TAG: CHICAGO

I’m sort of mad about how much I like this.

Fun, but not silly old school hardcore.

Go get it. 

This one snuck up on me. I’ve liked previous Locrian releases (especially the Mamiffer collaboration), but I sort of forgot about the band. But I kept seeing that cube album cover and finally gave it a listen. It grabbed me right away. New Catastrophism is one of my favorite releases of 2022.

I forget sometimes that this band always delivers. Gnosis is one of my favorite albums of 2022.

This is catchy as all hell.

Get it here

Despite, not being on my list of favorite albums of 2020, Stay Alive seems to something I keep going back to.

This track, Old Friend (Stay Alive) was the first thing that really grabbed me and is a pretty perfect pandemic song (even if that wasn’t the intention). Now with repeat listening, there are just so many great songs on this album, The Mountain Song, Super Natural Possession and Hanging Tree and stand outs for me. I’d don’t think there is any filler on the album. I like it so much I’ve been revisiting Against Me! later albums I fully ignored.

 Its great. Go get it it.

I saw Sundowner like 5 or 6 years ago on the Revival Tour. It didn’t do it for me. To the piont that I fully wrote it/him off, despite being 1/3 of the Lawrence Arms (a band I like but don’t worship like so many seem to), and being the lead on my favorite Lawrence Arms songs. 

Some how Neon Fiction ended up on some Spotify playlist or something and it just grabbed me. I listened to it a lot, but as it often happens with basically infinite music to listen to, I kind of forgot about it.

My mom actually bought me a copy of Neon Fiction for my birthday last week, and I’ve been revisiting it. Still great.

I should hate everything about this. Growled hardcore with double bass and predictable mosh parts performed by a bunch of muscled and tattooed hardcore jocks. Look at this asshole. The picture up there is the only one I could find with the singer wearing a shirt. Ugh. I bet there are so many spin kicks at their shows.

Trash.

But it's doing it for me right now.

I hate myself.

Everything about this is perfect and ridiculous. 

The music style, the silly lyrics/theme the fact that it’s an entire band based on a single Kids In The Hall sketch. 

I bet Eradicator shows are fun as hell.

This shouldn’t be my thing for a bunch of reasons, but it is and has been for years.

It seems weird that she’s now the Mormon drummer for Neon Trees, but Alison from Discount is in the Kills and Dead Weather and that seems weirder so whatever.

I think the term “noise-rock” is pretty dumb, but I can’t seem to get enough of it these days. 

This album is pretty great, a little heavy on the song intros, but good.

Go can download the entire album for “Name Your Own Price” from the band’s bandcamp page or buy a vinyl copy. 

There was a time that Milemarker was one of my absolute favorite bands. I always overlooked this song though. Its nearly eleven minutes long and there is no shouting, so I skipped it. But listening to it again (and again as it turns out) its every bit has heavy as anything the band ever did.