As I write this, the East Coast is gripped in a heat wave worse than I can ever remember. Even today, a huge downturn from previous days basking meekly in the 70s, my room is slow-roasting me; in a few days, it will break 100 degrees. My car is nearly

This week, we reexamine the legacy of acid house's influence on early breakbeat hardcore and the diversity of sound that it brought to a genre that drew from anything and everything. “Breakbeat hardcore drew its melting pot of sound from a vast array of influences – from new beat

We sit down with Brandon Means of The (John) Candy, an innovative plunderphonic hardcore project that applies the gleeful sampling of early 2000s mashup artists like Girl Talk to a mosh-ready hardcore sound. Who are you? Tell us some interesting facts about yourself. Brandon Means, main vocalist as well as

This week, we dive back into the record bin for a piece of historical hardcore and end up in 2019 Japan, looking at a slab of pure hardtek party music. We’ve had a lot of ambitious projects and heady essays about hardcore culture lately so I thought it was

Who are you? The main creator behind the works of MUNTJACK and a new project called Cockhead Martin. I mainly create music and listen to music. What are your influences?  Anything harsh and/or seen as annoying by most people. Anything noisy, fast, slow, melodically interesting, or strange. What kind

This week, we get angry at the late 1990s record industry. Like usual. I was downloading cover art for a makina record I had Soulseeked the other day when I noticed something kinda funny on the label: It was actually Volume 7 but I’m not subjecting you to that