Bad Banana

Cradling my curious lows with catchy static-laden pop-punk ditties, Bad Banana resonates in a facet that only the P.S. Elliot demo could seem to touch. If you were a fan of either release, I highly suggest you listen to the Crutchfield sisters latest project, Bad Banana.
This being said, if the static lullabies of the P.S. Elliot demo left you hooked on tunes with highly capped vocals that sound as if they were recorded on a computer microphone, you may be somewhat displeased to find that their new 7", "Cry About it," is a little cleaner in recording. Fortunately in this latest release, the Crutchfield sisters (accompanied here by Kyle of Big Soda) still maintain the raw and low-hitting urgency of the original demo, and in particular, there should be more to coming from them in the same vein.
I have been very pleased by both releases and I hope that you will be as well.

Crushfield Demo
Cry about it
Buy right hurrr

Kickball

"What do you think about my naked body? Does it make you hot? Does it make you want to party?"

Kickball owns.
Dissonant, minimalistic, yet oddly full, complete and flowing. I'd love to see this band live, just to witness their timing. Oh! and also the great use of cowbell.

S/T (2002)
Huckleberry Eater (2002)
ABCDEFGHIJKickball (2006)
everythingisamiraclenothingisamiracleeverythingis (2006)

The Shaggs

"[are] better than the Beatles" - Frank Zappa

OK OK OK I haven't posted in a few months. And I forgot I even had this lined up.
The Shaggs are a band you may not like.
I do not even know if I like them. I'm sure sometimes I do, and well.. sometimes I at need something more conventional. Although that being said, I lent this album away so that I would stop listening to it so much.

"Philosophy of The World" was released in 1969 and remains one of the most obscure albums of all time.

xFilesx

All of the picture's I've found of this band suck


Albeit, these words are fantastic. I can't do this type of justice:

"Nihilism and Straight Edge go together like flies and shit - that's where xFilesx are coming from. For everyone out there who is tired of being bullshitted by marketable versions of hardcore music, and at the same time tired of the third Reich of political correctness, your time has come. They live and play with a sincerity that can't be bought and can't be faked, hailing from New Bedford, MA, a town notorious for turning out the best hardcore outside Boston and violent young psychos. This is hardcore music, plain and simple, for people who are tired of being a target market. Fast, aggressive and unapologetic - the music is primitive and brutally honest, and doesn't need buzzwords like "crucial" to hold it up like a crutch."


If you're not screaming along you can just shut the fuck up.

Beaten Straight (2001)
Excruciation (2004)

Titan

A little sludgy metal(core) for a change, and from Toronto to boot.

Hello again. I had jaw surgery on the 13th and have been spending time recovering from it since then. Now that I am off the painkillers that they gave me, I should be able to finally find some time to post more (but no promises).

I saw these chaps with Buried Inside two years ago, they ripped.

split w/ In First Person (2007)
split w/ June Paik (2007)
The Chrysanthemum Pledge (2007)
Colossus (2009)

Asaf Avidan

This post is for my friend Bob who is soon leaving for South America. Thank you for the tunes and the vegan spinach and artichoke dip.

Asaf Avidan is an Israeli folk artist, signer-songwriter and today I am in love with his beautiful voice. His last two albums have been released with his backup band The Mojos, but I have included his first solo ep as well. Apparently this guy gets a lot of flack in his home country for singing in English.
I wonder what his songs/voice would sound like in Yiddish...

Now That You're Leaving EP (2006)
The Reckoning (2008)
Poor Boy / Lucky Man (2009)

The Action Taken

Finally, everything is ready to go.

I (had) just got this record in the mail two days ago (when I wrote this post).
Before there was Have Heart and Wolf Whistle, there was The Action Taken, and here Patrick Flynn and Ryan Hudon actually share vocal responsibilities. I don't have much else to say really, it's younger and more youthful than HH and the lyrics are much less mature or developed... all being said it's a decent straightedge release and considering that the members were mostly only 16 when the band began it's a pretty decent album.

What I've Seen (2002)

Right Away, Great Captain

My tattoo artist introduced me to this fine young gentleman's music.

