ARTIFACTS UPDATE: Unearthing Rare Releases From the Past

God And Texas – Criminal Element
(1993) (post-hardcore)
Chicago, IL 🇺🇸

Fake Hyppi – Discography
(late 90’s) (post-hardcore)
Toulouse, France 🇫🇷

The Howards – Switchblade Rock N Roll
(2000) (ramones-core)
Springfield, MA 🇺🇸

Jeremiah’s Grotto – Through It All
(2001) (emo)
California 🇺🇸

Unherd – Self Titled
(1991) (emocore)
Columbia, SC 🇺🇸

Paper Lantern – Intro
(1999) (post-hardcore)
Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸

Build Nest Sleep – Diskografi
(mid 2000’s) (emo-noise)
Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴

Biscayne – You’d Build A Robot
(2001) (pop-punk)
Illinois 🇺🇸

Downtime – Lose Yourself
(1995) (hardcore)
Sydney, AUS 🇦🇺

Gregor – Untitled
(1995) (post-hardcore)
Detroit, MI 🇺🇸

Tropiezo/KLH – Split
(2008) (hardcore)
Puerto Rico & Mexico 🇵🇷🇲🇽

LAPM – Buscando Problemas
(2001) (pop-punk)
Bogota, Colombia 🇨🇴

Die Atlantikschwimmer – Kassetto Fix
(1983) (post-punk)
Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪

The Fragments/Modern Machines – Split
(2002) (pop-punk)
Green Bay, WI 🇺🇸

Scarper – Not As Punk As You
(1998) (pop-punk)
Hull, UK 🇬🇧

Some Still Believe – Self Titled
(2001) (hardcore)
San Francisco, CA 🇺🇸

Fair Warning – All Of The Songs
(late 90’s) (pop-punk)
Roslyn, NY 🇺🇸

Down Division – Fall
(1995) (pop-punk)
Philadelphia, PA 🇺🇸

The Goodbye Kiss – Self Titled
(2005) (emo)
Tucson, AZ 🇺🇸

Complete Control – Reaction
(2004) (street-punk)
Austin, TX 🇺🇸

Odd Man Out – Self Titled
(1997) (pop-punk)
Alexandria, MN 🇺🇸

Toxic Avengers – Full Moon..
(1993) (melodic-hardcore)
New Zealand 🇳🇿

Stay Gold – Self Titled
(2001) (hardcore)
Seattle, WA 🇺🇸

Down Division – Grinning
(1997) (melodic-hardcore)
Philadelphia, PA 🇺🇸

Shortfuse – Jacked Up & Muddy
(2003) (pop-punk)
Boise, ID 🇺🇸

Life Is A Fight – Self Titled
(2006) (screamo)
Athens, GA 🇺🇸

Brain Damage – Do It Yourself
(1999) (pop-punk)
Campana, Argentina 🇦🇷

Fire Is Fatal – Self Titled
(1998) (screamo)
Virginia Beach, VA 🇺🇸

Panic Button – Nothing To Fear
(2002) (indie-rock)
Oakland, CA 🇺🇸

Bush Tetras – Boom In The Night
(early 80’s) (no-wave)
New York, NY 🇺🇸

The Unbelievers – One Soil
(1988) (garage-punk)
London, UK 🇬🇧

Chumpslap – Fleet Week
(1995) (gutter-punk)
Bay Area, CA 🇺🇸

Constatine Sankathi – Discography
(1997) (emocore)
Kalamazoo, MI 🇺🇸

Only Ten Between Us – Youth Posi Snack Attach
(1997) (hardcore)
Davenport, IA 🇺🇸

Recordiau Anhrefn – Dim Heddwch/Priodas Hapus
(1984) (post-punk)
Wales, UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

After Words – Self Titled
(1989) (emocore)
Atlanta, GA 🇺🇸

Top 10 Albums/EP’s That DON’T Suck [OCTOBER 2020]

Cabeza de Juárez – Furry Transpilled
(lo-fi) (indie-punk)
Mexico 🇲🇽

Petrov – Flower Bed
(indie-punk) (indie-rock)
Charlotte, NC 🇺🇸

LK Ultra! – You’re Not Gonna Like This
(pop-punk) (emo)
Lawrence, KS 🇺🇸

Jungle Boys – Barred
(post-punk) (punk)
Manchester, UK 🇬🇧

Культодиночества – Истлеть
(coldwave) (darkwave)
Russia 🇷🇺

Loft & Lillow – Love Songs For Lucy
(emo) (folk-punk)
Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸

ZiDima – Del Nostro..
(post-hardcore) (noise)
Catania, Italy 🇮🇹

Dumb Luck – Made To Rust
(pop-punk) (indie)
Corvallis, OR 🇺🇸

Ночная Игротека – Nochnaya..
(coldwave) (post-punk)
Russia 🇷🇺

Crescent Ridge – Self Titled
(punk) (grunge)
Stoughton, MA 🇺🇸

I was in the 9th grade when the internet became a household luxury. Not in my house apparently. They had a couple computers in the library at school that were Online though. Usually they were occupied by someone bigger than you wearing a Fubu shirt. They were those nice computers with the CD-ROM thingy. You could entertain yourself for 15 minutes just making the little CD tray go in and out.

There used to be Internet lessons in the library, but only like 10 students at a time because our school was budget and there were only 5 computers (2 people per). The man teaching the lessons doubled as the librarian and he was old enough to have a patchy grey beard. In hindsight this leads me to wonder, how on earth did Mr Whathisface’s old ass know so much about the many wonders of Netscape Navigator? His first lesson was How to Use The Yahoo Search Engine.

There wasn’t much on the internet those days, but most of the websites were rad ass colours like purple with yellow text. Extra chunky pixels too – just how I like ‘em. Seriously. it’s my dream to someday make The Doesn’t Suck feel like a trip back in time to the internet of the late 90’s.

The first thing I searched was “The Screeching Weasel Story“, which I’m sure you can still find online or in the liner notes of Kill The Musicians. It was actually the first time the concept of writing seemed cool to me, and the first time the internet had something to offer. I still had mixed feelings though, because Enema Fanzine had an editorial about how unpunk it was to use a computer.

Today every punk and their mom is online, and 20-something years after logging on to Netscape that day, I think it’s fair to say, the internet is well on it’s way to destroying us completely. We’ve created this disgusting monster and only The Doesn’t Suck can save us! Well no.. that’s not true. We’re all fucked. Nothing can save us, but if you want to listen to some cool tunes.. umm you can listen to these ones or whatever.

Yeah bye.