Any fan of aggressive music could’ve told you this. Any fan of aggressive music that you know probably already did tell you this. Now science is here to back it up. Researchers at the University […]
I finally saw Death Grips live. The noise-rap innovators kicked off their ‘posthumous’ world tour in my hometown of Seattle. Throngs of underage white kids lined up around the block the entire day of the show, […]
At times it seems like we’re moving in endless circles like a ferris wheel caught in some twisted carnival, seemingly progressive one moment in that we can entertain ideas like space travel, but hopelessly doomed the next as our […]
It’s Memorial Day weekend in Washington state: all the Pitchfork-hip bands are at the Gorge for the state’s mini-Coachella, Sasquatch!, and the underage kids flirting with hippie culture are at the free Folklife Festival. For those who […]
Arching back to a pre-Osbournes era in which Ozzy still had some flex on his metal legacy, getting the band back together for reunion mantle tour, Ozzfest, circa 1997, 13 is a roughly 13-years-in-the-making glory days […]
They famously called themselves “hardcore kids with leftover Slayer riffs” when they started in 1990. Now Converge are arguably the untainted face of aggressive punk. Propelled by LYRICIST Jacob Bannon, their abrasive sound has spread without any mainstream […]
