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by Oliver Sheppard Blue Cross began as a side-poject of Ottawa, Ontario’s Germ Attak. While Germ Attak played loud, brash, hard-drinking punk rock and...
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What is Oi Wave, you may ask? It’s a synth-heavy dance party with aggressive gang vocals, a romantic atmosphere crashed by fists and leather....
On September 14th, 1985, I was a 5 year old with no clue who Metallica was. I had no delinquent, thrasher older brother or sister...
We’ve spent decades building robots to replace the parts of existence we think are inconvenient or unfulfilling, but if history should have taught us...
Everyone was likely waiting to hear what Nekus‘ followup to last year’s massive debut 2LP Sepulchral Divination was gonna sound like. Well, the wait...
by Oliver Sheppard Blue Cross began as a side-poject of Ottawa, Ontario’s Germ Attak. While Germ Attak played loud, brash, hard-drinking punk rock and...
The S-Haters were a British dark punk band that existed from about 1976 until 1985. They played — well in advance of the trend...
(Note: This interview first appeared at the No Doves Fly Here site a few months ago.) The Bay Area’s Alaric have received positive attention...
What would it sound like if Killing Joke and Motorhead had collaborated in 1982? You know, when Killing Joke were working on their apocalyptic,...
by Oliver Sheppard There aren’t a lot of American neofolk bands, let alone many that are very good. Wisconsin’s Wreathes, however, are both American...
Vancouver, British Columbia’s Spectres released one of the finest LPs of 2010, Last Days. “[T]he dark side of 80’s anarcho punk and the coldness...