Your Teacher Listens to Hardcore? A Review of Empty Vessels’ Waves of Waves

What is hardcore music?  At age soon-to-be-29, I think I’m finding out.  I had pictured it involving a lot of visors, “junt-junts,” and guitar players squatting angrily while playing their riffs.  But as it turns out – I think – it’s much more punk than I’d imagined.  Judging from some random shows at the Heirloom,… Continue reading Your Teacher Listens to Hardcore? A Review of Empty Vessels’ Waves of Waves

Review: Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life

If you’re trying to get a girl to sleep with you for the first time, Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life is not the album to put on.  But if you’ve got an Al Qaeda operative tied up in your basement and you need to find out where the bomb is RIGHT NOW – or if the… Continue reading Review: Heavy Breath’s Muddy Life