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BREAKING SOUNDS: Eat Skull Wild and Inside LP

by Todd Killings posted Tuesday Jun 30th, 2009

As any band with such an awesome name can attest, it's always best to flatten the expectations of your core group of fans and to show how much talent lies behind the moniker. Nothing displays that power more than the mind-blowing follow-up album to last year's Sick to Death album by Eat Skull. With all of the worthy praise the band has received for their abstract pop tendencies up until now, just one quick sonic glimpse of the tracks within their epic second LP, Wild and Inside, and you'll quickly see how well these guys can spin puke ...

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Miami is So Raw Fest Blasts Off Tonight!

by Diamond Boyz posted Friday Jun 19th, 2009

Miami, the city that brought you the death of Versace (RIP), the award-winning film Scarface (Fly pelican, c'mon pelican!), and the invention of snorting rails off of beautiful latina ass, is now bringing THEE first So Raw Festival. Why So Raw Festival? Because raw means being totally awesome, and this festival is going to be totally awesome. For those of you that have been sleeping under a rock, for the past two years Miami has been pumping out some choice nugz. This Heart Electric, a one man weirdo project, which consists of Miami's own Ricardo Guerrero, ...

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Idle Times Join Fresh & Onlys and Snakeflower 2 at the Hemlock

by Todd Killings posted Thursday Jun 18th, 2009

Thursday night in San Francisco at the Hemlock, don't sit around and let the world pass you by and be sure to make your way out to see one of the best factions of underground rock'n'roll take shape. If you're as smart as the rest of us, you already know that Snakeflower 2 are one of the Bay-Area's finest biker punk disciples, and with the nimble creativity of Matthew Melton at the helm, it's undoubtedly gonna be a vivid display of firepower with a slippery side of psychedelic ooze. If you haven't treated yourself to their debut Lp ...

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Big Neck Records Celebrates 10 Years

by Brett Cross posted Friday May 29th, 2009

The Pain in the Big Neck Festival gets underway this weekend in Buffalo, NY thrown by the now Reston, VA-based label Big Neck Records. Celebrating its 10 year anniversary, the label has stood as a launching pad for a number of now-legendary bands, including the formidable Baseball Furies, The Blowtops, Lost Sounds, and the Tyrades. Forming in the sonically abundant bend of the late 90s, Big Neck honed the hurricane of blistering and bellicose bands from, not only Buffalo, but for others like the beloved Blacks from Sweden. Now here we are, a decade has ...

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Nice Face Debuts Tonight with Nerve City, Gary War & Crystal Stilts at Don Pedro

by Todd Killings posted Thursday May 14th, 2009

Tonight in Brooklyn at Don Pedro, come out to witness a very special event, curated by Sacred Bones Records, as local festering mind erasers Nice Face finally climb upon the stage to dismantle and desecrate everything pure and holy, and mainly to show the feeble naysayers how home recording projects can indeed come to life with surprisingly great results. With a whirlwind guitar attack that blinds everything in its path, Nice Face tackles immensely addicting distorto guitar scree with Devo-esque hooks and pushes out punishing pop songs writhing and screaming with power and spine-tingling brilliance. If you're in ...

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Chrome Cranks Rise Again to Play New York Tonight at Santos House.

by Brett Cross posted Friday May 8th, 2009

The Chrome Cranks recently reemerged from the murky swamps of early 90s blues-stained punk to play a couple shows in New York: one last weekend, one tonight at the Santos Party House with The Friggs, and another next weekend at the Grasslands Gallery with Woman, Headless Hookers and Brownbird Ruby Relic. After a 12 year hiatus, The Chrome Cranks are releasing The Murder of Time (1993-1996) on Bang! Records. A double gatefold album capturing some of the band's most dangerous material durring their reign in the 90s. Known for scraping blues riffs across an emberred cauldron of noise ...

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Blank Dogs, Wizzard Sleeve, Jeremy Jay Turn Up the Silent Barn in NYC Saturday

by Brett Cross posted Monday Apr 20th, 2009

Tonight, Blank Dogs are back in their hometown of New York to play a show this Saturday at the Silent Barn (shhh) with the LA electro dream pop dude, Jeremy Jay, and those crazy martians from Alabama, Wizzard Sleeve. Now that the cloak has hit the floor and the mysteriousness of Blank Dogs has lifted like a blaring fog during their first US tour, it has fully revealed the illustrious and multifaceted talent of Mr. Mike Sniper who is, in fact, the brains behind the whole operation. Although those in-the-know early might have doubted ...

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