Throughout the third edition of their zine, PUP seesaw between flaunting their career accolades and engaging in self-deprecation. The Toronto-based punk outfit is successful by virtue…
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Sound Experience: Car Bomb on the Cohesive Fury of ‘Mordial’
On their latest album Mordial, the long-running Brooklyn-area extreme mathcore band Car Bomb amp up their music’s already punishing sound. While the band kicks off Mordial…
Album Review: (Sandy) Alex G – House of Sugar
The moment Alex G affixed the parenthetical (Sandy) to his name in 2017 is quickly becoming comparable to the Mountain Goats’ 2002 signing to 4AD and…
Album Review: Monolord – No Comfort
Doom has never sounded as groovy as it does on Monolord’s No Comfort The apocalypse, doom, death, the end, and all the anxieties that come with…
Book Review: Finding Refuge, Community, and Healing in Punk
Everything is Going Wrong is a comprehensive, brutally honest exploration of mental illness and punk Everything is Going Wrong: Comics on Punk and Mental Illness, Edited by…
Book Review: More Fun in the Mid-Eighties L.A. Punk Scene
The follow-up to Under the Big Black Sun avoids the sophomore slump by digging deeper into the history of L.A. punk More Fun in the New…
Book Review: Roll a Charisma Check to See if You Get the Joke
Daniel Kozuh’s debut novel Lingeria finds the comedy in fantasy Lingeria: Book One of One, Daniel Kozuh 2018, independently published I’ll be honest: I was hesitant…
Album Review: Jay Som – Anak Ko
Over the past few years, dream-pop has broken out of its place in the underground’s collective consciousness to spread across the popscape like a mirage. Its…
“Presenting” Zine Explores Clothes, Punk, and Identity
Fashion in alternative subcultures is often shrugged off as superficial and vain. To some, clothing is merely fabric that barely pertains to anything aside from outward…