According to a recent update from their official blog, Seattle, WA’s infamous powerviolence duo, Iron Lung, are apparently going to be hosting a TED Talk. For those unaware, TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading” and draw in speakers from the realms of “Technology, Entertainment and Design”. TED Talks have ranged from presentations featuring Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs speaking on the value and current stigmatization of work to the well-known interviewer Nardwuar speaking on the do-it-yourself aspects of journalism. Listed below are some of the issues the abstract powerviolence duo will be speaking on: Continue reading »
One of my favorite bands to emerge in the last few years: Heartless have exploded forth a new 7” entitled Certain Death and, as with the rest of Heartless’ material, it is a force to be reckoned with. This band cannot, and will never, do any wrong as far as I’m concerned. Their aggressive—nay, pissed off—approach to bludgeoning hardcore is a sound for sore ears. It’s pleasantly brutal and exquisitely destructive. 
I loves me some Blind To Faith, man. This band is incredible and I have pretty much followed them since their inception. The band has released a new music video for their song “Under The Heptagram” which comes off of their new EP. The EP will be released by A389 Recordings at some point this year. Oh, and this video… 
A few days ago Lane 
Pinski Pavlov, who 
When you throw eighty-three tracks from nine different bands on a single CD, you immediately have my attention. I am a huge fan of grindcore, as you all should know by now, and my good friend Andy, of Captain Three Leg, has sent me a spectacular nine-band split titled Incident At Ape Canyon and never before have I sat down with something this huge to review. I figured it would take me a while, so I sat down with at my computer with a juice and my electric cigarette, determined to push through this wall of vicious grindcore. I know a few of the bands on this album, but there are a lot that I don’t know. I look forward to getting schooled on this one. 
