Decrepit Macrocosm

HOLY MOLY! This new album from these masters of darkness is so awesome! CHECK IT!!!! Decrepit Macrocosm truly hails the beast with their new album Wicked Sindrum!

for immediate release

i am unilaterally declaring that "Witchcult Today" by Electric Wizard is the album of the year.

Editing: WOW!

Holy crap.

It seems that each semester, we always somehow forget exactly how quantitative it is to run a magazine.  By that, I mean that we have tens of pieces that we need to forge through, tweaking until we feel that they're just right.  And I don't know what I'd do without our editing staff; Michelle, Dan, and Amanda have to be three of the smartest and most perceptive editors I've ever met.  And the comments on the drafts are endless sources of nerdy humor.

Don't worry, though.  We're not poking fun at you, we just start to go a bit delirious with the amalgamation of commas and periods that editing seventy pieces inevitably becomes.

Anyway, the issue is really shaping up.  Molly, next semester's EIC and the brains behind the amazing covers that we've had, is going to be doing a production orientation next week so we can get the ball rolling.  It's weird how deadlines that seemed so far away planning have literally snuck up and arrived with a bang. 

Until next late night update.

M

"hard" rock

Students,

Professor Batmatiks has been overhearing much talk of "hard" rock these days. Many names have been mentioned (Glove/Special Sauce, Muse, HELLYEAH, etc.), but none of these stay true to the classics. These new, experimental acts are quite progressive. Hard? Certainly not. Progressive? Certainly. But can something be progressive and HARD? Yes! However, how many hard progressive bands are there these days? Besides Mr. West, not too many. Dwell on this, friends.

the Professor

Show Tonight!

We couldn't be more excited to present tonight's Halloween show at Oxfam Cafe:

Circle Takes The Square

Transistor Transistor

Junius

Trap Them

It's going down at 7:00, doors at 6:30.  Wear costumes!

On Shuffle: Exploding Hearts, "Sleeping Aids and Razorblades"

sup internet. Welcome to On Shuffle, where I hit shuffle and write about the first song that comes up. This time it's "Sleeping Aids and Razorblades" off of the Exploding Hearts' excellent and only LP Guitar Romantic (2003).

Like the rest of the album, "Aids" is a catchy simple punk song in the Buzzcocks vain. It stands out, however, because it has probably the best lyrics on the whole album. The song details the aftermath of a breakup, and is full of telling, hilarious details: "The house doesn't look the same/I put new posters all over the walls/And the dog don't remember your name" for example, or this particularly cutting line from the bridge, "The first night after you left babe it was so hard (so hard!)/Didn't help that you told all my friends I'm a retard!"

But "Sleeping Aids and Razorblades" is just one pretty great song on an album full of them. Guitar Romantic is probably the best punk album of the decade before (and the half-decade since) it came out. A few months later the band's tour bus flipped and everyone except the guitar player died. So this song is awesome and tragic. Listen to it before you go see Control.

Exploding Hearts - Sleeping Aids and Razorblades