Posted by Logan Broger on December 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Hyperbole aside, 2012 may have been the best year music has ever had. The envelope was pushed, welcome new trends started, and most of all, narrowing it down to ten albums was near impossible. But I managed, and as a result, have come up with the following list. Feel free to tell me [...]
Category Articles, Music, Reviews · Tags 2012, best, Code Orange Kids, Grizzly Bear, Hardcore, Indie, Kendrick Lamar, Killer Mike, Metal, rap, records
Posted by Logan Broger on October 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Last Monday, after rehearsing some new material, my bandmates and I started discussing possibilities for our new band name. What word – or combination of words – would be a perfect descriptor of our music? We gave examples of our favourite names: Cursed, Baring Teeth, and New Lows came to mind first. Gaza, on the other hand, [...]
Posted by Vuk Varicak on July 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Hoax – 3rd 7” By now, Hoax are pretty notorious for their blackened-weirdo-anthemic hardcore, or whatever you want to call it; probably even more so, for leaving showgoers bloodied after their performances. I’ve always thought that the punk community should be a haven for the freaks and weirdos of society, and this is [...]
Category Music, Reviews · Tags 2012, 7", a mountain far, anasazi, brain fever, calgary, d-beat, dawn of humans, death rock, emoviolence, goth rock, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, hardware records, hearwax, hoax, kremlin, Music, painkiller recods, post-punk, Punk, Review, Screamo, Toronto, toxic state
Posted by Alec McKay on July 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax It’s like Jeff Lohrber and Enabler knew just what extreme music needed upon forming in 2009; a band that covered all the bases. The splintering trends in the more niche sects of modern hardcore now sees many bands specializing in their fields while decreasing the scope of technique and ambition in their releases… [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on May 20, 2011 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me, the mouthful, is as much an overstatement as Touché Amoré‘s self-assured school of hardcore knocks. Though overwhelmingly been-there, you’d be hard pressed to find a band that plays done-that with this much bravado. Meeting at the same ends as last year’s confused Lucky Me (from the [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on August 18, 2010 · 4 Comments
Follow @hearwax A follow up to a follow up that followed a tough act to follow is… a tough act to follow. I heard you like Comeback Kid, so you can follow your tough act while you… Anyway, Symptoms And Cures is finally welcomed by the ears, which in all respects should be another strong [...]
Category Music, Reviews · Tags blogspot, cbk, comeback, cures, Download, Hardcore, kid, leak, mediafire, MP3, pop punk, Review, Stream, symptoms, victory
Posted by Mark Bushnoe on July 25, 2010 · 3 Comments
Follow @hearwax In 2003, Ion Dissonance came out with their first album, entitled Breathing Is Irrelevant, and it caught a lot of people’s attention. It was noisy and abrasive, it was technical, and it had intelligent lyrics that were delivered with a level of passion that has still not been met by a vocalist on [...]
Category Music, Reviews · Tags blogspot, Canada, cursed, dissonance, Download, Hardcore, ion, leak, lol, mediafire, Metal, MP3, rapidshare, Review, Stream, tech
Posted by Nick Gergesha on July 5, 2010 · 16 Comments
Follow @hearwax Starkweather are of a diametrical nature. The band has stood on its own for over twenty years, a flagship of the methods in which disparate genres of music can be incorporated creatively into a cohesive and enjoyable structure. While other bands have cheekily stolen templates from other artists to create “metal-core,” “death-core,” and [...]
Category Interviews, Music · Tags croatoan, crossbearer, Deathwish, Hardcore, Interview, Jacob Bannon, Metal, Rennie Resmini, Starkweather, This Sheltering Night, Todd Forkin, tre mccarthy
Posted by Vuk Varicak on April 8, 2010 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax How does one define music? This is, indeed, a very broad question, but, nonetheless, of great significance to the subject matter. Webster probably said it best as, “An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and dynamics”. The definition stresses [...]
Posted by Vuk Varicak on March 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax Any Generation Y-er will remember the day when verse-chorus-verse was king, and songs about how much your parents suck were still relevant. Blink 182, Sum 41, and The Offspring are all significant bands, in their own right, but their music was hardly sophisticated even in its prime. For the most part, they were [...]
