5.15.2022

The Pulses - 10 Song Demo CD EP LP [2010 Wolf Dog Records]

 


Looks like these songs were put out in 2000 as part of a much longer CD, pre-Dirtnap Records, and re-issued on vinyl in 2010. Features Shannon McConnell from the Fall-Outs, and like the Fall-Outs, this is Seattle garage rock, except rawer and less jangly. Excellent nonetheless. 

5.13.2022

Various - Is This A Dream Or Just Random Sounds Of Awakening [1993 Morphius Records]

 Various -  Cities And Countries Volume I: Is This A Dream Or Just Random Sounds Of Awakening album cover

This comp is a great distillation of where my head was in 1993: Pile Up, Stanford Prison Experiment, Wool, Guzzard, etc. Lots of great stuff here, but one band I've never heard of really stood out for me: Octopus. Good god I love this sort of shit. Someone please tell me more about this band. 

5.12.2022

Bugout Society - Yo! Baby, 'Sup [1992 Drunken Shaolin Records]

I'm not a scholar of NYHC, so crucify me if I've got it all wrong, but for me this comes out of that late 80's early 90's splinter of NYHC that leaned hard in to the tongue-in-cheek standard set by Murphy's Law. I'm thinking specifically of Mucky Pup. Was there a name for it? Or was basically just these three bands? I dunno. Educate me.

5.08.2022

Various - Twentybandcomp [1998, Raw Energy]

If you can believe it, this is a comp with twenty bands on it. 

I originally bought this because Armed And Hammered was on it, and Armed And Hammered is awesome (their track here isn't remotely indicative of how good they they can be). But this is chock full of good stuff. Just a sampling of the bands on here: Bodyjar, Mindsnare, Jersey, Toe To Toe, Frenzal Rhomb, Downtime and Marilyn's Vitamins.     

5.05.2022

The Cage You Call A Chest - No Boys Allowed [2015 Contrition Recordings]


The screamo continues... 2 songs, 4 minutes. This is ripped from the cassette, so for a cleaner version, throw them a few bucks at their bandcamp page. 

5.01.2022

The Northman

Saw The Northman, my first movie theatre experience since 2019. It was....good? Ish? Definitely not the movie I was expecting to see - I was expecting more history and less mythology, but that's on me. Visually, Robert Eggers again delivers. Very glad I saw this in Imax or Titan XC or whatever the hell it's called. 

My only real problem was with casting. I realize to get a movie with this sort of budget greenlit, you are going to have to get some A-Listers on board. Alexander Skarsgård and Claes Bang were excellent. Nicole Kidman and Ethan Hawke were fine (I think? I'm not the one to determine how convincing their accents were). But in the streaming age, a lot of people are now very comfortable watching movies in native tongues and reading subtitles. And those same people are aware that there are great actors around the world. So would I have preferred The Northman to be in Norse with an all Scandinavian (looking at you Sidse Babett Knudsen and Pilou Asbæk [Yes, I loved Borgen]) cast? Yes. Would that movie have ever actually been made? No. 

Suddenly want to listen to Immortal tho....


Jiyuna - The Devil Is Waiting In The Palace...Rush Courageously [2005 IFB Records]

Jiyuna! - "The Devil Is Waiting In The Palace... Rush Courageously." album cover

Florida screamo, but screamo in an early to mid 90's way.  I think all artwork for everything they did was handmade, so check out their discography