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

scintillating with delayed guitar before the reverb-immersed vocal injects the human drama

the Egyptian hit producer whose track “Ayonha” was probably the most widely appre-ciated track off our first compilation

Hankwood & theHammerheads

California quartet Planes Of Satori was largely informed by the rhythmic repetitions and mechanical mantras of what was happening in Germany during the late 1960s

WHITE STAINS - Make Me Sick LP Kraut Chicago’s borderless Tortoise present their"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,