Tay's 2024 Top Tens

2024 Top Ten as told by Tay (of TAZ) (in no particular order)

I hate the notion that as you age in a youth subculture it becomes more and more difficult to keep up with what is “new” and “happening”. I like to consider myself relatively still tapped in but as if to call my bluff I was asked to contribute to this top tens portion of this publication. Here goes nothing!!

Demos/ Eps/Tapes:

• WITNESS - Demo 
• STREET GLOVES - 2024 Demo
• EXO - Demo
• PURA MANIA - Extranos Casos De La Vida Real
• LOVE & COMPASSION - …or else
• TOTAL CON - Kill Someone You Hate
• BEYOND STATE POWER - Demo
• ALERTTO DE LAFOSA - Vicious Circles Vol.1 Promo Cassette
• DEMENTAR - Enchanted forest
• DECEPT - Ouroboros
• CICADA - True Self Destruction
• KŪKA'ILIMOKU / HAKKAPELIITTA – K​ū​kahakka'ilipeliimokutta (Split Cassette)

LPs

• SUBDUED - Abattoir 
• STRAW MAN ARMY - Earthworks
• THE DARK - Sinking into madness
• TZOMPANTLI - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Forces
• DREW MCDOWALL - A Thread, Silver and Trembling
• PUBLIC ACID - Deadly Struggle
• INVERTEBRATES - Sick to Survive
• FUNERAL LEECH - The Illusion of Time
• PEACE DE RÉSISTANCE - Lullaby For the Debris
• FAZE - Big Upsetter

Shows / Sets

• CHUQUIMAMANI-CONDORI @ a church in queens @ 1am on Jan 1st 2024
• LEBENDEN TOTEN + BOG PEOPLE + FRENZY @ Boxing Ring in Brooklyn
• THREE 6 MAFIA @ Shitty huge venue that's not worth mentioning
• NEGATIVE PLANE + GRAVE MIASMA + IMPURE @ TV Eye 
• INVERTEBRATES @ Unlawful Assembly 
• THE DARK @ Trans Pecos
• QUEST MASTER + PUTRID MARSH @ TV Eye
• SEXPILL + SURPRISE DRESS CODE @ TV Eye
• T.S.S BRADLEY @ Empty Bottle
• SNIPER CULTURE + PUBLIC ACID + FRIED REALITY + CICADA @ Empty Bottle 
• LOVE & COMPASSION @ Bootleg Bar after park show got shut down