Golden Plates Eugenics Self-Released Street: 05.11 Golden Plates = (Lenny Kravitz x Monster Magnet) / The Strokes One of the toughest assignments I’ve had since I started writing for SLUG is the task of trying to define Golden Plates. Part blues, part distortion, part machismo rock n’ roll, it seems to be a music project
G. Life = Tech N9ne x Nelly … read more
Fever Dreams = (Nails + His Hero is Gone) / Botch … read more
Had this album come out in 2004, my 15-year-old self would’ve freaked out. To a degree, it uses the tried-and-true formula of distorted guitars with angry-soft vocals that crescendo into a cloud of noise so saturated in raw emotion, I inadvertently absorbed the singer’s climactic experience as my own. … read more
The post-hardcore scene has been dwindling as of late, but these guys brought some serious crashing guitar riffs to the studio just in case you forgot. The title track gets the EP started and really displays the overall sound Former Tides are going for. … read more
Jabuticaba is a split-album—longer than, but related to, a split-EP—released both digitally and on cassette by local musicians Fisch Loops (Numbs, Furthermore, Julio Child, Daniel Tiger, Dani Lion) and Applegreen. … read more
Foster Body = Gang of Four + Jad Fair + Erase Errata … read more
Golden Plates = Fang Island + NoFx + Titus Andronicus
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Festive People = Young the Giant + Imagine Dragons … read more
Fisch Loops = Hype Williams + the Heliocentrics + Jodorowsky’s the Holy Mountain … read more
Feymarch = Throbbing Gristle + Xiu Xiu + Mooninite … read more
finale = Venetian Snares + Holly Herndon + Eluvium … read more
