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Subhumans: Death Was Too Kind

by Alan Ranta

[3.Feb.09] :. Without a doubt, these ten songs place the Subhumans along side D.O.A. and NoMeansNo as pillars of Canadian punk history.

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Loose Nut in His Head: Raymond Pettibon Rediscovered…

by Robert Celli

[26.Jan.09] :. Human depravity, sexualized violence, macabre desires come to life in two dimensions; this is the world artist Raymond Pettibon renders in pen and ink.  It is a world mirrored sonically by the...

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The Death Set: Worldwide

by Marc A. Price

[27.Aug.08] :. Songs fed through the early 1980s UK punk scene and spat out at velocity accompanied by a biscuit tin lid, a cheap Bontempi organ and a Speak and Spell. It's a noise, but a welcome noise.

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Books Review

Slayer’s Reign in Blood

by Adrien Begrand

[16.Jul.08] :. Metal fans are a cynical bunch when it comes to outsiders offering critiques of their favorite pieces of work, and can pick apart a treatise with the thoroughness of fussy jazz enthusiasts.

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Bum Kon: Drunken Sex Sucks

by Chris Conaton

[8.Jul.08] :. Smooch Records unearths an album's worth of songs from a little-remembered early '80s punk band.

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A.R.E. Weapons: Modern Mayhem

by Mike Schiller

[29.Oct.07] :. A.R.E. Weapons' fourth full-length just sounds like something that would come from New York.

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The World/Inferno Friendship Society: Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s Twentieth Century

by Lana Cooper

[21.Sep.07] :. A punk/cabaret operetta about one of the most underrated of actors of the previous century? World/Inferno makes this seemingly kitschy concept work.

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Kleveland: Kleveland

by Michael Keefe

[4.Sep.07] :. Portland riff-rockin' trio turn in a solid sophomore album.

 

Dollar Store: Money Music

by Alan Brown

[24.Aug.07] :. This is one country-punk band who won't be selling out to "the man" anytime soon.

 

The Gaslight Anthem: Sink or Swim

by Dan Raper

[21.Aug.07] :. The Gaslight Anthem aren't the first band to hold up New Jersey's ultra-suburbanism with pop-punk pride.

 
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The Damned: Damned Damned Damned

by Michael Keefe

[26.Jun.07] :. This lavishly packaged three-disc edition makes a strong case for this excellent punk album's entry into the "must have" canon alongside the classic debuts from the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

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Branching Out: An Interview With Ted Leo

by Jennifer Kelly

[23.Apr.07] :. America's last remaining old-style punk rocker revisits his hardcore, pop, mod, soul, celtic and reggae roots in his fifth and latest full-length. "I knew going into it that I didn't want this record to be as concise as the last one," he says.

 

Punk professor online

by Jason Gross

[5.Apr.07] :. Vivien Goldman is quite a restless soul.  In addition to being an author (including the recent Book of Exodus about Bob Marley’s classic album), musician (who’s recently re-started...

 

In Memoriam: Joe Strummer

by Jody Beth Rosen

[22.Mar.07] :. Mere months before he left us to rock that grand casbah in the clouds, Joe Strummer remained a vital rock 'n' roll warrior.