Ah, John Darnielle. Musician, novelist, actor on the TV show “Poker Face.” Best known as the founding (and often sole) member of the Mountain Goats,…
Humanity has always feared the unknown, and in our hubris, we like to think that every creature on earth has already been discovered. Why then…
Deafheaven appeared out of nowhere in 2011 with a solid debut LP, and then became the decade’s most exhaustively-argued-about purveyors of heavy music in 2013.…
Ah, the 2000s. A simpler time, when a thousand weird mp3 blogs all named “Melted Acetate Owl” or something were a thing. Climate change and…
Alex Giannascoli isn’t just the man behind the TikTok treehouse song. He’s also a prolific songwriter, avid dog lover, and the only musician (to my…
You know what they say: if you remember Britpop, you weren’t there. Specifically, you probably weren’t in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, when a…
The Black Flag “Bars” logo is one of the most common tattoos you will see on punks and hardcore kids of all ages. But tattooers…
My older sister Randie is finally tying the knot, and we haven’t exactly been on the best of terms since I crashed her Jeep into…
Love them or hate them, IDLES is a band. What many people don’t know is that they’re also super fucking British. Their politically outspoken material…
Indiana Jones was introduced to the world in the year 1981, and so was Canada’s SNFU. Both traveled the world having oddball adventures, searching for…
Family game night is an excellent way to bring your deepest darkest resentments and conflicts with the people closest to you right up to the…
You remember Lagwagon, your older brother listened to them during his brief punk phase before going off to college and becoming an investment banker. Hailing…
Serious question: when ranking the best hardcore bands of all time, does Poison the Well ever get brought up? Because they should at least be…
Seems like everywhere you look these days there’s a new song waiting to be heard. No, we’re not being poetic here. We’re not using the…
So you’re fighting with your partner again. They call you a narcissist but even though you’re the farthest thing from it–It’s not your fault you’re…