Criminal

This week’s Notable Releases include R.A.P. Ferreira’s second album of 2021, grindcore supergroup Lock Up (members of At The Gates, Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, etc), Toronto ska-punks The Filthy Radicals, and more…

The Hear This podcast festival happens September 8 – 10 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC. Twenty-five popular podcasts will be taped live, including Comedy Bang! Bang!, How Did This Get Made, NPR’s Planet Money, Larry Willmore: Black on the Air, Lovett or Leave It, The Weeds, Levar Burton Reads, Criminal and more.

Berserktown is an annual festival that goes down in LA that’s more interested in booking challenging music than big names (like for example, Destruction Unit and Thee Oh Sees were headliners last year). It returns for its third year from August 12-14 at the Teragram Ballroom and includes Psychic TV performing their 1982 album Force The Hand Of Change in full with guests, Ana Curra performing a set of music from her short-lived goth band Paralisis Permanente (who existed from 1981-1983), veteran UK DJ Powell, repeat offenders Destruction Unit (billed as “Destruction Unit + Friends”), the first-ever US show from long-running Swedish noise rockers Brainbombs, Danish punks Gorilla Angreb (who initially broke up in 2007), Hank Wood + the Hammerheads…

Lo-fi folk lifer Elephant Micah (aka Joseph O’Connell) released his newest album Where In Our Woods earlier this year on Western Vinyl, and today we’re premiering the video for an alternate version of its song “Demise of the Bible Bi…