Listening to Swedish Post-Punk band Viagra Boys is like stepping into a comical nightmare of misadventures with no sure way out. If you have ever experienced…
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How Facebook Shitposting Groups Unite Music Fans IRL
Philadelphia-based Joon Daniele Kim didn’t want to just create his music in a vacuum. He wanted to broaden what he was doing and introduce new viewpoints…
This “War Pigs” Cover Will Get You Into the Holiday Spirit
The holidays are here, and we found the perfect thing to show your cousins while you’re out “taking a walk” before dinner: This Home Alone-themed cover…
5 Riffs (With Tabs!) You Can Play in a Guitar Store and Not Look Like Some Jagoff
The politics of a music store are complex, often featuring unwritten rules you only learn after breaking them. The aisles are filled with Jazzmaster-toting hipsters, gray-haired…
Blood, Sweat and Gears: A Reality Show About, Well, Steampunk
You know that special feeling when you’ve totally missed out on a show’s initial run, only to discover how much you love it well after the…
The Joke T-Shirt that Became a Genre-Defining Movement
Pop punk went through a transformation in the early 2010s. The formerly punk-turned-emo-turned-scene aesthetic of the genre landed on a combination of punk ethics, hardcore clothing,…
The Hard Times Guide to Publicly Getting Over a Breakup in NYC
Anyone who’s been in New York long enough to order a bacon, egg and cheese knows there’s a certain kind of loneliness only the city can…
40 Years of Revolution Rock: Remembering The Clash’s U.S. Debut
In the summer of 1999, Rancid was on the Vans Warped tour in Northampton, Mass. I was covering it for the Boston Globe and I went…
A Love Letter to Nu-Metal, the Most Hated Rock Genre of All Time
Hybrid Theory still slams and you know it There will never be another music style as polarizing and divisive as nu-metal. Metalheads absolutely hated it, punk…