TERMINAL BOREDOM

Hey now. Here’s the latest batch of tape/demo/CDR/zine reviews to keep you occupied whilst we configure our very timely 2009 Wrap Up. Very soon. Short and sour. Our coverage won’t be as expansive as it has been in years past. Just staff members and a few special guests. We’ll have a new issue following very soon on the tails of that, with some crucial interviews, columns and articles and a wheelbarrow piled with reviews as well. Our plea for contributors has been well received so far, so look out for some new blood mixed in with the old guard. And we’re still always looking for intrepid interviewers and collectorscum-types looking to spew knowledge/opinion, on a permanent or one-shot basis. Drop the editor a line if you fit the bill. Bands/labels/readers, thanks for the promos and thanks for being patient. See you again real soon.

Jeezus. One day it’s October and you’re getting ready for Halloween, next thing you know it’s Christmas and you still haven’t updated the damn website. Time flys and such shit. Here are some new reviews I’ve finally cobbled together, some older than others, some pretty damn fresh. We have some more to come very soon as well, but on deck is the next Tape Delay/Demo Zone column, hopefully before the end of 2009. Some more standard reviewage after that, some Favorites of 2009 recap shenanigans, and the tentative plan is to have a big new full issue in January at some point. Trying hard. Mandatory apologies to all bands and labels for the delay, if you don’t see your stuff here, don’t worry, it’s coming. And as always, we’re looking for help if you have ideas for columns/features/interviews. We could actually use some more review staff these days as well, as we seem to have lost a couple more soldiers. Contact the editor. Also, a belated Happy Holiday season to everyone out there who has touched TB in some way: contributors, readers, bands, labels, message board posters and lurkers and more. As TB stumbles into its sixth year of existence, we once again hope to make the site bigger and better and more frequently updated. At least that’s my New Year’s Resolution. Again. See you soon.

RIGHT HERE. BE BACK SOON.

TB summer vacation is over. We have just about a full issue’s worth of content on the editor’s desk right now, that we’re just making a few tweaks to and waiting for a few last minute adds. Here’s some reviews to tide you over for a few days while we finish. TB Issue #24 will be up in the old magazine-style format soon enough, including another full reviews column, tape/demos/zines reviews, a half-dozen interviews, the return of RFA, new editions of Too Much Junk and Cheap Rewards, a run-in by Mike Edison, weird DVD coverage from Rob Vertigo and more surprises. More big TB changes coming as well. And once again, to everyone who sent us review materials, we’re trying our damndest and if you don’t see all or any of your stuff here, please be assured it will be in the big issue. Thanks all for sticking with us. See you soon.

Fuuuuck. It’s May already? Things just aren’t going right here. Here are the first batch of reviews I promised weeks…months…ago. Part A of 3. I apologize once again to all labels and bands sending materials, the staff is working overtime as we speak to catch up on the “To Do” pile. We have another page typed up and ready for graphics, so look for that soon. I mixed some embarrassingly old and shockingly new releases for this section, so if you don’t see all (or any) of your records in this update, please rest assured they are coming. Thanks again to everyone involved, staff and labels/bands. I’m doing my best to keep up here, and doing a typically terrible job. Next update will be up before the Pain in the Big Neck IV fest weekend (May 29-30 here in Buffalo), I will guarantee that. Possible format changes coming…maybe going back to a quarterly “issue” format. Maybe bring back Old Yeller. Who knows. Send us some feedback. And send us some content too! Interviews upcoming: Grave Blankets, Ooga Boogas, Yolks and more…..see ya soon. Reviews are here.

Yeah. I was hoping to have this next update right here be the new reviews section, but the deadline clock is staring at me right now and I have to face up to the fact that it’s just not gonna happen tonight. I apologize. But what I do have for you is the next installment in the ‘Lars Vs…’ interview series, wherein our intrepid hero matches wits with the enigmatic Love Tan. Please enjoy. Next edition is already in the bag as well, where Lars combats some Aussies. Me? I’m off to Pittsburgh for Totally Wired in a few short hours with the rest of the Buffalo contingent. See you there? And also, R.I.P. to the girls in Clockclean er, it was fun while it lasted, see you on the 2012 Skull Music Reunion Tour. So, I’ll have the first of many new reviews updates ready when we get back, plus some bonus coverage of the fest and more more more….

Here we have an entertaining diversion to start the work week, a self-professed article about a “subculture of a subgenre of a subculture” from our Japanese field office. Crust pants? Our American minds know nothing of them, but learn we shall. Not the usual TB fare, and we’re not turning fashion mag, but I thought it was culturally interesting and funny. This will hopefully tide you over for a few days whilst I finish editing the next reviews column (Part One). April already? FUCK. And Japanese labels and bands, please take note of Jesse’s contact info in the column and on the contacts page, our man in Osaka is ready and willing to take on any and all review materials.

Hey hey hey. Here is the first volley of our 2009 Spring(ish) Reviews Offensive. Lots of demos and tapes to review, thanks for sending them and sorry for the delay. Next up will be new releases in two or three parts with reissues and stuff mixed in. Some good interviews and features on deck as well, but I’ll keep those under wraps for now. I think we’re ready to forge ahead and make the most out of this year. Thanks one and all for their participation and support. Festival season approaches, you have Totally Wired in Pittsburgh in mid-April, The Romantic Getaway (formerly Horriblefest) in Cleveland in early May, the Pain in the Big Neck 10th Anniversary Show in Buffalo in late May, then The Mummies shows in June and I do believe The Oblivians/Gories dates are in June as well. Gonna be busy! See you soon.

Hey. New Coppens column here, which recaps his best of last year. Look for more Matt in ‘09, our most reliable columist. More new shit up soon, cassette/demo review real shortly them more reviews and interviews etcetera. We have quite a bit of good shit lined up, so hopefully The Editor get these updates moving quickly. And thanks to everyone who donated to the Termbo Telethon, we love you all.