The Breakdown: Dropping Acid

This week on The Breakdown, we get nostalgic about the mixtape: part rave-era cultural artifact, part long-last artform, part format curiosity. Also: Georgia goes on a long rant about her favorite still-operational rave era label. Remember the mixtape? I don’t think it’d be accurate to say that younger

The Breakdown: Dropping Acid
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Album Review: Blind Equation's "Death Awaits" is tortured inside and catchy to match

Album Review: Blind Equation's "Death Awaits" is tortured inside and catchy to match

Sonic gasps for air as he sinks deeper underwater, his timer running out. Mario miscalculates a wall jump and plummets into a sea of lava. Mega Man shatters into bits of stardust on deceiving spikes. In your ears, you’re whisked away into pixelated adventure, uplifting, almost cheerful until you

Interview: Luc (Abuse Repression)

Interview: Luc (Abuse Repression)

We sat down with lead singer Luc of Michigan screamo outfit Abuse Repression to talk about being a musician and a lifelong music fan. Tell me two random things about yourself you'd like to share?  Luc once did a proxy interview of Jack White of The White Stripes

Turning Mario Kart OST into a Playable Synth

Turning Mario Kart OST into a Playable Synth

Dan Macy shows you how to make synth wavetables using whatever audio file you want and make music with it.

The Breakdown: 'Nobody will give us a gig 'cause everyone hates us'

Three women (one in front laying, two behind crouching) and a man (crouched in the back) dressed in punk fashion.

This week on The Breakdown we take a deeper look at Lolita Storm, one of the stranger and more fondly remembered acts of the first era of digital hardcore, and attempt to disentangle their strange existence as as a group thrust into the vanguard of feminist punk despite having no

Gonemage’s "Spell Piercings" Shatters the Nu-Metal Standard (Album Review)

Gonemage’s "Spell Piercings" Shatters the Nu-Metal Standard (Album Review)

Garry Brents, the sole artist behind the project Gonemage, has proven to be an incredibly unique figure in the underground metal scene. With a massive catalog of work, spanning back nearly twenty years, more modern audiences will likely be most familiar with Brents’ work under the alias Memorrhage - a

Interview: Havyn Alyce (Bottom Surgery, Deafening)

Photo of a woman on a pale green background with dark curled hair, makeup, and a nose ring. Her neck fades in a bony column.

Tell me two random things about yourself you'd like to share?  Alyce is a tattoo artist from Las Vegas and was huge into trading card games when younger; she references video games as a hobby, with her favorite games being Dark Souls and Overwatch . What's your

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