15. “Kids Don’t Follow” (Stink EP, 1982) Supposedly, Twin/Tone Records founder Peter Jesperson was convinced that “Kids Don’t Follow” off Stink had hit potential, and it’s easy to hear why — this was the probably the first truly indelible song the Replacements… Read More
Sending Money and Stems is the new release from Santa Cruz-based singer-songwriter Joe Kaplow, out 30 April via Fluff and Gravy Records. The new single, “February Prorated Rent”, taps into frustrations the California-based musician has experienced with gentrification in the… Read More
Sigur Rós’ Odin’s Raven Magic came into existence in starts and stops like a bird that couldn’t get off the ground. The record, a live orchestral composition originally imagined by Sigur Rós, first saw the light of day nearly two… Read More
Solid Love, the 2020 offering from Adeline Hotel, saw the band — led by multi-instrumentalist Dan Knishkowy — embrace a feeling of community. The full band recordings embraced warmth and togetherness, both in the ease in which the musicians locked… Read More
When Vladimir Putin demonized LGBTQ people as part of his 2012 presidential re-election campaign and subsequently imposed regressive laws forbidding the positive portrayal of homosexuality in Russia (the infamous “Law for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for… Read More
I’ve seen a lot of live-streamed shows over the past year, but none have been stranger than the Hold Steady’s early December gigs at the Brooklyn Bowl. As you’d expect, they were playing in an empty room. Well, physically empty.… Read More
Peter Case releases The Midnight Broadcast worldwide on 12 March via Bandaloop Records. The collection comprises covers, ranging from Sleepy John Estes, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, and a host of tunes from the public domain. The record opens with an… Read More
At this point, Billy Bragg is more than just a musician; he’s an institution. The past 15 years have seen him become an author, political commentator, and de facto curator/proselytizer of the Woody Guthrie legacy, in addition to his own… Read More
Claudine, marketed as an urban drama but really just a love story like any other, was released among the slew of blaxploitation films that surged during the 1970s and, as such, was distinguished from those films as an emotional and… Read More
As new strains of the deadly coronavirus circulate globally, it seems that the more positive pandemic of post-punk continually mutates, re-infecting us with new renditions of itself every few years. Post-punk emanated from punk, of course, first as a reaction… Read More