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August 2017

REVIEWS

AR-15 DOGS OF WAR (C RAGE!) Whiskey-swilling, shirtless, and full of banter during their live shows, this trio’s latest cassette, Dogs of War, recalls influential ‘80s/ early...

Alex Taylor, Ben Miotke, Dan McCoy, Emily Elhaj, Leigh Checkman, Maeve Holler, Robert Landry, Travis Bird

June 2017

REVIEWS

COMO MAMAS MOVE UPSTAIRS (DAPTONE) The gospel music tradition lives on in many churches across the country, and one of the better examples of that tradition lies in the powerful...

Ben Miotke, Brandon Lattimore, Dan McCoy, Leigh Checkman, Nora Maria Fuller, Travis Bird

October 2016

REVIEWS

13 DREAMS POST GOSPEL DISCO (BROTHERS SOMETHING) New Orleans’ 13 Dreams, Justin Batiste and Jesse Zenon, have debuted with a fantastically lush album. While its title Post...

Alan Singleton, Ben Miotke, Brandon Lattimore, Carl Elvers, Dan McCoy, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, William Archambeault

September 2016

Reviews

APHEX TWIN CHEETAH (WARP) Richard D. James has certainly been prolific these past few years. Between 2014’s triumphant Syro (the vast archive of previously-unreleased tracks put...

Ben Miotke, Brandon Lattimore, Carl Elvers, Corey Cruse, Holly Mohon, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Maeve Holler, Robert Landry, William Archambeault

August 2016

Reviews

  ALICE BAG S/T (DON GIOVANNI)   Perhaps it was her activism, the penning of her memoirs of the Hollywood punk scene of the late ‘70s and of her travels to...

Alan Singleton, Andrew Mullins III, Corey Cruse, Dan McCoy, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman

July 2016

Reviews

BANTAM FOXES GOLD RECORD (BANDCAMP)  A Bantam Foxes release is like a sonic postcard that comes every few months, attempting to pack in as much as it can without seeming too...

Alan Singleton, Andrew Mullins III, Corey Cruse, Dan McCoy, Kelly McClu, Leigh Checkman, William Archambeault

April 2016

Reviews, April 2016

Music – Books – Art Music DANIEL ASH STRIPPED (MAIN MAN) Anyone who has ever darkened the doors of Hot Topic or coughed from dancing too long next to a smoke machine...

Andrew Mullins III, Brooke Schueller, Corey Cruse, Dan Fox, Dan McCoy, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman

March 2016

Reviews, March 2016

Books BOB MEHR TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS (DACAPO PRESS) There’s an expression—”don’t sit too close at the ballet”—that’s sometimes used to...

Andrew Mullins III, Ben DL, Brooke Schueller, Dan McCoy, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Nathan Tucker

January 2016

Reviews, January 2016

ADELE 25 (XL) Look, I get it. I’m being played. I’m being pandered to. I am fully aware of it. But I also don’t give a shit. I’m all in on this one: Adele is a magical...

Alex Taylor, Dan Fox, Dan McCoy, Erin Hall, Jenn Attaway, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Kevin Comarda, Leigh Checkman, Nathan Tucker

December 2015

Reviews, December 2015

ADULTS THIS IS OUR YEAR (THIS IS HURRY UP AND WAIT) I have to channel my inner Bryan Funck because I was hoping he’d review this record but dude is so “busy” these days,...

Bryan Funck, Dan Fox, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Michael Bateman, Nathan Tucker

December 2015

Top 5 Badass Divas in Book Form

5. CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL I could hardly resist humming the Sleater-Kinney song from which the title of Brownstein’s memoir is taken, because it is...

Leigh Checkman

November 2015

Reviews, November 2015

Books   KRISTIN HERSH DON’T SUCK, DON’T DIE: GIVING UP VIC CHESNUTT (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS) In the mid-1990s, Throwing Muses’ founder Kristin Hersh embarked on what...

Alex Taylor, Carl Elvers, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Nathan Tucker, Robert Landry

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