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 [...]
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Posted by Logan Broger on August 12, 2010 · 2 Comments
Follow @hearwax Black Churches rule. Seriously. They only have three releases to their name – a cassette tape split with Chalk Talk, the Black Gold EP, and what you are about to stream here: their 2010 Tour Demo. Sounding like a grittier Portugal The Man with whiskey on its breath, Black Churches play an energetic [...]
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Posted by Logan Broger on August 6, 2010 · 4 Comments
Follow @hearwax Today we have a stream of Poney‘s punked-out stonerfest Seamyth, an epic, thirteen-track journey of grimy guitars and war shouts. Amidst the more straightforward tracks, songs like the two-part “Skeleton Ship”, the percussion-driven “Velvet Coil (Sea Serpents)”, and the fifteen-minute closer “The Maelstrom” provide variation in numerous ways, ultimately making Seamyth much larger [...]
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Posted by Alec McKay on August 4, 2010 · 5 Comments
Follow @hearwax Often events in and of themselves, new Cephalic Carnage projects are easy tools to rally with against the naysayers who guffaw at the notion of experimental extreme. At the same time it feels almost insulting to label tracks like “Jihad” as anything except the most brutal of grinders. Let’s not start pontificating on [...]
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Posted by Mark Bushnoe on July 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax When The Binary Code‘s self-released, debut record made its way to Hearwax Media last year to be reviewed, it was praised for its keen sense of selectiveness, and criticized for its unwillingness to take risks. Priest serves both as a violent dismissal of the latter claim and as a cocktease to what people [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted by Gabriel Nylund on July 23, 2010 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax Much like the ill-fated ALF from late-1980s era of sitcom television, Amanda Palmer is back – though, not in Pog form, most certainly not in pog-form. While many may know Amanda Palmer as the goth/punk cabaret queen of The Dresden Dolls, and a startling powerhouse of piano talent with her own solo record [...]
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Posted by Alec McKay on July 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
Follow @hearwax Typical of most formal U-turns, Decrepit Birth‘s listenership often divides between premier full length …And Time Begins and the sophomore (but hardly sophomoric) Diminishing Between Worlds. The latter is the superior disc, though not necessarily out of spite regarding Time‘s brutal chassis; populist, West Coast death metal has had highs (Of What’s To [...]
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Posted by Logan Broger on July 20, 2010 · 8 Comments
By way of Chicago and New Jersey, but calling Chapel Hill home, It’s Just Vanity draw on the indie rock influence the town has become so famous for, while keeping the basement scene work ethic they grew up with.
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Posted by Logan Broger on July 13, 2010 · 8 Comments
Follow @hearwax Boris Smile – Rockets EP Artists use lyrics in all sorts of ways; emotional release, fantastical journeys, blatant anger. Boris Smile tell stories. Cute, poppy little stories. Perfect, considering their folky, multi-instrumental indie sound. Although Rockets opens with “Satellites”, a rather noisy waste of time, “Adventures With Rockets” is a pop gem (“here [...]
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