Just to be safe I've waited until the final minute of 2011 to post my best of list for the year just in case somebody scored right befor...

Happy Boxing Day ! Just about once a year I find something that I can unequivocally recommend to just about anyone. Last year it was Chris ...

Merry Holidays dear weevils! I thought I'd share a little bit of the x-mas cheer with ye all. I received this delightful cassette as p...

Still catching up on back-submissions. I apologize if I'm writing too much, thus sending some tapes that deserve a much longer time in ...

Whenever I get music by David Russell , I'm like, "oh God, not another Kirtan chanting tape!" But then I realize, "oh not...

Not entirely pleased to post two not-exactly-glowing reviews in a row, but sometimes these things just have to be done. At first when I pla...

From Kettles To Cloaks gives us a good tape of weary tunes. The instrumentation is pretty basic (guitar, minimal keys/electronics, mildly d...

What a cool tape. The A side is a collection of recorded phone calls made by Ex-Crown (aka "Miles Pflazn") to various payphones ...

First off, I'd like to say that it's been WAY too long since the last cassette release on Yeay! (rhymes with "whey", which...

The thing that immediately stands out about this release by Chicago's Quicksails is that this is a synth album with some really excelle...

We meet again Robert Ridley-Shackleton . This guy is some sort of British maniac who makes some pretty wacky music. Here is the "blur...

Hey! I think I got tricked into reviewing a 12". I swear to you I'm holding a cassette of this split in my hand with the same artwo...

If I said this evokes the same kind of feeling that Hal Hartley's music does in his films, would you catch my drift? This tape is a li...

  Portland's Field Hymns label has been belting out all kinds of audible treasures this year, with a really varied batch of tapes from ...

Like the snarling wolfdog on the cover, Noise Nomads means business. The music of Western MA mainstay Jeff Hartford is kind of like a line...

A fine split tape. Can't go wrong here. Silent Isle (aka Anastasia Clarke of Hudson, NY) lays down successive layers of twinkling guit...

Scalped does away with the social niceties that have plagued extreme punk and metal for far too long: why dress a sick breakdown with anyth...

This is the second release from Joe Bastardo's solo project Bastian Void . Joe is a member of the great group Gay Shapes and a fine gr...

A co-release between two Australian noise labels, Rising Damp finds Australian noise duo Junk Sick making Australian noise with a (presuma...

  Perpetual Ritual is the moniker under which Mitchell Saulsberry, a Seattle-based musician, performs with a revolving cast of close friend...

I received these three tapes from the Danish label Skrot Up , that also appears to have "offices" in Los Angeles. I first heard of...

  Anthony Paterra is Majeure .He's better known for his role as drummer/human metronome for Pittsburgh's blessed synth/italo-prog...

  It is my own personal opinion that split releases, especially those of the modern punk and indie varieties, generally involve two painfull...