and Nino Soberin

while their counterparts (though wary and contemplative) respond with hope and resignation so that the album settles into a perpetual state of interlocution and equivocation – the natural state of the romantic

and I hope this poster captures the excitement and abundance

Chicago’s borderless Tortoise present their 1st album in seven years with The Catastrophist adding a whole new bunch of stamps to their travelled sonic passports

finding a strange middle ground between the intuitive logics of their instruments

WHITE STAINS - Make Me Sick LP Kraut and Nino Soberin"If you look at the band photo on Make Me Sicks insert, youll see people from pretty much all the best and most popular hardcore punk bands in Pittsburgh for the past few years. These people know how to make great hardcore punk, and Make Me Sick is White Stains doing just that. While White Stains isnt as as blistering as Loose Nukes or as brutally intense as Blood Pressure, thats only because theyve taken a different tack here, channeling the snotty,