UGLYFRANK- 2014 - Bobby Hill

UGLYFRANK is a rapper from Tacoma, Washington, USA. Bobby Hill is his solo debut EP. Ugly Frank is one third of the rap group ILLFIGHTYOU. UGLYFRANK is an interesting rapper, he's got the intensity and anger of a gangsta rapper but he focuses his energy on other things instead of purely rapping about violence. 90 has a creeping G-Funk heaviness to it while Frank Truise and Left Ova bring the melodic synths. The production provided by the  KReam Team allows UGLYFRANK to spit his freewheeling style to maximum effect. Hip hop doesn't have to be pretty to be killer. If you're into rap or hip hop at all, UGLYFRANK's Bobby Hill will serve well.

Ajax - 2014 - Bleach For Breakast

Ajax is a hardcore punk supergroup from New York City. USA. Bleach For Breakfast is their debut EP. Ajax plays a straight ahead brand of hardcore, super fast, no interest in guitar solos only in playing as fast they can while their lead singer barks ferociously.



 Members also play in Warthog, CREEM and Nuclear Spring. If you need some fast, short and ferocious hardcore punk in your life, Ajax's Bleach For Breakfast will serve well. Thanks to both I Could Die Tomorrow and Cut & Paste.

A Lonely Ghost Burning - Various Artists - 2014 - Alt/Punk Vol 2

A Lonely Ghost is a project intended to bring good music to more people. This is their third compilation. It walks the distance between hardcore punk, melodic org core punk rock, pop punk, quirky indie rock influenced punk and back. My favourites are Bad Ideas - So Wrong, Dogbreth - Too Much Too Fast, Trampoline Team - I'm So Popular, Growing Up A Ghost - Know Better, Boys - Sundae Skool and Shakey Ground - American Haiku but this album is overgrown with excellent new music. If you like punk rock in any capacity, A Lonely Ghost Burning's Alt/Punk will serve well.

jinzo - 2014 - ACID BANK

jinzo is an experimental band from Glasgow. ACID BANK is their second LP with another seven EP's on their bandcamp. jinzo plays an experimental brand of largely ambient chiptune. On songs like Big Glass Ft. Bekn Dignum and In My Dream I Ran jinzo conjures a danceable, melodic sound bed but otherwise this album is heavy on the instrumental ambient melodies drifting by in fits and starts. This is perfect music for either background ambient noise or paying attention to the songs and interludes as they are constructed piece by looped piece. If you are in need of something ambient or simply some synth layered quirkiness, then jinzo's ACID BANK will serve well. Thanks to We Read The Blogs We Think We Deserve.

Your Weekly Madness 205

Wednesday night/thursday morning means another episode of Your Weekly Madness. Episode 205 features music from Young Thug & Bloody jay , Creeper, Truman, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Waxahatchee, Iron Mind, You Blew It!, Slippertails, and self defense family and excerpts from Tina Fey's Bossypants, Emma Goldman's Anarchism & Other Essays as well as Alysia Harris and Aysha El Shamayleh performing hir

Ball De Bastons - Makil Dantza - 2014

Ball De Bastons - Makil Dantza is an anti-cop compilation put out by Filferro Records and Hysterical Records featuring 22 tracks from 22 different bands from Catalonia and Basque Country. Most of these bands are straight ahead hardcore punk with varying degrees of crustiness and heaviness but even an  industrial bands like Matxura pounds you senseless at high speed . If you're looking for a solid compilation of pissed the fuck off  political music, Ball De Bastons - Makil Dantza will serve well.

pocketmouse - 2014 - almost spring

pocketmouse is the acoustic side project of Julia of The Concrete Summer. almost spring is her debut LP. pocketmouse is a singer songwriter alone in her room recording onto a digital camera. Don't expect big flashy songs, these are tender and held close to the heart. The whole album reminds me a lot of Julie Doiron and the cover of Maps is a nice touch. Julie has a nice voice that can be quietly beautiful while her guitar playing either softly backs her up with pensive, melodic picking or more actively moves the songs along with energetic strumming. I would list faovurite tracks but I just realized that it's basically all of them. If you're looking to sit and listen with a singer songwriter practicing their craft, pocketmouse's almost spring will serve well.

