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While serious music and satirical cheekiness has been a favored combination for power violence since Spazz, Bandit ups the ante on both fronts, offering...
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Every day it feels like America’s Idiocracy comes into sharper relief. The frantic scramble of media to get one more goofy celebrity sponsorship of...
I read 1984 before social media was invented. I thought, wow, what an amazing novel about McCarthyism! But in the years since, I return...
I’m starting my week of right with a healthy dose of Malevich‘s experimental blackened grindcore. The eerie and intensely beautiful buzzing intro to their...
Grindcore didn’t start in the 90s but it does seem that the genre evolved more or less into its current identities during that decade,...
While serious music and satirical cheekiness has been a favored combination for power violence since Spazz, Bandit ups the ante on both fronts, offering...
While Illinois has built a strong reputation over the last few decades for its important role in the development of specific flavors hip hop...
“Is a dead cop relevant?” DEAF CLUB asked me that in their song “Ride With Cops, Shoot With Robbers” and it makes me think...
The last few years have seen an increasingly democratized grindcore, with more bands around the globe integrating fast and vicious flavors with their chosen...
Pyrithe are a gift to heavy music. Far too few are the bands who eschew genre trappings so completely. The duo’s artistic vision is...
When a band is labeled “sludge”, it typically brings to mind a pretty basic take on slow, raw metal. No frills just pummeling. And...