FESTICIDE: Now Annual Anti-Fest Returns To Portland In August; Thirty Local Acts To Perform At Nine Massive Shows At Nine Venues

Following its sordid inaugural booking last year, Portland, Oregon-based anti-fest dubbed FESTICIDE makes its revolting return this year, bigger and badder than before. From August 21st – 23rd, the melee will see nine shows invading nine venues across the city, Read More …

EOLIAN EMPIRE’s Near-Year-End Playback; HEAVYVIBES Holiday Sale

It was the best of times, it was… sorry, what was that? Anyway, before you are deluged by a slew of half-assed year-end lists and enter into a thunderdome of thread battles with commenters much less sophisticated than you, the Read More …

Eolian Empire’s Summer Of Cuz Underway; Slew Of New Releases + Festicide Announced

Welcome to another digest of all the news fit to shit for Eolian Empire’s Summer of Cuz… cuz they said so: Some of the hot stuff coming up this time through the ringer includes a DRUNK DAD record release show, Read More …

Update From The Habitually Line-Crossing EOLIAN EMPIRE

Update From The Habitually Line-Crossing EOLIAN EMPIRE: All The News Fit To Spit From Portland’s Outsider Collective The punters can’t wait to get their dirty mitts on Ripper Killer, the first full-length LP from Portland scuzzcore outfit DRUNK DAD, due Read More …

Eolian Empire News: DRUNK DAD, HOT VICTORY, GRAVES AT SEA, PRIZEHOG, TOWERS, RABBITS And Additional Controlled Chaos

The latest heavy vibes from Eolian Empire, now nearly one year into the re-launch… Everything is fine, or so it seems. Fuck-you-all-wavers, DRUNK DAD, just finished up Ripper Killer, their first full-length record. Due out July 1st, the new LP Read More …

HONDURAN: Powerviolence Trio Displays Their Landscaping Skills In New Video Now Playing At Revolver

Portland’s facewasting powerviolence/sludge combo, HONDURAN, apparently knows how to do a bit more than just bust out bruising tunes and get hammered, the trio showcasing their master landscaping talents in the new video for their “Yawnmower” anthem. Pulled from the Read More …

Eolian Empire Update: All Portland’s Noise Fit To Post; DIESTO, DEAD, HONDURAN, BIG BLACK CLOUD, DRUNK DAD, REDNECK, RABBITS…

Eolian Empire Update: All Portland’s Noise Fit To Post: DIESTO, DEAD, HONDURAN, BIG BLACK CLOUD, DRUNK DAD, REDNECK, RABBITS… If the plethora of updates on the Eolian Empire’s prime and gnarly noisebandits and plastered platters below aren’t enough to occupy Read More …

HONDURAN’s Gnarly Noise Plunders Thee Interwebs Via Pitchfork

As the delinquents in Portland’s HONDURAN prep their new LP, Street Eagles, for release next week, today Pitchfork draws more attention to the whole debacle by premiering a gnarly new number from the opus. Bludgeoning their respective instruments like drugged-up Read More …

Eolian Empire’s Summer Of Sickness Continues: BIG BLACK CLOUD, DRUNK DAD, REDNECK, HONDURAN, DIESTO, DEAD, TOWERS

Black Friday, the second LP from Portland’s avant noise-punks BIG BLACK CLOUD, drops from the sky tomorrow. Get reigned on with an exclusive stream of it over at Spin.com “in all its tense, taut, seething, screaming fury.” BIG BLACK CLOUD Read More …