Jeff Treppel

Death Knocks (Hoaxed) Read Jeff Treppel on Death Knocks by Hoaxed

And finally, the new release from Portland’s Hoaxed checks all the “Halloween in February” boxes without falling into cheese theshfl.com/album/Death-...

Volumen Brutal (Barón Rojo) Read Jeff Treppel on Volumen Brutal by Barón Rojo

Baron Rojo’s sophomore effort may be the best NWOBHM album made by a non-British band (although recorded there, funnily enough) theshfl.com/album/Volume...

The Real Thing (Faith No More) Read Jeff Treppel on The Real Thing by Faith No More

Revisiting Faith No More’s breakthrough on vinyl helped me really appreciate how perfectly they captured lightning in a bottle (or a fish in a puddle) theshfl.com/album/The-Re...

This month for The Shfl, I decided to write about one favorite, one buried gem, and a new release I’ve been loving.

Listening to a song by forgotten Dutch band Crossfire called “Motorcycles” that starts with the sound of a motorcycle revving and where the chorus is “Motorcycles.” I love metal.

It does and hopefully it will.

Having a stressful one, time to unwind with this second pressing of the GOAT of Japanese heavy psych

There are people who chose to watch Kid Rock instead of that celebration of humanity

YouTube video by onthehalfshel MST3K - Laserblast - Are You Ready For Some Football?

It’s that time again. youtu.be/xvNzhKTXweQ?...

Text me if there’s a Gojira.

Everybody shut up, Olympic curling has started

Pretty proud of this subheader I came up with for my Converge review in the new issue of @decibelmagazine.bsky.social

“Give them money” seems the obvious answer

Have a photo of an original 1973 US pressing of one of the greatest albums of all time to bless your feed.

Oh, I’m absolutely not being sarcastic here, I think this is rad.

Kristen Stewart’s Bold Plan to Bring a Beloved Los Angeles Theater Back to Life How the actor-director is restoring the historic Highland Theatre as a community-centered home for adventurous cinema in LA

Imagine having a bunch of money and using it for genuine good and not just tax write-offs www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kriste...

It’s called “social media” BOOM

Bone Temple has the goods.

I’m a cynical asshole about almost everything but man I love Disneyland.

This book is good! I’m told this by no less an authority than Robert Brockway himself! Support good writing!

I am very glad for this.

It's release day for I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200! It exists now as an item in the world. It should be at your local bookstore. If it's not, if your local bookstore doesn't stock the best books, I see no reason why they should exist. You know what I mean.
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Wait we’re supposed to actually *read* it? Nobody told me that.

Good news: Dave is probably pro-police brutality!

Does anybody have any good feeds of people just posting cool visual art/drawings?

YouTube video by MartyMcflies v2 [1984] Hiroyuki Namba & Sense Of Wonder - Shin Genma Taisen (真幻魔大戦) Image Album

You know what you need this morning? An eighties Japanese glam jam called “Sadistic Psychic Tiger.”

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Reminder on days like this: All we have is each other.

Gave the new Megadeth a spin. Man, Rust in Peace is a great album, huh?

Don’t ask me what that statement is, though.