This week: a review of Sleaford Mods' terrific ’Eaton Alive,’ plus reissues from Mary Timony's first band Autoclave, Swedish band The Wannadies, and new singles from POZI and POW!
DC hardcore veterans Youth Brigade (not to be confused with the LA hardcore band of the same name from the same era) were only around very briefly in the early '80s, having released just one EP on Dischord and contributed to the influential Flex Your Head comp...
Beauty Pill was formed back in the early 2000s by Chad Clark, who formerly fronted the great DC/Dischord eccentrics Smart Went Crazy. Beauty Pill released two EPs, followed by their 2004 debut album, The Unsustainable Lifestyle (all on Dischord), but then never got around to following that up and ha…
The group's sound could be described as clean, heavy, and warm, with lyrics focused on politics. Soulside was one of the first DC bands to bridge the hardcore emo sound of "revolution summer" (see Rites of Spring) and move into a sound of post punk deconstruction...