Insult are one of Boston’s original grindcore pariahs, on par with Seige for ferocity, Toxic Narcotic for attitude, and the reviled Anal Cunt for pure unadulterated lyrical scum. After a lengthy hiatus, the band reformed, only to be struck by the loss of a friend and band member – infamous Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt [...]
Strong Intention has got friends in low-down places. The veteran genrefuckers enlisted the considerable whiskey-soaked talents of EyeHateGod throat Mike IX Williams to add some extra oomph to the title track and “3rd Space Gorilla Generator” on the group’s most recent 7-inch, Razorblade Express. His corrosive yowls add a little New Orleans spice to Strong Intention’s [...]
The storied legacy of East Coast hardcore owes as much to its gritty, uncompromising sound as it does blood and broken bottles. And while NYC and Boston get the lions’ share of recognition, it’s well worth mentioning the trouble brewing further south as well. Maryland lies roughly halfway between Beantown and Gainesville, and much of [...]
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, or a band by its title. Colorful, genre-specific monikers like Pig Destroyer, Electric Wizard, and Satanic Warmaster make it easy enough for even an outside observer to get an idea of what kind of aural beatdown lies ahead, and we can comfortably add Miami’s gnarliest vice peddlers, Shitstorm, [...]
In the mid- to late-’00s, Miami rapper Soarse Spoken was a fixture in the small, but fervent underground hip-hop world. The Colombian-born artist specialized in thoughtful, sometimes bilingual wordplay that celebrated consciousness as much as it did beautiful women. But after a particularly creative spurt a few years back, Soarse seemingly dropped off the scene. [...]
For some artists, a singular, specific vision compels the creative spirit, and many labor an entire career towards delivering an ideal iteration, or satisfying some perfection of a concept. Then, there are people like Bruce Lamont. Lamont is a multi-instrumentalist, a jack of many trades, and a scholar of what could be considered to be [...]
When artists are described as prolific, it’s implied that they produce an extensive amount of work because they’re creatively capable; they have a kind of ability that couples a constant churning of ideas with the tools necessary to turn those ideas into realities. Dino Felipe — the oft-discussed Miami musician, visual artist, and weirdo wunderkind [...]
Autumnal music festival Death to the Sun, named as such to commemorate the end of the summer sun, has been an annual event for the past three years, varying in venue but never changing its formula: it has always been a showcase of over twenty Tri-County area bands (and some out-of-towners), entirely for free. As [...]
Nearly everything about the Dwarves, the infamous punk band that emerged in mid-’80s Chicago, seemed calculated to offend. The band’s early specialty was to catch audiences by surprise, and, basically, disgust and exhaust as many of them as possible. If an early Dwarves show lasted past 15 minutes, then you were lucky (or, unlucky, depending [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
