Stalins of Sound

Tank Tracks LP Slovenly, 2014 While their singles on Volar Records were fun electropunk that paid homage to Métal Urbain […]

Mind Control

Mind Control 7″ EP Forward Records, 2015 Sure, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover nor a record by

Mitraille

Hoopschroot 7″ EP Belly Button Records, 2019 Belgium’s Mitraille crank out six amped-up bangers on this EP that take the bursting-at-the-seams energy of modern

Best Reissues of 2018

The Carbonas – Your Moral Superiors: Singles and Rarities 2xLP (Goner) For whatever reason The Carbonas never quite clicked for me despite many

Best Singles/EPs/Demos of 2018

Brutal Birthday – Commotion 7″ (Total Punk) You can always rely on Total Punk to dredge up the ugliest punk from around the globe

Best Albums of 2018

Blac Kolor – Awakenings (Hands Productions) Like metal, it takes a bit of digging to find buried treasure in a music genre that’s

Prong

Force Fed LP (Spigot, 1988) Seeing Decibel magazine give Prong’s Beg to Differ album the Hall of Fame treatment made

Best Albums of 2016

The Blind Shake – Celebrate Your Worth LP (Goner) After 12 years of flexin’ midwest muscle, this Minnesota trio has honed their craft into

Mick Harris

Hednod Sessions 2xCD Hidden Art, 2005 There’s a poetic beauty in the fact that the inventor of the blastbeat — that

Wet Ones

Wet Ones LP Black Gladiator, 2016 For too many years the musical exports of the Kansas City area rarely captured

Best Albums of 2015

Andy Human and the Reptoids – Andy Human and the Reptoids (S-S) No other album had the ability to get

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