The Aquadolls are doing it all. The Southern California band effortlessly pours out infectious shoegazey bops, earnest headbangers, cosmic surf-punk ballads, and electrified power-pop anthems— on…
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Digging into the Past, Present, and Future with Pom Pom Squad
Pom Pom Squad’s Mia Berrin (vocalist/guitarist) and Shelby Keller (drummer) are overcome with nostalgia when I meet them in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. “They had a big…
National Wake’s Ivan Kadey on Leaving South Africa and Starting Over in America
Everyone seems to agree that National Wake were the best and most authentic South African punk rock band, a group who strived to eradicate apartheid through…
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…
Poli van Dam of The Bombpops On Touring With Type 1 Diabetes
If you’re like me and hear the word diabetes, the first thought to appear in your pop culture-infected brain is the Liberty Medical commercial featuring Wilford…
Interview: Chad Troncale on Learning Bass, The Last Jedi, and Sickness Divine
I remember it like it was yesterday. Way back in that oh-so innocent time we now call the ’80s, I was a young whippersnapper high on…
Interview: Strange Magic is Putting the Detroit in DIY
“Detroit punks Strange Magic fake signing and beef with Fat Wreck Chords to promote new album Unfortunately” sounds like the kind of story you’d see on…
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…
Cosmic Strut: Red Death’s Connor Donegan on the Influence of Jazz Fusion
You may not know Connor Donegan by name, but there’s a high probability you know his work. Whether drumming for death metal steamroller Genocide Pact, barking…