Weekend Nachos - Worthless

 listen to Obituary, as a preview to the record by Weekend Nachos

This has been on virtually every other blog, but here it is –once more- to exclude all chances that it might have missed your attention. American powerviolence band Weekend Nachos (myspace), crushes with the highest quality of raw and grinding noise. Effortlesly tumbling from hella fast hardcore grind into brutal slow sludge, with layer upon layer of guitar-feedback and face-melting hooks In both extremes of tempos. Across the board, every song has the feel of raw and bleak emotions oozing out, getting under your skin, scratching and clawing on its way back out, through your every cavity. This is the highest quality creative musicianship I have heard in both extremely fast and slow -basically- trashy and noisy music.
Last fm tags as hardcore, powerviolence, power violence, hardcore punk, grindcore 

buy their merch from an online store, via a link in the image above!

Out of the box on sunday IX

listen to Needy Girl by Chromeo as a preview

being against Pop-music for the sake of being against it, is like running for president of all people with their heads up their asses. If you can't think of anything playing on a daily bases, on whatever radio station that sucks least, you might want to reconsider if it's because you never pay attention to it or because you're too tr00 kvlt whateverthefuck. because that's usually the options one has in that scenario. while it depends of a matter of taste from one artist to another. with Chromeo (Myspace), on the other hand, I can not imagine anyone would think anything less than THE WORLD of their funky music. just a duo of one vocalist/guitarist that occasionally whips out a keytar or keyboard and a one keyboardist with a bunch of synthesizers and a talk box. 

Last fm tags as electronic, funk, electro, dance, electronica

Spark Is A Diamond - Keep Your Eyes Off The Price

 listen to Urgent by Spark Is A Diamond

Spark Is A Diamond (Myspace) was what Death From Above 1979 would sound like, if their vocalist sounded more like the screams from the chick (pardon my language) in Rollo Tomassi or even Oathbreaker. Funky, groovy and highly all in all danceable instrumentation with the most gritty screaming vocals. This band featured members from Morning For The Masses and Fall River’s signature raspy shouting. This is their first release of the two records they ever made.a n intro and 4 songs, of which most made their return on the next full album and were the best on that release, so… there you have it.

another defunct band that can only be found on Interpunk, here

Vaccine - Human Hatred

 listen to Fuck Your Faith by Vaccine, as a preview

Vaccine (website) is a straight edge powerviolence band, from America, that takes the prize for fastest music in my entire music library. 

these 10 songs clock in after 4,1 mins and have the potential of blowing your brains through your sphincter. the lyrics deal with mad as hell animosity, from a straight edge point of view. 

Last fm tags as: edgeviolence,powerviolence, punk,straight edge

click the picture above, to be redirected to the website from which you can purchase the album.

Blind To Faith/Gehenna split

 listen to R.J. by Blind To Faith

To see a Belgian band put out a split record with an American band seems quite exciting. For it to be with a band from the Crimethinc record label even more so. For that Belgian band to share members with the bands Amenra, Rise & Fall, Insult and Reproach and the American band to be Gehenna is just excessive. These both bands slay. This features songs from both on a single record , that makes for one of the most incredible splits I possess. 2 grinding blackened hardcore bands, as someone, whose name I will withold, would portray them
Last fm tags as hardcore, metallic hardcore, thrash, incubate, incubate 2010, 

buy the record here. it looks absolutely sweet.

Out Of The box on sunday VII

it's easy to take post-rock music for granted and fail to see what beauty it is based upon. it takes artists like Blueneck to shake me up. fact is they did it with the element I love most in this genre: breathtaking and angelic vocals and occasional classical instrumentation. Blueneck could be compared to something in between recent radiohead and the EF songs that have those cutesy/angelic vocals in them (which are my favorite of both bands).

Last fm tags as  post-rock, ambient, atmospheric, british, post rock

order one of their records from their label, right here

The Shitty Limits - Here Are The Limits

 listen to In Your Shoes by the shitty limits

my, my, my. I was absolutely smitten with this band, after seeing them live. around that time, I was wildly into The Dead Kennedys and early The Hives, because of that up-tempo garage/surf rock sound. this band -especially live- displays everything that I love about that certain indefinite guitar sound that I vaguely described, just now. the mangled and pourly articulated vocals sound like the singer is extremy drunk or trying to outshine David Yow in garbling his speech. acting like a fit Iggy Pop on stage adds to this all the more. so all in all a most brilliant hotchpotch of elements combined in one band.
Last fm tags as garage punk, punk, hardcore punk, garage rock, hardcore

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Some Mistakes - Glamorous Thoughts

 listen to You Have Killed The Boy by Some Mistakes

American  hardcore band Some Mistakes (myspace) plays some of the most desperatele and tormented punk music out there. after hearing this,  you know there is no light at the end of the tunnel, no matter what anyone else says. And as much as feeling like that sucks, I keep repeating this entire record all over to stumble my way through.

Last fm as hardcore, screamo, melodic hardcore, punk,progressive 

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Vogue - Pompshit

 listen to Innerlijk Hinderlijk Kinderlijk by Vogue

Belgian band Vogue (blog) delivers swampy and raunchy hardcore punk with a very sloppy rock’n roll vibe. Extremely ironic lyrics about nihilistic topic,s uttered through garbling vocals. Across the board, this music feels like The Jesus Lizard playing Black Flag songs on a bad valium trip, or maybe like Pissed jeans. And I mean ALL of the above in the most positive way imaginable. This band will single handedly save music in general.

Last fm tags as  hardcore, belgium

Out Of The box on sunday VI

Chain Of Missing Links by The Books

Does anyone remember the song ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’ by The Avalanches? A song entirely driven by sampling spoken extracts from various movies and tv-shows,  merged into one sequence of strange and inconsistant quotes with a minimal undertone of electronic music (a drum, a bass and some other seemingly random sounds). This is the foundation to The Books’s (page) entire sound. I always felt like there was more tot that song I mentioned, and these guys bring it quite masterfully.

Last fm tags as experimental, electronic, indie, electronica,indietronica 

buy this album from their record label, here