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Toronto’s BriefcaseFest calls itself a celebration of extreme music in Ontario, with a bill loaded with some of the province’s most intriguing heavy acts,...
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Punk and hardcore musicians are often whimsical about their creative endeavors. Especially for established musicians who can write fast and lay down competent recordings...
Mad at the world: 10 of the best Powerviolence records of 2023 Thanks to the this year’s miraculous, “has there been a glitch in...
When one can step back, as a writer, as a musician, as a fan, away from the seemingly endless surge of new releases and...
In 1965, when Gordon E. Moore observed that microchip transistors doubled approximately every two years, it’s impossible that he could have forseen that the...
Toronto’s BriefcaseFest calls itself a celebration of extreme music in Ontario, with a bill loaded with some of the province’s most intriguing heavy acts,...
Abstracter’s Tomb of Feathers actually came out nearly a year ago and sleeping on it was a huge mistake. This sprawling album from the...
This has been brewing a while. It’s been three years since Year of No Light’s last full-length Ausserwelt and in that time the French...
You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me is Thrill Jockey’s latest record to be released onto the world and it’s definitely a veritable feast...
Look at the artwork that adorns this split release. It’s a forest or hillside that, at any other time would, have been a picturesque...
The Body are a band that one can really feel have a masterpiece brewing inside of them, an album that sees them transcend their...