The Cost

I won't gush too much, but this band was my favorite for a good part of my life. They had the nerve to evolve and change, which alot of east bay bands never did, and at each stage they blew my mind wide open. I am forever appreciative for that.

The Cost - S/T (New Disorder)

The Cost/DBS split 7"

The Cost - Chimera (Lookout)

The Cost - Practice Demos (Unreleased)
*these were recorded by the band in their practice space. duh.

Midnight Laserbeam

They scared the shit out of me the first time I saw them. I had no idea what was going on. You probably won't understand that by listening to the records, but they had two drummers and a guy screaming into the mic. When you are 14 and you go to Gilman to hear more bands that sound like Rancid, this situation will frighten you. I had never heard sounds like this. Being scared was awesome.

Midnight Laserbeam - After This We'll See Fireworks

Midnight Lazerbeam - A Death In The Discotheque

Mark McGuire

Immense guitar galaxies. Take a trip:

A Pocket Full Of Rain

An Old Hags Cackle Pt II

Dream Team

Guitar Meditations

Let Us Be The Way We Were

Light Movement

Off In The Distance

Open Chords

Stranger Than Paradise

The Garden Of Eternal Life

Tidings II

interested in more.

OVENS

60 ripping minutes of complete Suburban Paranoia and pure pop genius.  Kids that grew up soaking in the Slap-A-Ham/625 Thrash aesthetic, all the while secretly learning every Weezer, Dino Jr, Melvins and Beatles song they could. Outstanding.

Ovens - Ovens (tumult 2009)

Quest For Quintana Roo

Young punk rock whipper snappers from Oakland. Total Mohinder/Dead & Gone/The Cost worship.

Collected Works 1

Collected Works 2

Physics

floating in space. lazerbeams slice through your brain. it feels good.

Physics - 1 (Flapping Jet)

Physics - 2 (Gravity)

Physics - 2.7.98 (Golden Standard Labs)

The Party Of Helicopters

this is the best band in the universe.

The most melodic guitar wizardy ever painted on top of a furiously distorted bass/pounded the shit out of drums rhythm section. The vocals. The vocals. The. vocals. The Vocals weave in and out of each other, schizophrenically stating something over and over, questioning, reassuring, obsessing, saying it just to say it, singing it just to sing it. Collapsing words on top of other words, searching for the right melody until all your thoughts manage to line up for that one beautiful moment, only to have them scattered again into a hundred different gorgeous directions. Truly one of the greatest, most underrated punk rock bands of our time.

The Party Of Helicopters - Abracadaver (Donut Friends) (vinyl rip)

The Party Of Helicopters - The First Two Years Of Conquering The Tundra (Progeria)

The Party Of Helicopters - Mt. Forever (Donut Friends/Troubleman) (LINK FIXED)

The Party Of Helicopters - Space... And How Sweet It Was (Troubleman)

The Party Of Helicopters - Please Believe It (Velocette)

The Party Of Helicopters - The Terror Continues (demos 1995-2004)