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Top 10 1990s albums I wish I wrote, by Whores. frontman Christian Lembach
[Photo courtesy Chad Hess] Atlanta’s Whores. last graced us with their noisy brand of rock ‘n’ roll via 2013's EP Clean. After three years, we’ve got a just a tiny bit longer to wait for some new tunes. (Their debut LP GOLD drops October 28 on eOne.) Until then, we’ve got an exclusive first listen […]
10 essential political bands every punk fan needs to hear
When pub-rock singer Joe Strummer of the 101ers first met with former London SS guitarist Mick Jones in 1976 to brainstorm material for a new band eventually named the Clash, Strummer was shown one of his songs, “I’m So Bored With You.” He wasn’t having it: “‘Ere, let’s rewrite this now!” The rather wimpy romantic […]
More Unheard Music
I’m not feeling particularly surly about anything today. The new issue is done and all I want to do is sit in opaque darkness listening to sound effects records. Instead, I’m going to get nerdy. Since the fantasy sport team community seems to get bigger every year without any shame whatsoever, I figured I’d […]
These 15 albums from 1997 irrefutably proved that punk was far from dead
1997: All media is declaring the alternative–rock explosion—for which Nirvana lit the fuse—over. This means the commercial pop-punk wave Green Day touched off was over in their eyes, too. That selfsame media could not have been more wrong. Green Day had just issued their fifth album, Nimrod. The Offspring, the band who made the catchphrase […]
Check out these rare photos of punk legends, as captured by Jim Saah
“People were commenting about this one photo I took of Marginal Man that was in the inner sleeve of their record [Identity, Dischord Records, 1984],” mused veteran Washington, D.C. punk/alt-rock photographer Jim Saah via telephone. He was reflecting on an exhibit at D.C.’s Lost Origins Gallery celebrating his new book In My Eyes: Photographs 1982-1997 […]
15 punk albums from 1992 that thrived in the era of grunge
The mood of 1992: “We won!” Nirvana’s Nevermind sold by the truckload hourly. All anyone could talk about was alternative rock and grunge. Record biz execs walked around that spring’s SXSW convention in Austin in floppy, artfully unwashed hair, just-purchased flannel shirts and ripped jeans. You’d pass a line of them in the parking lot […]
Web Exclusive: A conversation with United Nations' Geoff Rickly
UNITED NATIONS is fucking dead. Well, maybe. The collective may have already finished recording everything their rapidly beating hearts could desire, anyway. Whether or not their studio lives have come to an end, they’ve already provided more than enough to wrap your head around. As you’ll read, UN are as bizarre a secret supergroup of […]
These punk records from 2000 led the genre into a brand-new century
2000: The year Texas Gov. George W. Bush vanquished Bill Clinton’s Vice President Al Gore under what many contend was less-than-honest circumstances. Bush would assume the following January the seat in the Oval Office that his father George H.W. Bush occupied a decade before. The 43rd U.S. president soon blazed through Clinton’s budget surplus in […]
City And Colour share lyric video for new song, "Wasted Love"
Dallas Green is set to release his fifth studio album under the banner of City And Colour on October 9. We've already heard the lengthy lead single from If I Should Go Before You, and now a second taste of the record is available with a lyric video. [Photo cred: Alysse Gafkjen] In regards to the […]
Ruston Kelly’s The Weakness is his most “dirt emo” album yet
Ruston Kelly details his new album, The Weakness, his “dirt emo” sound, and covering Dashboard Confessional’s “Screaming Infidelities” with Chris Carrabba.
