Friday, October 28 2011
Counterbalance No. 56: ‘The Clash’
This week, Counterbalance moves the town to the Clash City Rockers, so if you need a little jump of electrical shockers, this punk debut is the 56th most acclaimed album of all time.
Thursday, October 20 2011
More Than Music: How Going Underground Kept Punk From “Breaking” in 1991
From pivotal, iconic venues in New York and California and the ubiquity of the house show, to the dramatic, intentional divorce from the highly lucrative hardcore/metal crossover scene, 1991 saw numerous DIY punk rock groups reinterpret a 14-year-old subculture with new and urgent relevance.
Wednesday, September 14 2011
IfIHadAHiFi: Nada Surf + 3 EP
IfIHadAHiFi simply craft black metallic sheets of out-of-tune punk rock that are engaging in same way that you might find horrific fascination in passing a particularly nasty car wreck on the roadside.
Thursday, August 4 2011
Bouncing Souls: 6 July 2011 - New York
Bouncing Souls rock Highline Ballroom for the first two nights of "For All The Unheard", an eight album, four night spectacle in New York City.
Tuesday, April 26 2011
Rise Against: Endgame
Rise Against continues to perfect its own craft and solidify itself as a mainstay in today's alt rock scene.
Tuesday, March 29 2011
Lecherous Gaze: Lecherous Gaze
Punk-thrash-rock fusionists display a great deal of promise on this new EP.
Friday, May 21 2010
Jaime Hernandez’s World Revealed With a Biographer’s Eye and a Fan’s Enthusiasm
If you read comics, you know of the Hernandez brothers whether you’ve read their work or not. Even if you grew up in a tiny town where the only places to get comics were the drug store or the gas station, Love and Rockets somehow entered your vocabulary.
Friday, March 5 2010
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
What do you get when you combine the futuristic teachings of R. Buckminster Fuller with the proto-punk/metal music of the Misfits?
Monday, November 16 2009
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine: The Audacity of Hype
Was it too much to expect an updated version of the revolutionary rhetoric?
Thursday, October 29 2009
Jackass: The Lost Tapes
The Jackass Boys embody a forward momentum that teeters towards the eradication of all that they can't stand: hypocrisy, condescension, and perhaps worst of all, the dull throbbing boredom of routine.