The Black Keys - 2014 - Fever

The Black Keys are a rock and roll duo from Akron, Ohio, USA. Fever is the first song from Turn Blue, their eight LP. I hope it's not indicitave of what's to come on that album, this is generic, synth based pop music, as disposable as it gets.




So listen instead to some classic Black Keys and remember what was. 

Sosiego - 2014 - Ascensión

 Sosiego is a hardcore punk band from Antofagasta, Chile. Ascensión is their first proper EP. Sosiego play a crusty, chaotic brand of hardcore punk. They describe themselves as nihilistic neo-crust band citing Michel Foucault, Fall of Efrafa, Tragedy, Carl Sagan and Arse Moreir. If Loma Prieta stayed just as chaotic but  got all crusty and played d-beat instead of screamo it might come out something like this. Highlights include La Contraescuel,a Epifanía and Antonio Ramón Ramón If you like your d-beat crusty and chaotic, Sosiego's Ascensión will serve well. Thanks to Ruido.

Le1f - 2014 - Hey

Le1f is a rapper and producer from New York City, New York. Hey is his fifth EP. Le1f has a talent for picking out or making unique beats and then lays out his personality across them. Le1f is a challenge to norms and stereotypes just by existing let alone applying his idiosyncratic flow to unique beats. Le1f is one of the most vital and unique voices in hip-hop, I don't know any other rappers talking about the things he raps about. He knows exactly what he's going for and executes it damn near perfectly. If you have even a passing interest in hip hop or rap, or simply artists being their transgressive selves, Le1f's Hey is essential listening.

Snow Roller - 2014 - Another Step In Your Career Ladder

Snow Roller is a four piece emo band from Portland, Oregon, USA. Another Step In Your Career Ladder is their debut EP. Members also play in The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die. Snow Roller play a melodic, guitar focused brand of emo with a singer that might put some off. The highlight for sure is Mirror and the follow up Limits but the opening two tracks Slouch and Wasted Time are excellent fuzzy indie rock and more straight up ahead indie rock. Snow Roller are not averse to following a riff down it's melodic rabbit hole and I want to compare them to Television in that catchy but still mathy riff focused punk. If you're looking for some fuzzy indie rock influenced emo with riffs galore, Snow Roller's Another Step In Your Career Ladder will serve well. Thanks to i think i might hate everything.

Grammer - 2014 - Awesome Knives

Grammer is a five piece emo band from Springfield, Missouri, USA. Awesome Knives is their debut EP. Grammer play a melodic brand of midwestern emo drawing obvious comparisons to bands like American Football or Mineral but stopping there is over simplifying. Grammer also bring a touch of post-hardcore to weird up the songs and add a slight edge of chaos and danger. The guitars are clear and melodic, carrying the melody forward and twinkling while the singer has a reaching voice that glides forwards and can have a nice rasp to it. This is a rock solid foundation on which to construct their own, more unique sound. If you like your emo with a little rasp and some midwestern twinkle, Grammer's Awesome Knives will serve well.

Your Weekly Madness 204

 Check out episode 204 of Your Weekly Madness featuring music from Battle Ruins, Polar Bear Club, WVRM, You Blew It!, I Kill Giants, Absolut, from Digital Dynasty #28 Anubis 9:3, Lucas Skywalk, Illa Ghee, Up Front AKA Gihadi, as well as excerpts from Emma Goldman's Anarchism & Other Essays and Tina Fey's Bossypants and Sarah Jones performs her poem Your Revolution.

