New song from stoner-lo-fi-pop-punk prince Nathan Williams.  Destroy Features Damian Abraham from Fucked Up (who put out one of the albums of the year, if you haven’t heard already)

Destroy.  Check it out above.  

And you can preorder the EP over here.  Get that rad ass shirt.

New Trash Talk song/video.

Starring that motherfucker with dreads that’s at every hardcore show I’ve been to almost ever.

Seriously, this dude is even in a bunch of videos on youtube of hardcore bands.  Specifically, he’s in the video of Trash Talk at Rasputin’s in Berkeley.  He’s in the video of the No Flag show in Macarthur Park. 

There are more, but I won’t bother listing ‘em.

Anyways, new Trash Talk.  They’ve got a new EP coming out in November.  Good shit.  Somebody I know once got fired from Hot Topic for saying “every faggot who thinks he knows hardcore listens to three bands.  Trash Talk, Ceremony, and Have Heart”.  That doesn’t have a whole lot to do with anything, but I just think it’s funny.

-Zach

Huzza Mothafucka!

In the day to day rambunctiousness that the hip-hop scene has delved into since the wake and full scale arrival of groups like Odd Future and Lil B, the god of all things base, there is a sudden spark of sheer originality and stunning focus throughout the entire scene. There’s the inventive stylization in both Shabazz Palaces and Main Attrakionz bringing rap to a more ethereal and slinky level than previously noted by way of out there beats and sampling. Happening in parallel is the new release from notorious hit-maker and adulterer The-Dream under his birth-name Terius Nash, full of tracks directly lashing out against his ex with an intensely interpersonal vitriol unexpected from the same guy who wrote “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” calling the entire affair 1977 (his birth year) and releasing it for free unannounced to little fanfare but much gossip. This whirlwind of creative energies is setting a new weirder, more abstract and altogether enthralling precedent as for what to expect out of the hip-hop scene, radio station replay be damned.  

Now, while the above artists are directly contributing to the revitalization and reinvention of the genres they profess, it all falls a bit on the softer side of the line, and if you’re looking for something better suited for drinking 40’s to than playing for the indie kids, Mr. Mothafuckin’ eXquire is just what you’ve been waiting for. Like a one-two punch of potent sonic audacity, “Huzzah” and the recently released “The Song That Never Ends (Huzzah Pt. 2)” features the genius rhyming couplet of “vodka” and “Czechoslovakia” in both tracks with videos striking a balance between lo-fi budgeting and a fresh eye, this is the sound of a guy who knows just what he’s doing but way too drunk to wipe away the all necessary grime from his sound. This gives massive reason to believe that the pending Lost In Translation mixtape, due in a mere few days time, will be yet another hard as fuck release worth the download. So go ahead and give him a call via his Tumblr or just check out the other quite solid releases featured on his Bandcamp page in the meantime, there’s quite a bit to the man already but it feels like we’ve yet to even scratch the surface on this rising soon-to-be master of the form.  

-Ryan Outcault

Woah, fuck this guy.

How many of you lucky bastards saw Kid Dynamite at Chain yesterday?