Hide your children, lock the doors – and wear a helmet – because no is safe from these sadistic scoundrels. Go to Post-Trash to read my full review of Terror Corpse’s Ash Eclipses Flesh for the outlet’s “Year in Review: The Best of 2025” roundup.
Don’t miss these two other roundups either:
• Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums
• Boise Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their 2025 Top 10 Lists
Psych-rock’s greatest challenge is to not wander off and lose the listener; BLKE don’t hold your hand, but you know from start to finish on their Living Without Expectations EP that you are in good hands. Read my full review as part of my 13 Floor’s 10 Best Psychedelic Albums of 2025 for Treble here.
Members of Midwife, Knifeplay, a Sunny Day in Glasgow, Luna Honey and Sun Organ comprise to create an ensemble that warms the hearts of those partial to shoegazey folk-rock and whose band name makes Scrabble players drool. Go to Post-Trash to read my full review of Nyxy Nyx’s first studio effort, Cult Classics Vol. 1, for the outlet’s “Year in Review: The Best of 2025” roundup.
Don’t miss these two other roundups either:
• Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums
• Boise Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their 2025 Top 10 Lists
At a memorial ceremony for Kurt Cobain held April 12, 1994, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic delivered a brief eulogy that continues to resonate with great potency today.
“No band is special, no player royalty. But if you’ve got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You’re the superstar,” he said. “Heck, use your guitar as a drum, just catch the groove and let it flow out of your heart.”
Not too many years after that, a kid named Evan Blaine in Daytona, Florida, was given his first CD, Nirvana’s In Utero, from his brother. Some of the songs were already familiar to him, as Blaine’s brother and father used a guitar tablature book to learn how to play tunes from Nirvana Unplugged in the family living room.
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Hop over to Veil of Sound to read my exhaustive primer on the works of ultra-prolific musician Jeremy Moore, currently the top story on the respect German music website. You may recall the artistic genius from his edition of The Bad Penny‘s On Tyranny series. Now you have the chance to acquaint yourself with the sheer size, scope and high quality of Moore’s many music endeavors.
For more installments in The Bad Penny’s Visionaries series, check out:
• The Visionaries: Sadness Finds His ‘Purpose’ in Music, Readies for Breakout Year in 2026
• The Visionaries: ‘Dungeon Synth’ Master Jute Gyte Exudes Empathy in Rare Interview
• The Visionaries: Journey to the Center of Aaron Turner
The newest print edition of The Big Takeover – for which its publisher, editor, and perhaps the best person on earth, Jack Rabid, has graciously allowed me to contribute for 23 years – is now available for purchase. If you believe in punk rock and for which it stands, buy it. Among my 10 contributions is an interview with Too Much Joy, who are having the times of their lives after reuniting 10 years ago. (Read their installment in my On Tyranny series here.) Buy the damn mag; it’s 170 pages long, a work of art in its own right and only costs seven bucks.
With their second record, Valerian Tea, Magic Fig incorporated mellotron, glockenspiel and percussion into a trippy affair, albeit one mitigated by thee band leaning and scratching deeper into the surfaces of soft rock and prog that they mostly traipsed over the last time around. Go to Post-Trash to read my full review of Valerian Tea for the outlet’s “Year in Review: The Best of 2025” roundup.
Don’t miss these two other roundups either:
• Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums
• Boise Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their 2025 Top 10 Lists
Thanks to Post-Trash for posting my top 20 favorite records of the year as part of its staff picks roundup.
Aviv Rubinstien, singer for Los Angeles indie punks Jacob the Horse, reveals which movie scene inspired him to want to become a filmmaker, explains how Russ Meyer influenced his band video for “666 Chicks” and defends William Friedkin’s divisive movie “Sorcerer.”
The interview took place on December 14, 2025, less than two weeks before Jacob’s Horse dropped “666 Chicks” – and ahead of the March 20 release of their new album, At Least It’s Almost Over.
Also, don’t miss our conversation with Rubinstien as part of The Bad Penny‘s On Tyranny series.
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