Now, I have another hardcore post pending but since my roommate is on WoW and hates when I upload (because the lag kills him) I'm posting this as these albums are already on mediafire.

Anyway, the man has a nice voice and it's pretty relaxing acoustic stuff reminds me a little of Elliot Smith but with more structured guitar work. His albums are supposed to tell the story of a 17th century sailor who catches his wife cheating on him with his own brother. I can't comment on that though, as I actually haven't listened to a full album through yet. I always seem to get distracted...

The Bitter End (2007)
The Eventually Home (2008)

*He has a new album coming out soon which will complete the story of the sailor so I'll likely append it to this post whenever that happens

Coke Bust

Straight out of Washington DC and fast as fuck.
With barely a song over one minute this is some of the best, fast, and pissed off straight edge hardcore today.

Definitely will appeal to fans of Ceremony, Bones Brigade, Bracewar, Scholastic Deth...

Keep it fucking break-neck positive.

Demo 7" (2007)
Fuck Bar Culture (2007)
Lines in the Sand (2009)

The Tallest Man On Earth

One man, one guitar.
This Swede has a magical stolen voice and I am glad I found this as it has been brightening the last few cloudy days.
Somewhere on the barren plain between Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot this man has pitched his tent.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

s/t EP (2006)
Shallow Grave (2008)
The Wild Hunt (2010)

Duke Nukem Forever

I want to get it on to this.

"I looked in the mirror and said... OH MY GOD WHAT A FUCKING MESS!"

Discog.

Roads To Shiloh

RTS were an early late 90's early 00's hardcore/screamo band from Ottawa Ontario with an incredibly raw sound. I know very little about them, and I can't even remember where I got this. All I do know is that each of their songs have ties to agriculture in some way or another and apparently that the band's members went on to play in Van Johnstone.
This is one of the most played albums in my music library and "Like Trees in November" is one of my all time favorite songs.

Discography

Score One For Safety

I for one, find it extremely tedious when others try to (over) classify bands and musical styles, music (I believe) is carnal, and plain and simple, should not need to sound esoteric when being described. Alas, at the risk of sounding pretentious I must attribute to the many interesting qualities of Score One For Safety's style that blend different musical elements together creating something much more than a standard skram album. This being said, as I attempt further classification I must add that each album in and of itself is inherently different from each other although each contains mostly rather long (>5 min) song structures.
Yoni is my favorite, it contains elements of post-rock which fuse nicely together creating a very atmospheric screamo sound, especially in the final track with the use of a viola.
Animals and Objects is a more punky and youthful substandard skram release, not much interesting going on here.
Lastly, the Castles EP signals the end of the band and is a further refined continuation of Yoni. The real gem on this EP is definitely the first song, probably my favorite of any of theirs, but with only two tracks (plus one unreleased bonus which is just instrumental) it is somewhat hard to judge where SOFS was heading.

After splitting, members of SOFS went on to join the bands Lahars and All Empires of the World.

For fans of I Would Set Myself On Fire For You.

Animals and Objects EP
Yoni LP
Castles EP (+bonus track)

Acres.

So I haven't posted in a while. Tonight I really got into this band's demo "Silos" and thought that it made a fitting update. Unfortunately this is Acres.' sole release as they broke up after only being together for 4 or 5 months.
Check it out if you like Kidcrash, May, Lautrec.

right hurrrr

P.S. Eliot

It's happened before. I put a record on from a band I've never heard before and instantly fall in love with them. But, it has never been quite like this.
When I first listened to this band's demo I felt instantly compelled, bobbed my head along the whole time and enjoyed it immensely. The next day I decided to listen to their LP. What struck me was this; the sound was very different, the vocal were less distorted the flow was less punk-like, and apparently (after reading into this) I found that they had replaced band members. Regardless, although I was thrown off originally, after the first few minutes of listening I very soon found something else I really liked about the sound, something different, and again I was compelled just as before.
Twice with one band.
Slap me silly.

The Bike Wreck Demo (2008)
Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds (2009)