The Locust Archives

Best Albums: Blackjazz refinement, punk fury, and pulling a Dave Grohl

Shining: One One One Retox: YPLL Roomrunner: Ideal Cities

12 years ago

Last week we premiered footage from Retox’s YPLL documentary, giving an in-depth look at the existence of the punk-hardcore outfit…

12 years ago

In a video documentation of its new album, hardcore-punk outfit Retox (along with friends Buzz Osborne, Nick Zinner, and Trevor…

12 years ago

With manic energy and featuring vocalist Justin Pearson of The Locust, Southern California punk band Retox is a perpetual-motion machine…

12 years ago

Take a grindcore/power-violence base and add sci-fi synths, brilliant costumes, and humorous/asinine song titles, and boom: The Locust. If you're…

12 years ago

Sci-fi grind-wave powerhouse The Locust has announced a 44-track disc of rarities from its releases on Gold Standard Laboratories. Titled…

13 years ago

In just one more trip around the sun, another swarm of immensely talented but under-recognized musicians has harnessed its collective…

13 years ago

Retox, a new group featuring members of The Locust and many other bands, just announced that its debut album, Ugly…

14 years ago

Artists like The Locust, Tobacco, and Castratii discuss how their semi-hidden identities shape their stage personas, and how such secrecy…

14 years ago

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14 years ago

After three albums that touch on personal topics, the scratchy, soulful material of folk singer and banjo player William Elliott…

14 years ago

Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman posts footage of his solo performance; Black Moth Super Rainbow won't be playing for…

16 years ago