SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Local man Travis Anders recently listened to all 15 Genesis albums while waiting for a chance to back out of…
Just before America bled and shortly after Y2K failed, the 21st century started with a rock/roll bang, or whimper depending upon which of you miscreants…
How has it already been 25 years since 1999? 25 years since you were a naive pre-teen who hadn’t yet experienced the joy of turning…
Ska may be a punchline to some, but to us it’s also a punchline. Still, there are some high quality ska bands that deserve notoriety,…
Ramones. That’s the tweet. Sire Records formed almost sixty, yes, SIXTY years ago and is still active! Wow, what a difference! Anyway, we attempt to…
The Appleseed Cast has quietly been one of the lasting emo and/or post-rock and/or indie rock bands of the last few decades. And for a…
2003 was a prolific year for punk music. The United States’ decision to invade Iraq had been unpopular, particularly among punk musicians, so it was…
2004 was a totally normal time where nothing weird ever happened. Donald Trump wasn’t a threat to democracy, Iraq was liberated thanks to America’s heroic…
There’s always a lot of talk about how 1994 was the year of punk with all the mainstream success of bands like Green Day, The…
Washington, D.C.’s Dischord Records, which is often spelled incorrectly, was formed by two-fourths of seminal hardcore band Minor Threat, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, in…
Whether you discovered sunny Huntington Beach, California by way of icey New Haven, Connecticut’s Revelation Records from reverential New York Hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits or…
COLUMBIA, S.C. — So-called At the Gates superfan Derek Chaulk was rattled after he discovered the Swedish metal band’s discography includes six other albums outside…
On a night no different than any other, we found ourselves a bit bored and sadly out of weed. We were pretty certain we had…
Hidden tracks, the post-credits scene of the album world, have been around for a while and are sometimes used to hide tracks that didn’t quite…
NOFX is a band that, based on where someone knows them from, can tell you a lot about that person. For some it was the…