Year: 2026

Second cassette from this stoned out three-piece from Schenectady, NY. Ten songs of riff-heavy, stoner-rock-infused fast punk. Don’t worry all you heady-heads out there, there are plenty of sludgy parts within this tape, too. Given the style, I was pleasantly surprised how short these songs are. Not a one of them gets even close to…

Lo-fi mid-tempo post-punk from Sudbury, ON. Four absolutely killer, catchy songs, that lean a bit artsy from time to time, but not enough to be fully off-putting. I’m not often one to harp on the fidelity of a demo, and I do like this despite its sound quality leaving a bit to be desired. Having…

Cassette release of the sold out LP on We Don’t Make It Records from 2019. Two-piece lo-fi garage / indie-pop band from Switzerland. Guitar and drums, both members sharing vocal duty. SUN COUSTO make a somewhat confusing statement on their bandcamp page: “hopefully we don’t know how to play.” Well… the playing on this cassette…

Otherworldly, dancy, minimalist, plink-plunky new-wave. Completely timeless. You could have told me this came out anywhere from 1985 to now and I would have been likely to believe it. ODOR EATER is a Portland, OR based two-piece act, one of whom I believe is Harley from FUGITIVE BUBBLE who have an LP out on the…

Five tracks of lo-fi, mid-tempo, stomping cowpunk. A two-piece out of New Orleans, comprised of drummer, Stella, and guitarist, Roach, both of who share vocal duties. While it may seem that there’s nothing particularly spectacular about T.A.C.K.; the songs are incredibly simplistic, the band is merely a guitarist and a drummer, the recording is incredibly…

Absolutely blistering hardcore-punk from Atlanta, GA featuring members of JUDY AND THE JERKS and NAG. Lo-fi, relentless, disturbing as hell hardcore-punk the way hardcore-punk ought to be. Even has a DYS ‘Wolfpack’ cover uncredited on the track listing. What else can really be said? No nonsense hardcore-punk. Get into it. Recorded by Hampton Martin of…

Hot off the presses, a debut cassette from Montreal, Quebec. WAYS OF HIDING offer up 5 songs of spacey, atmospheric, dreamy, meandering post-punk. These songs are not for the short attention spanned, however, with songs averaging around 4 minutes each. I was in the midst of writing about how the incredibly raw recording was a…

Third cassette release by Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s NECRON 9, all of which were released on the bands own label Unlawful Assembly. Absolutely relentless, no bullshit hardcore-punk. This tape was ‘recorded live in 3 hours on 4-trak machine’ as per the liner notes. Actually, aside from the band name, the release title, the band credits, and the…

THE DUMPSTERS – ‘Waste Management’ cassette Lo-fi, distorted, fucked-up garbage punk. With the bands schtick being that of trash, and having seen them play live while all wearing garbage bags, it is unsurprising that this cassette sounds like it was recorded IN a damn dumpster. Angry mid-tempo riffs plod along while the singer, who is…

T.T.T.T. from Buffalo, NY plays out around town fairly regularly. I have seen them with different iterations of band members, and as a solo acoustic act by the brainchild of the group, Jacob King. It’s not unlike how John Dwyer would use THEE OH SEES moniker for full band stuff as well as solo releases…