In my second album review for leading U.K. music outlet The Line of Best Fit, I examine Grass Can Move Stones Part One: Year of the Goat, the recently released record by Canada’s Fucked Up that capped off the hardcore punks’ near-decade-long Zodiac Series. Read my full review here.
In my first album review for leading U.K. music outlet The Line of Best Fit, I reevaluate Year of the Dog, the 2006 record by Canada’s Fucked Up, which kicked off the hardcore punks’ near-decade-long Zodiac Series. Read my full review here.
12.12.25
Abscess – Dawn of Inhumanity 15th anniversary red vinyl edition (Peaceville)
Arlie – Someone You Can Believe In (SoundOn)
As We Speak – Worriers & Warriors single (self-release)
Azketem – Amid (Darkness Shall Rise)
Begging Dog – Demo 1 vinyl reissue (Dais)
Andy Bell (of Erasure) – Crown Jewels four-CD box set limited to 4,000 copies (Crown)
Bygone – s/t (Svart)
Caitlin & Brent – s/t (Rodeo Corp. Ltd.)
Ken Carson – Acronym single (feat. Destroy Lonely)
Oliver Coates – Pillion OST digital edition (A24)
Dark Sky Burial (Napalm Death’s Shane Embury with Current 93’s Carl Stokes) – The Sacred Neurotic (Consouling Sounds)
Die Krupps – Will nicht – MUSS! / On Collision Course EP (vinyl edition) (features remixes by members of Ministry) (SPKR)
Dratna – Samhain Dawn at the Gates of Mag Mell
• free on Bandcamp
Dynatron – Aeternus (2025 Remaster)
• free on Bandcamp
Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live at Konk Studios (Domino)
Juliana Hatfield – Lightning Might Strike (American Laundromat)
Alex Henry Foster – City on Fire single (vinyl edition) (Hopeful Tragedy)
Fucked Up – Grass Can Move Stones: Year of the Goat (physical release) (Tankcrimes)
• Fucked Up’s ‘Another Day’: Two Cent Review
• ‘Chemistry of Common Life: Revisionist History’: Two Cent Review
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It’s a bright Saturday in L.A., and while throngs left town to get their holiday on elsewhere, the hipper masses stuck around to suck in the Save Our State Parks festival. A three-stage charity throwdown designed to offset the ever-looming California budget cuts, it’s taking place at the Los Angeles State Historic Park and featuring just about every “now” band you can name.
We’re talking Wavves, No Age and other frequenters of the Smell. We’re talking Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Torche and other smart metal bands that don’t have long hair. We’re talking Black Lips, the Thermals, Lightning Bolt and acts every other indie-rock blog out there is also yapping about. And to top it all off, Tim and Eric – they of Adult Swim fame – are conspiring to do something weird for 40 minutes.
We’re about to head off to the fest, and we’re going to try to pull off this while live-blogging thing, for the first time, at a show. We don’t know how the cell phone reception will be up there, we probably won’t be able to upload imagery till later on – hell, we’re not even sure if this is going to work. But if you wish you were going where we’re going, maybe you’ll want to pop over to the IndiePit Blog throughout the day, ’cause if we can actually pull off this experiment, it could be cool.
All right, enough dilly-dallying, Sally Salami. Time to get to the show, or we’ll be late.
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With the aid of Mike Haliechuk’s ever-improving production, hardcore-punk group Fucked Up’s punchy sound practically jumps out of the speakers on their ferociously live-sounding seventh record. Read my full album review courtesy of FLOOD.
The Canadian punks’ Polaris-winning sophomore LP proved that hardcore could stray outside of its traditionally narrow confines without sacrificing the band’s reputation within the genre. Read my FLOOD review here.
The Bad Penny (beta) 