A genre-resistant Black band from Los Angeles spent two decades being too punk for funk, too funk for punk, and too good for either to ignore. A look back at the records, the live shows, and the institutional failure to give them their due.
The band that supposedly invented goth spent most of their career trying to escape the label. A closer listen to what they actually made suggests the category always fit badly - and that the music is stranger and better for it.
READ →Show No Mercy through Seasons in the Abyss is one of the great five-album runs in metal history. That it doesn't get mentioned alongside the foundational runs of Sabbath, Metallica, and Maiden says more about how we talk about speed than about the records themselves.
READ →Don Carlos had the voice, the material, and the timing. Released in 1981, Hog & Goat is one of the warmest and most fully realized roots reggae records ever cut. The audience just wasn't paying attention.
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