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Rock 

The Darkness Get Toasty

April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2025, Cooking Vinyl, Dan Hawkins, Dreams on Toast, Justin Hawkins, The Darkness

Dan Hawkins talks about the band’s oddly titled new album

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Alternative Rock Rock 

The Collected Cracker

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2024, Alternative History: A Cracker Retrospective, Camper Van Beethoven, Cooking Vinyl, Cracker, David Lowery, Eurotrash Girl, Johnny Hickman, Low, Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)

David Lowery talks about his longtime band’s career-spanning retrospective

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Records 

ALBUMS: March 2023 In Review

March 31, 2023July 3, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2023, Andy Fletcher, Colin Blunstone, Cooking Vinyl, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd., Different Game, Interscope Records, Lana del Rey, Martin Gore, Memento Mori, Rod Argent, The Zombies

Digging into fantastic new LPs by The Zombies, Depeche Mode and Lana Del Rey

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Britpop Rock 

Blur’s Dave Rowntree: Raised On The Radio

January 28, 2023January 29, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments Alex James, Blur, Britpop, