The most difficult question I'm asked is "who are you stoked on for this year's Total Fest?" Part of me takes offense t...

Fresh off their sophmore release, Fresh Hell , Houston's Omotai is poised to continue shredding ear holes and lacerating flesh for y...

Being as omnivorous as Total Fest aspires to be can be a tricky thing because you've got the heavy music dudes for whom the pop, melody ...

Lenguas Largas Tucson is one of those "It's the water" kinds of places for me, like Olympia and Tumwater, like Bellingham...

I've been a fan of Mikki "internet" Lunda's bands since the shreeks and hammering on sheet metal of Knot Knocked Up about...

Dear Rabbit  is the one man band of Rence Liam. The music is timeless, his voice bombastic. The lyrics can be sweet, sad and fun. It's ...

The most important thing you need to know about j sherri is; you will want to smoke a blunt and make-out with who ever is around after you ...

Any band that has an artist manifesto is something to pay attention to in my book. Maybe you're familiar with Han Bennink and maybe ...

Do you remember when Triclops! played Total Fest VII? They're one of my all time favorite acts. It was strange and somehow accomplis...

If the media is to be trusted, there are approximately seventeen adjectives commonly used to describe musics of the heavy variety. In the...

Wolf Eyes "Well... noise has had an adverse effect on both mine and my son’s life... in fact my house almost burnt down because of...

Photo by Bronson Karaff Perhaps my favorite attempt at summarizing Minneapolis's Ex Nuns is Courtney Bade's straight forward st...

Photo by Bronson Karaff I can honestly say that one of my most anticipated releases this year is Animal Lover 's Learning Curve Rec...

No wave, noise band The Sediment Club is as amorphous as where they call home. From the "general North East area," they are o...

Let's be honest, Ed Shrader's MusicBea t is awesome. Part performance art, part ground razing minimalism, part resurrection, part...

Thankfully Dreamsalon are nothing like Cheap Trick. What they are like is one great-ass band with three dudes who've been in some of our...

The Bugs, picture by Sachiko Arakawa The Bugs new record is called "The Right Time" and I helped to put it out along with X-M...

Seattle's Wimps attack the banality of existence with a serrated party knife, leaving all the various sinews and tendons sprawled ou...

Ok. Honestly, I don't want to play favorites, but I'm about to. Greco is one of the performances I'm most excited to see at Tot...

Adrian Discipulo Photography Fullerton's White Night   is one of those bands that baffles me a bit. That's not a knock in any ...