN YOUTH DEMO

just heard this via http://funeralstench.blogspot.com/. some really great punk from norway, apparently related to iceage in some way. its mean, and sloppy in all the right places

YADOKAI EP/STERILE ENVIRONMENT

sf punks playing pummeling japanese influenced hardcore. members of ecoli/basically all the good bay area bands. i didn't know what to think of them after i heard their demo, which is basically an assault of some of the weirdest riffs and most aggressively noisy guitars i'd heard in while, but the EP kind of consolidates all that in a really great way. anyway here's both. demo. EP.

SHOPPERS LP

This is the best thing i've heard this year so far. check it out for fans of sonic youth and freaky punk. hit it.