Archive for March, 2010

Flex Your Head red vinyl

Flex Your Head red vinyl

Dischord Records, who never stopped releasing records on vinyl even when most did, have been quite busy lately with the superior format. For about a year or so now, the label has been revisiting a lot of their back catalog that they in many cases they let go out of print on vinyl and have [...]


J.F.A. – To All Our Friends

J.F.A. - To All Our Friends

J.F.A. – To All Our Friends LP DC Jam Records I think the first JFA 7″, Blatant Localism, was the first hardcore 7″ I ever heard, if not the second (a Black Flag 7″ may have been the first, I’m getting too old to remember), regardless, that band of skate punks from the desert of [...]


Cannibal Corpse announce Tour and BC Rich guitar giveaway

Cannibal Corpse announce Tour and BC Rich guitar giveaway

Tampa, FL death metalers Cannibal Corpse are gearing up to hit the road in the band’s first headline run since the band headlined the Hot Topic stage on 2009’s Rockstar Mayhem Festival. Joining Cannibal Corpse on The Evisceration Plague Tour is 1349 (on select dates), Skeletonwitch and Lecherous Nocturne. Decibel & Metal Sucks Present: The [...]


Adolescents green vinyl

Adolescents green vinyl

Well those purple vinyl ones sure didn’t last long as I received another new color of the legendary first Adolescents LP in the mail on a brand new color courtesy of the mighty Frontier Records. This time out this SoCal punk artifact is available on limited edition opaque green vinyl. It looks like some sort [...]


Kreator, Voivod, +3 at Bottom Lounge 3/12

Friday night the Bottom Lounge played host to a big metal show featuring a couple big veterans playing alongside a few newer bands. The result was a little bit of something for everyone, providing the something you were looking for was fast, heavy and mostly brutal thrash or death metal. Newer band, Lazarus A.D. started [...]


Vintage Chicago punk releases for Record Store Day

Vintage Chicago punk releases for Record Store Day

Hot on the heels of their release of the DVD/LP of the Chicago punk rock documentary, You Weren’t There, Factory 25 is releasing two albums of vintage Chicago punk on vinyl for this year’s Record Store Day! DA’s Exclamation Point and Tutu & The Pirates’ Sub-Urban Insult Rock For The Anti-Lectual are the first two [...]


Naked Raygun new 7″ announced

Naked Raygun new 7" announced

According to the fine folks over at Riot Fest, the second 7″ in the Naked Raygun 7″ series will be released on June 15th. The band also plan to film their first music video in over 20 years and tour Europe for the first time in just about as many! Looks like it is going [...]


Shrinebuilder tour begins

Shrinebuilder tour begins

American doom supergroup Shrinebuilder – comprised of Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep), Scott “Wino” Weinrich” (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spririt Caravan) and Dale Crover (Melvins, Altamont) – today embark on their new US tour, kicking it off at The Casbah in San Diego, California. The band will pound the West Coast all week [...]