Arch Enemy - 2014 - War Eternal

Arch Enemy is a five piece melodic death metal band. War Eternal is the first song and title track from their 10th studio LP their first with new lead singer  Alissa White-Gluz. Arch Enemy was formed in Halmstad, Sweden by Johan Liiva , brothers Michael  & Christopher Amott and Daniel Erlandsson. Christopher Amott has come and gone, currently pursuing a solo career and Daneil Erlandsson only left once. Johan Liiva was replaced by Angela Gossow in 2000 who is now transitioning to business manager. Her replacement is former lead singer for The Agonist Alissa White-Gluz. I think I like her voice more than Angela's even.

Scare Tactic - 2014 - Demo

Scare Tactic is a four piece hardcore crust punk band from Bremen, Germany. Demo is their debut EP. Scare Tactic play a straight forward brand of crusty hardcore. The guitars are chunky, distorted and crunchy with crust while the singer has a nice deep voice capable of guttural rumblings. If you like your hardcore crusted over and focused on crushing your skull, Scare Tactic's Demo will serve well.

Via Fondo - 2014 - Fast

Via Fondo is a four piece screamo band from Uppsala, Sweden. Fast is their fourth EP. Via Fondo play a brand of screamo with chaotic songs, pummelling guitars, tortured screams, and some twinkly guitars in the moments of lesser chaos. If you like Suis La Lune or La Quiete you will almost certainly like this. If you like your screamo chaotic and punky, Via Fondo's Fast will serve well.

Freddie Gibs & Madlib - 2014 - Pinata

Freddie Gibbs is a rapper from Gary, Indiana. Pinata is his second LP with another solo LP scheduled for later this year. Freddie Gibbs is your classic gangsta rapper with a voice constantly being composed to Tupac. Freddie Gibbs' street tales and drug dealing are laid out matter of factly with none of the gloss or shine modern rappers use. Self described as having "an icemaker for a heart," Gibbs uses Madlibs inventive beats to take detours and back roads into memories he might not otherwise visit. Throw in guest verses from luminaries like Raekwon and Scarface and newcomers like Ab-Soul, Danny Brown, Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt and you've got a banger.



Madlib is a DJ and producer from Oxnard, California. Pinata is his 10th LP with an equal number of collaborations with other people as well as releases under the names of Jaylib, Madvillain, Quasimoto and Yesterdasy New Quintet. Madlib has worked with rappers like Talib Kweli, MF Doom and producers like J Dilla. He has developed a reputation as a crate digger with a taste for jazz, pyschedelic soul and blaxpolitation funk all of which he puts to great use on this album. Instead of a traditional boom bap Freddie Gibbs gets old school funk and soul to spit his street tales on. If you like hip hop or rap in any capacity, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's Pinata is essential listening.

Execució - 2014 - Demo

Execució is a four piece thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain. Demo is their debut EP. Execució play a straight forward brand of thrash metal, heavy riffs flying everywhere which way and the singer has a voice that could wake the dead. This is old school, riff focused thrash metal with a possessed drill sergeant on vocals. If you've been missing some aggressive thrash metal, Execució's Demo will serve well. Thanks to Ruido

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Your Weekly Madness 203

Check out the third episode of the official podcast of Project: Burnt,

There is a voice mail you can and leave messages on 206-339-3919, your messages will probably be played on a future show.

This week features the music of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, lovechild, Brain Corruption, No Crosses, Battle Ruins, beatriz carnicero, polar bear club, human ruins, as well as excerpts from Emma Goldman’s Anarchism & Other Essays, Tina Fey’s Bossypants and Gil Scott-Heron performing his poem The Revolution Will Not Be Televized.

Your Weekly Madness 201

My former radio show Who Programmed This?!? has been reborn exclusively as the official podcast of Project:Burnt.

There is a voice mail you can and leave messages on 206-339-3919, your messages will probably be played on a future show.

