Posted by Vuk Varicak on February 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax So, twenty one years (and then some) later and it’s finally out. The speculation for this record raised many questions, all of which Kevin Shields recently answered in the most direct way imaginable – by actually releasing it, via mybloodyvalentine.org, where it’s still available for purchase. The fact that it was even released [...]
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 September 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax School Jerks – LP To say that 2012 has been a good year for Toronto hardcore would be a massive understatement, as it’s almost surreal how much has happened in so little time. You’ve got new records from Column Of Heaven, Direct Approach, Kremlin, Purity Control, and Total Trash, debuts from Violent Future [...]
Category Music, Reviews · Tags 2012, boston, brooklyn, Demo, floorpunch, gag, Hardcore Punk, LP, mind eraser, new york, no tolerance, nomos, NY, olympia, pollution, Punk, Review, school jerks, shoxx, terminal state, the rival mob, Toronto, toronto hardcore, world war 4
Posted by Alec McKay on September 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Solace and Stable return with an intelligent and often intricate second LP; The Systematic Erosion of Integrity – Which shouldn’t be much a surprise… Much of what works here also worked to great effect on 2009′s Adaptation and the Seclusive Remedy (a debut well respected around these parts). This is riff-driven melodic death [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on July 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Periphery return with a sophomore record that sadly feels less sophomoric than the “Ragtime Dandies” including self titled debut long play record, Periphery! The question as to whether we will still all “love that shit” will never really hold water. You just enter into a contract with this band when you start their records – [...]
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 Vuk Varicak on July 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Taking their name from a song by influential emo band, The Pine, Sore Eyelids play a pretty obvious blend of emo and shoegaze – not that there’s anything wrong about being obvious, especially since they dabble in both of these styles better than most modern bands take on one. My initial interest in [...]
Posted by Logan Broger on July 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Oh Rozay. Just when I thought he was done with the trap beats after hearing Self Made Vol. 2, he drops his biggest “banger” to date: “Hold Me Back”. With a triumphant chorus of “These niggas won’t hold me back/These hos won’t hold me back”, Rick Ross has released his most unapologetically obnoxious track to date. [...]
Posted by Logan Broger on July 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax To label myself “liberal” would be an understatement; my intolerance of intolerance can get pretty excessive, my awareness of it not seeming to matter in the slightest. I can be a total left wing asshole. So yeah, when I saw the trailer for Bobcat Goldthwait‘s God Bless America earlier this year, I was pretty stoked. [...]
