Label: Sonic Swirl Year: 1996 Here's one them Chicago noise rock bands from the middle part of the 1990's that may have flown unde...

  Label: Capsule Year: 2009 Witness the ugly majesty of Harvey Milk churning at full tilt in front of a rapt audience on the occasion of the...

  Label: Amphetamine Reptile Year: 1996 I posted the other AmRep Silver Salute 7" a couple months ago, so for all the completists out t...

  Label: Thick Year: 1995 The pride of UNCG, Geezer Lake were an art-damage noise rock crew that pulled from Butthole Surfers, John Zorn, Sc...

  Label: Amplified Noise Year: 2010 Was this the debut from Multicult? Maybe. It's their first 7", but not certain they hadn't ...

  Label: Medical Records Year: 1994 The original mission of this blog, if I may be so bold, was to highlight long forgotten gems of loud and...

  Hey, remember the scene in The Karate Kid when Daniel Larusso bumbles his way into the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament? He's lost, h...

Our mutual friend Ipecac (not his Christian name) has not previously provided an end of year list (that I can think of), but this year he de...

Hoping against hope to create some sort of cultural footprint legacy (sorry kids, there's no will) as a way to justify my own fragile eg...