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Owen Lane | Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Over the past several years, Death Grips has been slowly seeping into mainstream culture. Their song “No Love” provided a fitting soundtrack for the titular character’s drug binge in a 2014 episode of “BoJack Horseman.” In the “Atlanta” Season 2 premiere, the character Darius blares the 2016 Death Grips track “Hot Head” on his car
Megan Valley | Friday, January 19, 2018
Jeff Rosenstock might be the oldest millennial alive, but his anxiety-driven punk attitude makes me feel like I’m 16 again — shockingly, perhaps, that’s a high compliment. He has the ability to switch almost flippantly between sheer passion and excitement and overwhelming, perhaps even crippling anxiety and fear that can be hard to replicate outside
Owen Lane | Thursday, November 16, 2017
A geeky looking, yet incredibly famous musician from Long Island once wrote, “We’re living here in Allentown / and they’re closing all the factories down / Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time / Filling out forms / Standing in line.” The cheery tune by Billy Joel chronicled the bittersweet nostalgia that accompanied the demise of
Mike Donovan | Friday, October 27, 2017
Writing sucks. As deadlines approach, I reach into the cavernous vestibules of my idle brain, shine a feeble light onto its damp walls and find nothing. My phone pings, sending up a dopamine flare. For the next 30 minutes, memes captivate my world. The clock ticks. I return to my documents, beat out a few
John Wilson | Tuesday, September 26, 2017
I got into Ted Leo by way of a brief obsession with the band Titus Andronicus. All I knew at the time was that he had taken my then favorite band with him on tour, which was all it took for me to look into his music. That was around 2012, and in the five
Adam Ramos | Thursday, March 2, 2017
A quick examination of The Courtneys’ facebook page is worth the trip. Vaporwave videos, puppy pics and even a quiz game titled “Which COURTNEY Are You” populate their wall (it’s 17 questions long — I am a “Sydney”). Further probing into the New Zealand via Vancouver sweet punk outfit’s page and you may discover the
Mike Donovan | Friday, February 17, 2017
The punk mentality, in the eyes of many, revolves around indiscriminate mudslinging. Landmark punk acts (i.e. The Sex Pistols, The Dead Kennedys and Black Flag) rallied swarms of fans, not by complexity of thought, but with sheer force. They threw ideas like grenades, aiming for whatever target would cause the biggest ruckus. In doing so,
Adrian Mark Lore | Tuesday, February 7, 2017
While hosting the 40th season finale of “Saturday Night Live,” Louis C.K. joked in his opening monologue that, as a result of “mild racism” he developed as a child in the ’70s, he would be mildly amused to learn that a pizza place was run by four African-American women. Unless, he said, it were some
Kelly McGarry, Erin McAuliffe, Adam Ramos, Jimmy Kemper, Adrian Mark Lore and Mike Donovan | Monday, February 6, 2017
Adam Ramos, Erin McAuliffe, Jimmy Kemper, Adrian Mark Lore, Mike Donovan and Kelly McGarry discuss the albums we listened to during our impressionable teenage years. Whatever brought us to these albums — whether the quest for love or the need to be different — it’s clear that they shaped our experiences of music.
Adrian Mark Lore | Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Seldom does a band have the opportunity to release two self-titled records over the course of their career. For the Canadian post-punk outfit Preoccupations, a name change provided the opening. Formerly known as Viet Cong, the band decided to opt for a new moniker just last year — and only one year after first capturing