Song of the Day - Halflife

Kite Party - Halflife from Come On Wandering (2014)

New Kite Party. Half Life 3 confirmed.


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Theme of the Week - .GIF Week!

With the raise of WEBM and new file compressing technology, everyone's favorite moving pictures, .gif may be becoming a thing of the past. To celebrate the mighty legacy of .gif, I have decided this week to "dump" by favorite wrestling .gif's with the corresponding matches that they took place in.

I hope you enjoy!

Song of the Day - Fedora

Hive Bent - Fedora from Dyatlov (2014)

A song about everyone's favorite hat, the fedora.


Noisey Baltimore noise rock from Baltimore.

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Song of the Day - Little Fang

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Little Fang from Enter The Slasher House (2014)

"Little Fang" is from Avey Tare of Animal Collective's new solo project entitled, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. Not only is this song simply catchy but it's also super accessible for an Animal Collective-related project, though I can't say that about the rest of Enter The Slasher House. That's to be expected really, I have never been able to get into anything AC has released beginning to end without a few skips or multiple listens.

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Song of the Day - Faith Resigned

Yautji - Faith Resigned from Songs of Descent (2014)

More Heavy stuff!

Yautji are a mix of all sorts of pissed off sludgy hardcore and metal noise all tangled up in a big sharp clump and ready for you to step on it late at night as you quietly-as-possible walk to the bathroom. Your foot will bleed and you will be shouting, waking your girlfriend up and her drunk roommate. In this short yet excruciatingly painful moment you will confess your hatred for your shitty job and your mundane life. The next day you will buy a motorcycle and drive it far, far away. Eventually, you will ride it into the sun and mesh your skin and bones with the motorcycle's shiny metal and leather, becoming apart of it as much as it will be apart of you and you will ride the solar system from there on out as a mecha-humanoid motorcycle bounty hunter.

Never to return.


Yautji are also three guys from Coliseum, Nameless Cults, and Gnarwhal respectively.

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Song of the Day - The Thinker

Locktender -  The Thinker from Rodin (2014)

Some excellent new material from the post hardcore meets post metal Cleveland outfit, Locktender.

Always different, always heavy.



Along with their new 4 song LP, Rodin, Locktender also have a new 7" split with Amber out now!

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Song of the Day - Clotheslined

Special Explosion - Clotheslined from The Art of Mothering (2014)

A nice little indie rock track about getting clotheslined.



Something different from Topshelf Records.

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Song of the Day - High School Field Trip to Murder Island

Bearcubbin'! - High School Field Trip to Murder Island from Girls With Fun Haircuts (2014)

Loop-happy math rock from the other Portland, Bearcubbin'! A must-listen for anyone that is a fan of music that doesn't go the way one thinks it will.



This is seriously awesome.

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Song of the Day - Over the Sirens

Solids - Over the Sirens from Blame Confusion (2014)

Some more new stuff. This ones from Solids of Montreal who are currently on tour in North America. Sounds sort of emo fuzzy, sort of garage rock-y, and sort of noise pop-y.


Mont-really good, Canada.

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Song of the Day - Psalms

The Caution Children - Psalms from Safe Crusades / No Judgements / And Baby (2014)

Post hardcore meets shoegaze-y, this is Jacksonville, Florida's The Caution Children.

Not your average anything.

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Song of the Day - Olee-Wah

Jerkagram - Olee-Wah from Let's Talk About Us (2014)

I'm having a hard time putting my finger on what exactly Jerkagram sound like without making it sound like something else, because,well, it's really not like something else. Very heavy on the groove, almost prog like, but also a bit math-y and psychedelic.



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Song of the Day - Empty Vessel

Bastions - Empty Vessel from Bedfellows: The Forgotten Daughter (2014)

New stuff from the melodic hardcore band from "the most northern point of" Wales, Bastions.


Love it or hate it, there's passion behind them pipes.

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Song of the Day - Cabin in the Attic

Heccra - Cabin in the Attic from Devil-Faces VCR Session (2014)

Blown-up scream-o era porn-o.



Prepare your ears.

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Song of the Day - What We Loved Was Not Enough

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - What We Loved Was Not Enough from Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (2014)

Efrim Menuck and the A Silver Mt. Zion crew is back and now going by Thee Silver Mt. Zion memorial Orchestra. Their new album, Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything is pretty tame for what Menuck has released before when it comes to his experimental post-rock music history. Still, "What We Loved Was Not Enough" is one of my favorite Thee Silver Mt. Zion songs and I am very glad to hear it on this album.

"What We Loved Was Not Enough" was originally released on a somewhat rare EP featuring the song in two parts in 2012. The EP was called The West Will Rise Again and limited to about 1000 copies.

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Song of the Day - Another Song Called Supersoaker

Grass is Green - Another Song Called Supersoaker from Vacation Vinny (2014)

New stuff just released by Boston's post punk noisemakers.

Boston has an incredible music scene right now.

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