Remote Outposts

    Tapes like these are the reason I started the blog. Trying to track down these nearly ephemeral documents of a scream in dark warehou...

Today's post is brought to you by frequent contributor and friend of the blog, Alex Turner.    SNUGGLE is one of those bands, the...

   One night, I walked over to a show in north Chattanooga at a house with a falling in kitchen (one night, that kitchen's floor fell...

   I meant to upload some old MORONS tapes ages ago, but I held off because  Once Tender Records  was planning on putting out a complete ...

   "Everything Went Pink" is a tape that was released by  Dan B  back in 2000 that specifically covered the DIY punk scene in A...

  I've been meaning to upload this one for a few years and I'm not sure what has stopped me. I think it was lack of information. ...

   Today's post is brought to you by  Blair Menace  because of a few simple facts: He was there, he had the tape and he is a werewolf...

   I'm convinced that there's something fucked up in the water supply of St Louis. I rode my bike around the banks of the river...

      No long-winded stories today. I wasn't living in the Bay Area when most of these bands were active and hardly saw any of th...

   I never imagined that when I went to Dresden, Germany, I would buy a tape manufactured in  Columbus, Ohio  and released in  Paris, Fran...

   This is another band that I feel like I could write a book about: the internal dramas, the external dramas, the lasting friendships it ...

   In 2006, I found myself in a junk shop called  Happy Birthday Mike Leslie  in Worcester, MA, which was run by my friend,  Jacob . As I ...

   I don't have very much information on this short-lived band, even though these people are all good friends. Shortly after I moved ...

   In my last year of living in Bloomington, IN, I made a whole lot of mix tapes for friends, both locally and far away. I would sit in fr...

   My thoughts on the music of TBIAPB have already been documented before, but if you missed it, I'm not a big fan. That said, I am a ...

   SHOTWELL has put out so much stuff that it's ridiculous. They released this tape back in 2001, which was supposed to come out as a ...

   Back in 2000 in Chattanooga, my roommate, Ryan asked if I wanted to play drums for a recording project that he was working on with my f...

   As you can see by the cover above, this tape has a title, but it is so confusing to me that I didn't type it out. Well, you can read ...

   As of this year, THE BANANAS have been a band for twenty goddamn years! That's longer than DEAD MOON and SHOTWELL. Their band is ol...

    The Modern Machines were a revelation to many and a thorn in the side to many more. I count myself in the population of the latter, bu...