Feature: Best Songs of 2020 (Excerpt) December 29, 2020 14. The Chicks: “Gaslighter” [Sony Music] Election years breed proselytizing – and, yes, a fair bit of preaching to the choir. And 2020, in… Continue Reading
Review: Coriky – S/T June 29, 2020 Legendary Washington, D.C. post-hardcore act Fugazi has been on an indefinite hiatus for nearly 20 years. But the debut LP from super-trio Coriky, which… Continue Reading
Review: Eric Bachmann – “Misinformation Age” October 9, 2019 Only Eric Bachmann could make rage over the Trump era’s alienating 24-hour-a-day mind-fuck seem elegiac. His new, one-off single, “Misinformation Age,” out yesterday via… Continue Reading
Review: Demons – “Uglier Americans” July 30, 2019 As protest songs go, this one, yep, is pretty damn angry. “Uglier Americans” – the new MAGA-targeting protest song, out today online, from Virginia… Continue Reading
Review: Curtis Eller’s American Circus – “A Poison Melody” May 30, 2019 I’m fairly convinced at this point that, if the singer/songwriter Curtis Eller wanted to walk on water, he’d find a way to do it… Continue Reading
Review: Mudhoney – “Digital Garbage” September 30, 2018 Mudhoney, which is now running strong past its 30th year of existence, has never really been that topical. (I mean, c’mon, “Touch Me, I’m Sick”… Continue Reading
Profile: Marc Ribot (2018) September 14, 2018 The separation of immigrant children from their parents. The trashing of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The white nationalism. The Mueller investigation. The… Continue Reading
