***Buffalo, NY’s BESTA QUADRADA is the latest rust belt hybrid of bitter, broke, and bratty hardcore punk. Following up their 2023 EP, The First Four Weeks, is this S/T debut LP of 10 absolute bangers. A whirlwind of noisy, short rippers that confidently draws its own line between catchy and tough."Speedy punk akin to early Black Flag mixed with some of the raw swagger of Jesus Lizard."—Razorcake
LP $20.85
09/26/2025
***After brooding in the shadows of the Rust Belt and extensively touring for the last 5 years, SCIENCE MAN has mutated from John Toohill’s brain child into a relentless, 10-armed, genre-bending monster. They set loose a blend of enigmatic hardcore punk that melts away the restraints, throwing you into their ever expanding distorted reality. Their latest, MONARCH JOY, is a chaotic, strange, and deceptively joyous blend of hardcore made for those who only wish to risk moving forward. Edition of 500 copies with a 18x22 fold-out poster and lyric insert.
LP $17.25
05/23/2025
***"Buffalo freak punk duo Ismatic Guru introduced themselves with four frantic EPs released over the past four years, oozing with a rattled resolve where art punk and psychedelic terror collide in a colorful bursts of boisterous energy. An Incredible Amount of Overwhelming Information pairs the first four EPs together with five more new songs, 26 tracks in all to scramble what’s left of our bugged out minds... A place somewhere between chaotic and anthemic—still fully tweaked out and raw, but wrapped in unlikely hooks that dazzle between contortions."—DG Post Trash
LP $17.75
01/10/2025
***Buffalo NY’s THE HAMILTONES are back with a new high concept surf record, In Space It serves as the soundtrack to an epic space opera, borrowing familiar themes and textures from mid-century sci-fi and superimposing them onto thoroughly modern surf rock. While most bands of the style only use guitar, bass, and drums, The Hamiltones dare to utilize layers of vocal ooos and aaas, lush strings, horns, space-age synthesizers, and even theremin on their new opus. The result is a record that has just as much in common with John Williams, Ennio Morricone, and John Carpenter as it does with Dick Dale or The Ventures. In Space is unflinchingly audacious, daring to boldly go where no surf band has gone before. The experience is fully immersive, as the 12” record comes with a companion 7” EP of music by the mysterious Moon People, and a 6-page insert spelling out the plot of the fictitious film to which In Space serves as the soundtrack.
LP+7 $21.95
03/22/2024
***Big Clown is a group of best friends from Memphis, TN and Jackson, MS who got together one night to try and make a record without writing or rehearsing anything beforehand. What came out of it was a car-hitting-a-brick-wall style explosion, true living room punk from southern freaks trying to create something memorable and honest in the smallest timespan they can. The rules were simple: every song has one good idea and only one good idea. Get in, get out. Don’t linger. Tune each string to the same note. When it’s done, it’s done. Fast forward four years, three main releases, one Japanese exclusive tape, and several Gonerfests later to Beatdown. Written after a road trip gone wrong soundtracked by 16 hours of buttrock hits, Beatdown is what happens when your guitars tuned to only one note need to play something new. Beatdown is what happens when you write songs to amuse yourself and hope other people come along for the ride. Beatdown is what happens when your city faces a near insurmountable water crisis and you know exactly who is to blame. Sometimes you just gotta laugh.
7" $9.75
06/30/2023
***With Mince’s Cane SCIENCE MAN continues to prove there is always another grittier, more chaotic layer of warp speed, genre-bending hardcore brooding just beneath the surface of his ever expanding world. Following up 2022’s LP "Nines Mecca" this album is 7 relentless tracks of blistering, dystopian hardcore.
7" $9.75
05/26/2023