Gadget - Moon Palace Books - Minneapolis, Mn - 02/03/19

Gadget - Moon Palace Books - Minneapolis, Mn - 02/03/19

Gadget - Minneapolis Straight Edge

Gadget is a brand new Straight Edge hardcore band from Minneapolis, Mn. Back in mid December (of 2018) they released their demo online. It was the only demo that made my Best of 2018 (digital) List. Their music is riffy and hard but without incorporating any obvious elements of thrash and beatdown as many modern bands seem to be doing right now. And there is really something about the drumming that I connected with on a "I need to see this band ASAP" kinda thing. Their style is different, as is their production, but when I first listened to this demo it brought me back almost 20 years ago to my first hardcore shows. I needed that reminder, that bands will still be out there doing it, screaming out into the void of a world gone mad, long after I'm gone.

Their first show is tonight with Cross Me, Dare, Low End, Life's Question (who I am also pretty siked on right now).

 

The (Digitally) Best of 2018 (Part Two)

Here we go again, It would have been too hard (and I didn't wanna) limit this to ten so here are twenty (and ten more honorable mentions) of the best releases I heard in 2018 but didn't end up getting a physical copy of yet. I’m intentionally leaving a few records off but I'm also listing them here but I consider them to be separate. These records should be assumed, they are obvious. These bands records were anticipated before their release, but without question they were going to be incredible records.

The DUH these records were gonna be great list-

Harms Way – Posthuman (Metal Blade Records)

Ken Mode – Loved (Season Of Mist Records)

Mammoth Grinder – Cosmic Crypt (Relapse Records)

Nothing – Dance On The Blacktop (Relapse Records)

Tragedy – Fury (Tragedy Records) *Surprise of the year
Vile Gash – Nightmare In A Damaged Brain (Youth Attack Records)

Best of 2018 Digital List-

Kill Surf City – Ever Notice How Everything's Stupid (Blacktop Records)

Stigmatism – Stigmatism (Beach Impediment Records)

Lift ‎– Harsh Light of the Truth (Dropping Bombs Records)

Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Partisan Records)

Drip Fed – Drip Fed (Coin Toss Records)

Wound Man – Pre History (Iron Lung Records)

Rule Them All ‎– An Alignment Of Polarity (New Morality Zine)

The Threats – Saboteur (Self Released)

Drug Church – Cheer (Pure Noise Records)

Gadget ‎– Demo (Self Released) *Demo of the year

Lace – Human Condition (Funeral Party Records)

Hirs Collective - Friends Lovers Favorites (SRA Records / Get Better Records)

Fiddlehead – Springtime and Blind (Run For Cover Records)

Wanderer ‎– Abandoned (Tilde Records)

Sunstroke – Second Floor/Seven (Coin Toss Records)

Caged Existence – The Body Prison (Self Released)

World Tension ‎– World Tension (Running In Place Records)

Minimal – Minimal (Self Released)

Wrong – Feel Great (Relapse Records)

Candy – Good to Feel (Triple B Records)

Honorable Mentions- 

Burden ‎– 4​-​Song EP (NxA Records)

Comforter ‎– Where the Heart is (Self Released)

Death Bells – Echoes (Funeral Party Records)

Ecostrike ‎– Voice Of Strength (Triple B Records)

Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (Deathwish Inc Records)

Horsewhip ‎– Horsewhip (Financial Ruin Records)

Mil-Spec ‎– Changes (Lockin Out Records)

Riga Tiger – Haha Paradis (Digital only)

Vis Vires – The Wolves (C Records)

Wake of Humanity ‎– Fight/Resist (Bitter Melody Records / Ugly And Proud Records)