The Locust

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Life as a touring punk musician: Watch Retox’s YPLL doc in full

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

Watch Buzz Osborne, Nick Zinner, and other punk vets ruminate in 10-min Retox doc

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

Punk-rock mania in Retox’s video for “Congratulations, You Are Good Enough”

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

Review: The Locust’s Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

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…

The Locust announces 44-track disc of GSL rarities

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

50 Unheralded Albums from 2011

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

Retox and The Book of Knots to release new records on Ipecac

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

Behind the Mask: Revealing the Motives of Incognito Artists

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

Invisible: Overlooked Albums and Unseen Artists — in stores now!

Pick up a copy from your local bookstore or order a copy here. And while you're at it, subscribe to…

William Elliott Whitmore: Poetic Discontent

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

Weekly Music News Roundup

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