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Finally, music from a polish band!  Being a Polish-American, I jumped at the opportunity to review this band as Polish music is hard to come by in the states — frankly, Poland’s music scene hasn’t been at the forefront of international attention since Chopin popularized the Polonaise.  Fast forward to ...

Listening to Strung Out’s latest album made me think. In order to make protest music these days should a band be trying to subvert all of the status quo through musical experimentation and living by strict DIY ethos, or try to bring their politics to the masses for all to experience, ...

If you like loud, thrashing guitars from the beginning to the end of an album, than you might just love Tankard’s, Disco Destroyer. The band features Andreas “Gerre” Geremia (vocals), Frank Thorwarth (bass), Andy Bulgaropulos (guitar), and Olaf Zissel (drums). The band has no shortage of releases for their admittedly ...

The Fall of Troy; interesting little band.  Their album, Manipulator, lunges all over the place like a frantic, rabies-infested canine.  There is some cutesy, pop rock in this smorgasbord of cacophony, but it mostly is an album meant to jolt you like a side impact from a freight-liner.  ...

It is self evident that a band which names itself after an incident which resulted in the deaths of three students is going to be a punk or hardcore band. The Orangeburg Massacre --- the band takes its name from an incident occurring in Orangeburg, SC in 1968 following the ...

Let me begin by admitting that I majored in philosophy while in college. With that said, let me explain one of many reasons to appreciate so-called "noise" music, whether you can stand listening to an entire album of it or not. Here we go… So one aspect of post-modernism, as it ...