Remote Outposts

       This tape was put out by Big Shank (Jeremy "Big Shank the Bandit" Johnson) and Little Shank {Josh Mayfield) in 2001 and act...

   There is a certain power in the simple punk riff when executed correctly, but it's up to the listener to decide what constitutes ...

   Sometimes, I put on tapes like this, thinking "I'm not sure if I'm really into this" and then find later that I just...

  Since the previous entry  was so sprawling and featured 100 songs, I decided to keep this one short and sweet. These two bands are two ...

   I don't really know the story behind this tape, but I have some strong assumptions about who is involved in playing the instrument...

     Ever since I was a kid, I've always loved the sound of AM radio, lo-fi recordings and the way that music sounds over the phone...

   In my mind, BLOOD TRUCK was around long enough to make this tape, dub 12 copies of it and go on a short tour with  BEASTHEAD . I had t...

    When my band went on tour in 2012, we didn't put much thought into the fact that people might actually find reasons to pay attent...

   Sometimes, thinking about the amount of weird shit that  Trd Wrd Records  has put out is just mind-boggling. When I was traveling to (...

   As I'm sure I've said before, IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT is one of my favorite bands. Years back, they were getting ready to go on a t...

   I ride a bike almost daily in the city of San Francisco and most of the time, it feels like I have to be on my guard as soon as I mount...

   Many of the sounds I put on here are harsh, abrasive, fucked up, angry and defiant...because I like that kind of music. I also like so...

   Matt Himes is the man behind SHEP AND ME, which incorporates the sounds of experimental folk, outsider noise, tape loops, and acoustic ba...

   This tape was compiled by Dan B (of  IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT  and  VILLAGE OF SPACES ) to showcase some of his and friends' bands who pla...

   I think this group consists of weirdos from  IxPxCxPx  and  COUNTY Z , but I'm not really sure. That part is fairly unimportant. The ...

    Much like 2/3's of this band's former project,  SWORD OF THE ANCIENT , I'm at a loss for words when it comes to describing...

   When SWORD OF THE ANCIENT was a band, I could not describe their sound to anyone and the present day still finds me at a loss for word...

       When this tape came out back in 2002, it was glued to the inside of any tape deck in my vicinity for a solid year (and is still on...

   I have previously sang my praises about this band, so I will spare you the excess typing this time. This tape adds a second guitarist ...

   UKE OF PHILLIPS and ETWAN SHERLEW are brothers Dan and Matt Beckman (among many friends) and both play acoustic/electric music that seems...