Akroid Video & Tour
Akroid have teamed up with visionary director/ animator/ illustrator Davide Di Saro to produce some serious scifi visuals. You can peep the teaser vid on Youtube. July is the month of thrashing! July dates for Akroid with Ken Mode and Vilipend have been confirmed. Watch the bands Myspace for those.
Gunnar Rapido/ Akroid
Gritty dangles is out and streaming @ www.myspace.com/akroid for your listening pleasure. Pretty stoked on how this release turned out and the release shows went off the hook. Much thanks to Gunnar Rapido for being so rad and awesome. Order it, rip it and then RIP it. Visit Gunnar Rapido to peep their hi-fidelity.
Whiskey Priest/ The Smile
Soon is the word of choice at the moment. The Smile / Whiskey Priest 3X3 split is nearly done. Whiskey Priest is all done in the studio and just waiting for The Smile. Smile vocals and final art work are all that stand in the way of an official release date. It is hoped that this release will coincide with shows in the area of May 20th to 24th. In the meantime the whole first album is up on The Smile Myspace so you can rip it up in your bedroom thrashing and singing along.You Can download the whole thing at DOWNLOAD PUNK for $5.99 or order a copy from Here if you prefer the real thing. There are 20 or so copies of the original 5X7 release still available so if you want the hot goods please specify in an email.
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  Akroid | Knives [fall o8] :: video robotto
  Native | What Are You Dylan In My House? :: video Hannah Rosner
  Strawman Fallacy | short clip that certainly captures the chaos of SMF.
  Katja | Design for Dereliction/Fallible in Speech :: video Fred Kember
  Straight Goods | The Goods :: video The Humble Empire
  The Smile | Mirrors [fall o7] :: video Bill Bruhmuller
 
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3 dangling, dual bass jams from Gunnar Rapido plus 3 dissonant, dirt-bogs a la Akroid. Hot jams and rad bros united. Gunnar covers "Broken" and Akroid covers "Gunnar 6000". The covers are more like interpretations, the way covers should be.
Visit Gunnar Rapido &Akroid on Myspace.
Not an official grgs release but hey like we can't throw Akroid a bone. Manually fabricated denim sleeves and xeroxed two sided insert. The jams themselves are thick, swirling grooves of doom-laden punk.
Visit Akroid at their website.
Unorthodox yet grossly engaging melodic groupings of sharp against round. Vocals that you can't help but invest in. Native is mesmerizing and “We Delete; Erase” a release worthy of auto-repeat in your playlist. Only a few copies remain. Visit the
Native Myspace for more info and to say hi.
Strawman Fallacy owns the scremo-violence crown. Always on the edge of complete implosion, SMF delivers panicked sheets of violence with infinite bucket-loads of heart and passion. Add in some audio art and experimentation and you got what this disc is all about.
Visit the Strawman Fallacy Myspace.
August is 1996 in the now. Mid 90's style hardcore that is a wall of sound with dynamics and subtleties that are tight and evolved to modern standards. Personal, philosophical, and introspective lyrics, pummeling, melodic guitars and awesome angular drums.
Visit August on Myspace.
Katja "Discography" 9 song CDr
For most of you there isn't much needed to say about Katja. Katja was one of those bands that took an evolving sound and defined it. Katja is the summary of post hardcore and this disc is all that remains of their short but amazing life.
Visit Katja on Myspace
If mathrock dove deeper into the punk side of post-punk and didn’t forget the importance of youthful enthusiasm and creativity, Soft Floors would certainly result. These are some remarkably smooth jams despite the tempos and signatures being so cut up and jagged. Soft Floors stands over in the corner in the mathrock arena, having created their own sound and doing it better than most.
Visit Soft Floors on Myspace.
  Destruction Is A Form Of Creation 8 song cdr
The over-saturation of break-downs have soured many over the last couple years. It’s too bad they didn’t catch the way Straight Goods did “tings” for the short but wonderful period they existed. Staight Goods was so punk but sooo heavy. Live shows were off the hook and luckily some of that mix of energized, punk enthusiasm and southern-esque, never-quite-metal, break-downs translated onto “Destruction Is A Form Of Creation”. Visit the Myspace
Ah, bitter/ sweet! This record is like a dream of when you are awake. Everything seems normal but just ain't right and everything changes in a split second. The Smile is both the angel and devil whispering loudly into your ears, making you happily crazy.
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Scifi, post-hardcore punk, wrestling in a bed of discord. Akroid's jagged, noisy approach is somehow wicked catchy. Almost anthem like however the 1.5/ 2 minute song lengths go by a bit too fast to qualify as an official anthem.
Visit the Akroid website