This week features music from  Posture & The Grizzly, Go Deep, Stras X Ser, Danger! Danger!, Trauma Harness, Dejection, Childish Gambino and excerpts from Anarchism & Other Essays by Emma Goldman and Bossypants by Tina Fey

Fade - 2014 - Familiar Ghost

Fade is a three piece emo band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Familiar Ghost is their debut EP. Fade play a melodic brand of emo that wraps itself in layers of fuzz.These four meloncholy songs explore loneliness and despair by constructing melodic emo songs with a warm, enveloping layer of distortion. This EP makes me think of hearing Nobody, Ever and Healing Powers for the first time, this is the sound of a new band finding their footing and launching their own ship. If you like your emo wrapped in warm fuzz then Fade's Familiar Ghost will serve well.

Back Legs - 2014 - Demo

Back Legs are a hardcore punk band from Austin, Texas, USA. Demo is their debut EP. Back Legs play a chaotic brand of powerviolence infused hardcore where the songs feel like they might fall apart at any moment. The singer has an anguished shout barely able to escape the pursuing demons and the band hammer out a shaggy, aggressive strain of hardcore punk. If you like your hardcore punk to have a frenzied powerviolence attack Back Leg's Demo will serve well.

The Estranged - 2014 - The Estranged

The Estranged is a three piece post-punk band from Portland, Oregon. The Estranged is their third LP. The Estranged play a dark, brooding brand of post-punk with just a hint of noise thrown in for flavour. They cite bands like Echo & the Bunnymen, The Only Ones, These Immortal Souls, The Troggs and The Creation. Most of these songs have a solid driving rhythm behind them perfect for either driving away the darkness of night or inviting in those dancing demons who make the night their home. This album finds The Estranged expanding their sonic palette through the use of a bow on guitar, feedback loops, piano, farfisa, backwards guitar, female back-up vocals. If you like your post-punk dark and brooding but still driving, The Estranged's The Estranged will serve well. Thanks to Elementary Revolt.

Constrict - 2014 - Carved In Stone

Constrict are a five piece straight edge hardcore punk band from Barcelona, Spain. Carved In Stone is second EP. Constrict play a thrashy, mosh pit ready brand of hardcore punk. The dual guitars bring the heavy crunch and focus on destroying everything around while the vocalist has a harsh shout that is put to great use. If you like your hardcore speedy and thrashy Constrict's Carved In Stone will serve well. Thanks to Ruido

Conan - 2014 - Blood Eagle

Conan is a doom metal three piece from Liverpool, UK. Blood Eagle is their new LP courtesy of Napalm Records recorded in the singer's own Skyhammer Studio. Conan plays a towering, menacing, incredibly heavy and skull crushing brand of doom metal. Blood Eagle closes and opens with 9 minute orgies of doom metal riffs.



There is very little interest here in anything other than mid tempo lumbering stomp designed to slam you further and further into the ground. Foehammer has a ferocious opening but settles into a more reasonable, lumbering riff focused monster. They opened for Sleep in Norway and have a split with Bongripper so you know roughly what to expect. If you like your doom to only focus on being heavy and riding those riffs then Conan's Blood Eagle will serve well. Thanks to Elementary Revolt.

Enta - Anodes - 2014 - Split

Enta is a screamo band from Champaign, Illinois, USA. The Split with Anodes is their third EP. Enta plays an atmospheric brand of midwestern screamo, injecting both noise and space as well as lengthening the songs with melodic post-rock. In contrast to Anodes, Enta has a very clear, melodic sound. The contrast between the two, melodic and reaching versus heavy and dark make for a compelling split.



Anodes is a four piece screamo band from St. Louis, Missouri. The Split with Enta is their second release. Anodes is a blistering post-hardcore punk band that powers through these songs and takes no prisoners with their crusty attack. The singer has a desperate, dirty voice that bellows constantly and instrumentally, especially compared to Enta, Anodes are chaotic, dark and claustrophobic.

Torn - 2014 - Demo

Torn is a metallic hardcore from the United States of America. Demo is their debut EP. Torn play a crushingly heavy brand of metallic hardcore that can easily pass for metalcore, members have also played in Advent, Venia, and Jawbone. There's not much to say about this except that this demo utterly rips and Torn is a band to watch. This is a band with a fully formed song and finely tuned engine that they already know how to handle perfectly. Highly recommended. If you like your hardcore crushingly heavy and just a little crusty, Torn's Demo will serve very well. Thanks to Toxicbreed's Funhouse.

