Chicago – Sleeping Village

Any Two Words – Shirley Temple of Doom

The Village — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:18:42 +0000

I’m sort of mad about how much I like this.

Buggin – DBM

The Village — Thu, 18 May 2023 16:14:46 +0000

Fun, but not silly old school hardcore.

Go get it.

Locrian – The Glare Is Everywhere And Nowhere Our Shadow

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:00:32 +0000

This one snuck up on me. I’ve liked previous Locrian releases (especially the Mamiffer collaboration), but I sort of forgot about the band. But I kept seeing that cube album cover and finally gave it a listen. It grabbed me right away. New Catastrophism is one of my favorite releases of 2022.

Russian Circles – Conduit

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:08:50 +0000

I forget sometimes that this band always delivers. Gnosis is one of my favorite albums of 2022.

Beach Bunny – Love Sick

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:00:51 +0000

This is catchy as all hell.

Get it here

Laura Jane Grace – Old Friend (Stay Alive)

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:52:56 +0000

Despite, not being on my list of favorite albums of 2020, Stay Alive seems to something I keep going back to.

This track, Old Friend (Stay Alive) was the first thing that really grabbed me and is a pretty perfect pandemic song (even if that wasn’t the intention). Now with repeat listening, there are just so many great songs on this album, The Mountain Song, Super Natural Possession and Hanging Tree and stand outs for me. I’d don’t think there is any filler on the album. I like it so much I’ve been revisiting Against Me! later albums I fully ignored.

Its great. Go get it it.

Sundowner – My Beautiful Ruins

Sun, 26 Aug 2018 23:53:19 +0000

I saw Sundowner like 5 or 6 years ago on the Revival Tour. It didn’t do it for me. To the piont that I fully wrote it/him off, despite being 1/3 of the Lawrence Arms (a band I like but don’t worship like so many seem to), and being the lead on my favorite Lawrence Arms songs.

Some how Neon Fiction ended up on some Spotify playlist or something and it just grabbed me. I listened to it a lot, but as it often happens with basically infinite music to listen to, I kind of forgot about it.

My mom actually bought me a copy of Neon Fiction for my birthday last week, and I’ve been revisiting it. Still great.

Harms Way – Last Man

Thu, 31 May 2018 00:57:20 +0000

I should hate everything about this. Growled hardcore with double base and predicable mosh parts preformed by a bunch of muscled and tattooed hardcore jocks. Look at this asshole. The picture up there is the only one I could find with the singer wearing a shirt. Ugh. I bet there are so many spin kicks at their shows.

Trash.

But its doing it for me right now.

I hate myself.

The Eradicator – Its Your Right

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:08:30 +0000

Everything about this is perfect and ridiculous.

The music style, the silly lyrics/theme the fact that it’s an entire band based on a single Kids In The Hall sketch.

I bet Eradicator shows are fun as hell.

DuPage County Hardcore – Aluminum Origami

The Village — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:46:51 +0000

This shouldn’t be my thing for a bunch of reasons, but it is and has been for years.

It seems weird that she’s now the Mormon drummer for Neon Trees, but Alison from Discount is in the Kills and Dead Weather and that seems weirder so whatever.