Laminated

I recently got another release from the growing punk/hardcore/indie/whatever label KOI Records. This time I found the first edition of KOI’s Split Series. The label is almost completely based around vinyl, only releasing one CD so far and about 5 vinyl records. This 7″ is a split between Thirty3 and Los Dryheavers.
I think Los […]

It’s strange how much different music can sound on a turntable opposed to on CD format. I received Blacklisted’s “…The Beat Goes On” on CD months ago and enjoyed it, but I wasn’t really blown away by the disc. I just wrote it off as typical hardcore that just happened to be on a great […]

This Greek record label called Run Devil Run has sent me stuff before. Strange CDs in really oddly-sized digi-packs that won’t fit in any normal CD case holder. Not that I’m familiar with at least. Anyway, the previous records this label has sent me have all been really different. To be blunt, I didn’t enjoy […]

And more importantly, who names an album I Farm “So My Kids Won’t Have To”? As soon as I saw this album I thought it was a complete joke. Specifically the artwork. It looks like something someone made in Photoshop just because they had a few minutes to kill. Buildings and clouds in cartoon form? […]

I design the website for Reno, Nevada DIY punk label Spacement Records, so whenever they put out a new release (almost always on vinyl), they send it to me, and I gladly review it for them. This time around, Dog Assassin are releasing their second Spacement 7″ titled “Human Satisfaction”, and I must say that […]

Hardcore label Deathwish, Inc. has signed two new California bands. One is Life Long Tragedy, who I don’t know too much about, and the second is Final Fight, who I’ve seen live a few times because they’re from Los Angeles.
Now I think it’s a bit weird that Final Fight got signed to Deathwish. The band […]

I used to be a huge AFI fan until about a year ago. I just got so tired of their attempts to be “dark” and I just couldn’t stand their style anymore, especially on Sing The Sorrow.
I just read on punknews.org that AFI’s upcoming album will be entitled Decemberunderground, which seems a bit random. Apparently […]

I am not a Boysetsfire fan. In fact, I hate the band at this point after having to sit through a couple of their previous releases. Before The Eulogy: Reissues, Odds and Ends, Rarities is a twenty-track record that compiles BSF’s b-sides and rare tracks from throughout their career as a band. This obviously means […]

Cursed are going to be releasing a new EP/7″ on Goodfellow Records this summer. The band will enter the studio this month to record a couple new songs and some covers for the EP. The 7″ is apparently going to be limited according to Lambgoat.
This is going to be a bit strange since Cursed usually […]

So I turn 18 at the end of this month, and a co-worker of mine wanted to know what I wanted for my birthday. I told her to get me the Refused DVD since that is coming out in the US just a few days before my big day. I am a Refused fanatic, so […]