The collab I didn't know I needed just dropped. @chatpileband.bsky.social and Hayden Pedigo's "In The Earth Again" is doom-laced twang wrapped in atmosphere thick enough to wade through for days.

Pressed on oxblood vinyl and sealed inside a ziplocked aluminum package... a first for me.

Zelda Notes is a bit clunky, but it gets the job done for collecting all the Koroks I missed.

It’s a gloomy Monday, which makes it the perfect time to spin Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons by Blonde Redhead. My copy is the 180 gram 2011 reissue from Touch and Go, and it sounds incredible... taking me back to the early 2000s.

I wasn’t cool enough to know about Heroin in the early 90s. My introduction came later, and by the time I started collecting their stuff around 2003, it was all Vinyl Communications and Gravity represses.

Back when I first discovered Three One G, “Both Feet In The Grave” by The Crimson Curse got the reissue treatment on a single-sided 12", pressed on blood red vinyl sometime between 1999 and 2001.

Plays like pure San Diego hardcore punk with a bit of sleazy synthesizer.

Antipodes – a 7" compilation released in 2000 by Level Plane Records on transparent red vinyl, featuring screamo heavy hitters The Assistant, Neil Perry, Hassan I Sabbah, Jeromes Dream, and Usurp Synapse.

Who has pics of the silk-screened cover version?

What happens when a band like Orchid trades throat shredding screams for swaggering rock and roll with a political pulse?

You get Panthers. Born from the wreckage of Orchid, The Red Scare, and Pitchblende.
Think MC5 and The Nation of Ulysses. Less breakdowns. More boring?

Pg.99 are the masters of building up tension that explodes into a crescendo of chaos. I can still feel the goosebumps from seeing them perform live nearly 25 years ago.

Ah yes, Four Hundred Years' The New Imperialism — the 10" that reminds you that emo and politics could mesh together... before everything turned into playlists of sadness.

Never have I ever seen duct tape used so effectively on a record cover.

File this one under records that look like they sound chaotic, unhinged, and probably dangerous if left in the wrong hands. Waifle’s "And The Blood Will Come Down Like A Curtain" is a 10-inch slab of screamo carnage wrapped in a cover that looks like a cursed scroll from an ancient hardcore sect.

Stumbled across this split LP years ago and grabbed it because “Amalgamation” looked familiar—then it hit me. Their split 7" with Jeromes Dream. Figured this had to be worth a spin.

Released on Rice Control in 1997, this one’s black vinyl only—no fancy variants.

Feels like I’ve been waiting 25 years to own this on vinyl… probably because I have.

Blasting off into the cosmos on a wave of Y2K era emo-electronica spinning Marc Bianchi’s Her Space Holiday’s “Home Is Where You Hang Yourself” on silver (warmly tinted) vinyl.

The perfect soundtrack for this slow, quiet weekend.

Wild to be playing some of my favorite Sierra FMV "point-and-click" adventure games on a couch.

Last two vinyl purchases, both limited edition represses. Peace out 2024.

Raein – Il N'y A Pas De Orchestre
HABAK – Ningún Muro Consiguió Jamás Contener La Primavera

2024, the year post-hardcore and emo reissues took over my turntable.

This year, I fully fell back into the vinyl-collecting rabbit hole after slowing down for nearly 20 years. Blame it on the wave of post-hardcore and emo reissues, remasters, and box sets that felt impossible to resist. #vinyl