Step Off - 2014 - Demo

Step Off is a four piece straight edge hardcore punk band from Roanoke, Virginia, America. Demo is their debut EP. Members also play in Calloused . Step Off play a fairly straight forward, old school brand of hardcore, garnering comparisons to the Boston hardcore sound. This EP wouldn't be the same if it wasn't for the dry, punchy sound Step Off conjure. If you enjoyed Volatile's Chin Check then you should enjoy this. If you like your hardcore with just a hint of noise, Step Off's Demo will serve well. Thanks to What Are Blood Wings?

Posture & The Grizzly - 2014 - Busch Hymns

Posture & The Grizzly is a three piece emo band from Willimantic, Connecticut. Busch Hymns is their debut LP courtesy of Broken World Media. Posture & The Grizzly are one of the new breed of bands who gleefully graft emo onto punk or even pop punk and enjoy the speedy results. I'm never sure how to describe this band other than to say give it a listen and you will probably be entranced. These three musicians know exactly what they're going for and they achieve come hell, high waters or broken strings. If you like punk or emo in any capacity, Posture & The Grizzly's Busch Hymns will serve well.

Worsen - 2014 - Blood

Worsen is a black metal band from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Blood is their debut EP. Worsen is a part of the AC//13 Collective and shares members with Young and in the Way, Ayr and Votnut. Worsen play a desolate, frozen brand of black metal as exemplified on Collect Their Skulls, Leave Their Bones, only occasionally allowing some melody to sneak in on Open Vein. Mortal Sin is a more typical straight forward black metal song, all shrieking and whirling spikes and closer and title track Blood wears you down underneath frigid, hypnotic riffs. If you like black metal, Worsen's Blood will serve well.

Your Weekly Madness S02E02

Your Weekly Madness is the new name of the former radio show Who Programmed This?!?. Now exclusively a podcast, Your Weekly Madness aims to present a mix of eclectic music, radical politics and comedy.You can download this week's episode here and subscribe to the RSS feed here. This week the show starts off with Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band performing Why Is It So Hard live from SXSW in 2011



Next up is a mashup, James Brown VS Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Sex Machine

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Dirty Vegas - Days Go By



Yello - Oh Yeah, which some of you might know from Ferris Bueller's Day Off



Basement Jaxx - where's your head at



Red Dons - Walk Alone


Gross - It's Better This Way


Red Hot Chili Peppers (Jon Daly) - Abracadabralifornia



From Curb Biters Demo, Dayglow and Bitch In Heat




 The Cassus &  ¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! Split



 From Black Veins debut EP, The Cycle Will Cease To End and Stone Sun

Home - 2014 - Bound To Gravity

Home is a punk rock band from Innsbruck, Austria. Bound To Gravity is their debut LP. Home plays a heavy brand of music in an intersection where sludge metal, stoner metal, noise rock and post-hardcore meet. Home comes barreling out of the gate at top speed with the off kilter raging slab of anger that is Hole, while the followup track Next To Last starts off a sludgy lumbering beast and only sinks deeper into that noisy sludge. Home keeps it heavy and brings in the post-hardcore with No Way Out My Friend and things continue in that eclectic vein throughout the whole album. Home brings together a variety of sounds, throws them in the blender and rides that askew mix into the ground. If you like your music heavy with no regards to genre conventions, only songwriting and heaviness then Home's Bound To Gravity will serve well.

White Lung - 2014- Drown With The Monster

White Lung is a four piece punk rock band from Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Drown With The Monster is their single, the first for London based Domino Recording Company. Drown With The Monster continues where Songs of The South left off, unrelentingly heavy and ferocious with a distinct aesthetic. Exclaim! suggests Domino will release their forthcoming third LP, but for now this song is being released as a 7" with Snake Jaw as the b-side

Vindensång - 2014 - Alpha

Vindensång is a three piece ambient band from Pennsylvania, USA. Alpha is their second LP. Vindensång play a darkly atmospheric brand of ambient music influenced by post-rock, a little doom and a little black metal.



This really is an album more suited for headphones in order for the atmosphere Vindensång summons to really engulf you. These songs take an enchanting atmospheric and ambient base and build towering, intense songs bringing together post rock and black metal.



 The singer has a voice that would serve well fronting the coldest of black metal and musically Vindensång stitch passages of experimental rock together, binding them with the darkened atmosphere. If you're ready to put your headphones one and travel through this world, Vindensång's Alpha will serve well.

Off! - 2014 - Hypnotized - Video

Off! is a  four piece hardcore punk band from Los Angelese, California, USA. Wasted Years is their new LP, Hypnotized is a new song from that LP. It's vaguely political with references to conspiracy theories and continues to wave the flag for modern hardcore punk. Off! consists of Keith Morris, Dimitri Coats, Steven McDonald, Mario Rubalcaba who have played in bands like Circle Jerk, Black Flag, Midget Handjob, Buglamp, Burning Brides, Redd Kross, Tourists, Tater Totz, Sparks, Beck, Earthless, RFTC, Hot Snakes, Clikitat Ikatowi.

Almenara - 2014 - Desestructurando lo Aprendido

Almenara is a five piece punk band from Valparaíso, Chile. Desestructurando lo Aprendido is their third EP. Almenara play a catchy, fast brand punk pop and do roughly the same thing on acoustic. The guitars are smooth and whip fast, the singer has a forceful short and there are no shortage of background Whoa oh oh's. Every song on this all too short EP introduces itself forcefully, makes itself known and then vacates the stage just as quickly. The last two songs are acoustic punk songs that seem constructed for everyone in the pit to sing along with at the top of their lungs. If you like fast punk or have a soft spot for some acoustic punk, Almanera's Desestructurando lo Aprendido will serve well.

Siega - 2014 - Demo Tape

Siega is a four piece hardcore punk band from Barcelona, Spain. Demo Tape is their second EP. Siega play a speedy brand of hardcore punk. The singer has a forceful if somewhat strained at times shout and the band behind him is playing somewhat noisy, groove filled hardcore. The only track on here I don't like is the shortest track which just thrashes around aimlessly, otherwise this EP is straight ahead heavy hardcore. If you like your hardcore heavy and unafraid of a fucking up a groove, Siega's Demo Tape will serve well. Thanks to Ruido.

Big Ups - 2014 - Eighteen Hours Of Static

Big Ups is a four piece punk rock band from New York City, New York, America. Eighteen Hours Of Static is their debut LP. Big Ups play a frenetic brand of emo incorporating elements of noise rock, hardcore and post-rock, they are a band wound very tightly, exploding as carefully as they can.



This is the sound of a band in a dank, dark basement somewhere hammering out their tunes. Big Ups goes from wirey emo to muscly punk pop to slacker style indie rock and back without missing a beat while the singer is able to conjure hooks seemingly out of nowhere, shouts like his life depends on it and brings some energy to the talk singing parts. Highlights include TMI, Disposer , Justice, Goes Black, and Fine Line.



 If you like your punk rock to gleefully skip between genres while staring at and directly confronting the darkness and evils in life or just like some songs to jump and down to, Big Up's Eighteen Hours Of Static will serve well.

El Hambre - 2014 - El Hambre

El Hambre is a powerviolence band from Valencia, Spain. El Hambre is their debut EP. EL Hambre plays kinetic brand of. powerviolence that specializes in spinning like a jagged jackhammer, spewing crusty hardcore fragments everywhere at lightning speed. At times they incorporate a groove or throw in some hardcore for flavouring but mostly El Hambre seem focused on obliterating any life that might be in their proximity. If you like your powerviolence short and jagged, El Hambre's El Hambre will serve well.