Street Sects - “Rat Jacket” Rating: A- Stream and buy the EP here. Street Sects is an experimental music duo from Texas who, since their inception in 2013, has taken the world of industrial music by a storm with their aggressive twist on t…
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Though always surrounded by music, Alex Brown became heavily invested in it back in 2010, when he first listened to “Colors” by Between the Buried and Me. Other than being a music critic, he also a creative writer, writing stories on his own website, The Blackbelt Nihilist. His other hobbies including playing video games such as the Paper Mario and Kingdom Hearts series, and watching cartoons and anime, with favorites being BoJack Horseman and Neon Genesis EvangelionInstagram: @btwn_evangelion_nd_meTwitter: @btwn_eva_and_me Photo taken by: Daniel Lutsker
Street Sects - “Rat Jacket” Rating: A- Stream and buy the EP here. Street Sects is an experimental music duo from Texas who, since their inception in 2013, has taken the world of industrial music by a storm with their aggressive twist on t…
Street Sects- The Kicking Mule The Kicking Mule drops October 26th via The Flenser. Preorder here. Street Sects have quickly become one of my favorite modern music acts. Forming in 2013, they released their two Gentrification EPs the fol…
The Crooked Sound- “Lotus-eaters” Rating: 6/10 Listen to the EP here If you’re active in the Connecticut hardcore scene, you’ve probably seen the name The Crooked Sound pop up quite a few times. Hell, if you’ve been reading this blog, you…
The Fever 333- “Made An America”Stream the EP and/or buy merch here. Last Independence Day, in the parking lot of Randy’s Donuts in California, three musicians performed a 12 minute exhibition that was nothing short of exhilarating. These…
The Weeknd- “My Dear Melancholy,” Listen to the EP here. In March 2011, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye dropped his debut mixtape under his moniker The Weeknd. House of Balloons received widespread acclaim from both music consumers and critics for…
This False Ghost - “Love Dies//Rewind”Rating: 8/10You can follow them on Facebook while they make their Bandcamp, or check out their EP as Tamerlane This False Ghost is a hardcore band from Anchorage, Alaska. Just a few weeks before the r…
Tyler, the Creator- Scum Fuck Flower Boy Rating: 9/10 You can listen to the LP here Back in 2007, Tyler, the Creator started the music collective known as Odd Future with Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean, among others; underground rap and R…
Wintersun - “The Forest Seasons”Rating: No.You can fund these con-artists’ sauna here. Wintersun is a band from Finland that started as the solo side-project of former Ensiferum frontman, Jari Mäenpää. This quickly became his main focus,…
The Dillinger Escape Plan: A Retrospective After twenty years, what’s there left to say that hasn’t been said?The shadow of the Dillinger Escape Plan looms long and dark over heavy music. You can’t outrun them; they’ve all but copyrighted…
2017 was a fucking weird year, to say the very least, but I went to some of the best concerts I’ve ever been in my whole life. Here, I’ll be counting down the twenty-five best, because the pressure of narrowing it down to ten like I did la…