WHO: Angine de Poitrine WHAT: Live at KEXP WHY: Because music this shocking doesn’t come along very often. It’s the band that’s all over your Instagram feeds! It’s microtonal math rock, but I don’t think the audio recording does it justice. It’s the bizarre...
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017by Rashid Khalidi It’s funny how caught up we can get in our lives where we don’t make an effort to learn more about the things that interest us. How’s that...
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Territories’ Colder Now LP. I waited far, far longer to review this album than I had any right to. The reason I waited to review Territories’ Colder Now LPwas because I wanted the season to match the album cover –...
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I’ve got a love/hate relationships with the Spits. I love them because they’re one of the best bands out there right now. Terribly underappreciated but making some of the most fun and accessible punk music of all time. I hate them because last time I saw them live...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Do You Really Wanna Know? LP by Plizzken. I confess that European punk (the stuff from mainland Europe – not from the British Isles) has often been a pretty hard sell, to me. I don’t mean that to come off as a...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into 45 Adapters’ Unstoppable LP. After having released a series of records of different sizes and speeds since the band formed in 2008 (to date, the band has released six EPs, splits and singles), it’s kind of funny...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Modify The Sacred LP by Seized Up. Let’s get this out of the way first, because it’s almost never the thing that metal heads like to read: as metallic as Modify The Sacred is, it’s impossible to deny that...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Overtime 12” EP by SLIP~ons. It might read as being anti-climactic but, on SLIP~ons’ new Overtime EP, the Vancouver-based band establishes that its last release was not intended to establish any new musical...
Lord of the Fliesby William Golding I just finished this and I just gotta talk about it. I’ve always known about the Lord of the Flies allegory: a group of kids are stranded on an island and try to keep order in spite of their tribal inclinations. I think the...