The idea of style, and competing for the best style, is the key to all forms of rocking. That’s why we sent Senny Mau to Sound…
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Walter Delgado Tells the Hard Times Podcast About Lifting Weights and Opening up on a New Record
I think the first time I met Walter was after a Rotting Out show at the Branch Street House in Sacto. My friend Scott Ruggles made…
Book Review: Let’s Get Fucked Up And Observe the Unexplainable
Ian Kappos’s Crossfaded in Narnia is a brief, close encounter with the surreal Ian Kappos, Crossfaded in Narnia 2018, Eibonvale Press Writer Ian Kappos was…
Gerard Way Talks Young Animal, ‘Doom Patrol’ and Managing Creativity
DC’s pop-up imprint Young Animal, curated by musician and comics creator Gerard Way, is returning to shelves after an 11-month break. The ongoing Doom Patrol, co-penned…
My 60 Seconds of Fame at the Brooklyn Air Guitar Championship
Nikki Fury jumped and smashed his skull against a low-hanging beam. It wasn’t part of his routine. Fortunately, his shimmering black wig — which paired nicely…
Spotify’s Discover Weekly Algorithm Sent Millions of Listeners to This Small, Broken up Band
Things seemed to be looking up for Philadelphia-based indie rock band The Teeth in 2008. The band had released the album You’re My Lover Now the…
A Brief History of Hardcore Kids Making Shoegaze
It wasn’t until the 2010s that hardcore and shoegaze truly became siblings. There were weirdo acts in the ’90s, of course, like Swirlies (a noise-poppy shoegaze…
Book Review: A Man Stops Time and Loses Himself in a Blizzard
Keith Buckley’s Watch is a deep dive into grief, the self, and isolation. Watch, Keith Buckley 2018, Rare Bird Books You know the adage that it’s…
How Reagan Youth (Eventually) Got ‘Aerosmith Money’ Out of ‘Airheads’
“They came up to us and said, ‘We’re covering your song and we named our band after the song … we’re gonna make you a lot…