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Rock on the Cowbell Slowly
Posted by Sarah 5 weeks ago
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Show Review: fun.
Posted by Aaron H 2 months ago
One again, fun. are on the road and Scene Point Blank was… read more...

Musink Fest: A Review
Posted by Aaron H 3 months ago
I had the pleasure of attending the 5th annual Musink Fest in Costa Mesa,… read more...

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Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Leave Your Phone At Home

Regular Columns: Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Leave Your Phone At Home

Blag Dahlia is the singer for the Dwarves and host of RadioLikeYouWant.com, a weekly podcast. He is the author of…Read more...

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Pickathon lineup set

Posted 1 hour ago in Shows by Loren

Pickathon 2012, an annual festival at Pendarvis Farm near Portland, OR, has announced several key artists for the August 3-5 event, including Neko Case, Thee Oh Sees, Dr. Dog, The War on Drugs, Blitzen Trapper, and more.

The eco-friendly festival has announced that no single-use items will be distributed by vendors, meaning attendees will receive branded stainless steel containers for beer, water, dishware, etc. The move last year reduced total waste by 21% per attendee.

See below for a full lineup thus far.

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Crucial Blast sampler available for download

Posted 4 hours ago in MP3s by Loren

Crucial Blast sampler available for download

Crucial Blast has issued Heresies, an online compilation downloadable here, sampling the label's 2012 releases with 23 tracks ranging from Gnaw Their Tongues, Wold, Funerary Call, and more.

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Album Reviews

Ian Anderson

Thick as a Brick 2

Ian Anderson – Thick as a Brick 2

If there's anything movies have taught us, it's that sequels almost always suck in comparison to the original. While there aren't nearly as many sequels in the musical world, occasionally an artist will go back and revisit one of the ideas that made them famous in the first place. In almost all of these cases, such as with Mike Oldfield's endless Tubular Bells reinterpretations, the final product winds up, for lack of a better term, blowing. It languishes as a pale imitation of the original, merely a failed attempt to recapture one's own past greatness. But then, on that rare…read more

Looking for an Answer

Eterno Treblinka

Looking for an Answer – Eterno Treblinka

Spain's Looking For An Answer have been around long enough that to play grind is generally to be compared to those who have come before you and possibly just be forgotten by all but the people who are devout listeners. What tends to set the band apart is a defined addition of more tempo changes and death metal related parts. That is not to forget their primary purpose: fury and speed, which the band has in spades.So this, their 3rd full length and first for Relapse, comes with some anticipation as this is probably the first look most of the…read more

Old Man Gloom

No

Old Man Gloom – No

“THEY PLAYED ‘ZOZOBRA’! THEY PLAYED ‘ZOZOBRA’!” Thank you for allowing me to get that out of my system as the shock of seeing Old Man Gloom resume the gloom only just recently is still fresh and firmly entrenched in my mind, and seeing as my wait to see the Old Man Gloom Institute for Simian Research has been much more than a decade in the making, reveling in the moment is something that I am still savoring with each memory (and the show was chock full of great moments such as their playing “Rape Athena” and the aforementioned “Zozobra”); while…read more