January 6, 2023

Fireworks, White Reaper and the Lemon Twigs are our tracks of the week

Welcome to Sound Station, where we’re highlighting the best new tracks that came out this week. Head into the weekend with songs from Fireworks, White Reaper and more. Fireworks’ “God Approved Insurance Plan” is a fiery critique of evangelical extremism  After a nine-year hiatus since their last album, Detroit pop-punkers Fireworks have returned with Higher Lonely...

10 incredible alternative albums that turn 10 in 2023

2013 was a huge year for music. We're rounding up major alternative albums celebrating 10-year anniversaries in 2023, including the 1975, Fall Out Boy, Lorde, Paramore, and more.

The oral history of Anti-Flag: "We were machete-ing our way through failure"

Punk is a genre full of people who are always yelling, but over the past 30 years, Anti-Flag might have been yelling the most. It’s frequently between songs onstage, about the sorry state of the world — wars for oil, police brutality, a system rigged against its people. Truth is, Anti-Flag have had plenty of...