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Mike G.’s Best of 2012

- Source: The Bay Bridged

Well, 2012 was a pretty stellar year for music (both from the Bay Area and from the rest of the world), and I just want to call out a few of my local favorites from the year.

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Horns Up Ya Shitters! Last Month's Best Metal Reviewed

- Source: The Quietus

When, lately, the sum of your intellectual pursuits amounts to nothing more than a mild Mythbusters addiction, these intros get harder and harder to come up with – yet somehow I've still learned: 1) That it was fucking great to see Nasum return for one last time.

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CD Review: CONVERGE All We Love We Leave Behind

- Source: Metal Injection

In 1998, a little record entitled When Forever Comes Crashing shook the music world by fusing the atonal, offbeat time signatures of post-hardcore (particularly the instrumentally complex variety that had come to be dubbed "mathcore") with the sheet metal ferocity of noise rock in a seamless manner that hadn't been accomplished before.

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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week

- Source: Stereogum

This week saw a serious abundance of straight-up fun, ridiculous videos — four-minute blasts of joy that didn't take themselves the tiniest bit seriously.

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Playlist: OFF!

- Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

Formed in 2009, punk supergroup OFF! was founded by Black Flag and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris and Burning Brides' Dimitri Coats as an outlet for songs they'd written for an ill-fated Circle Jerks reunion album (which Coats had been hired to produce).

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Sleep: Dopesmoker

- Source: Pitchfork Media

Three stoned kids walk into an expensive studio with the idea of recording one song that lasts for an hour and opens with the line, "Drop out of life with bong in hand."

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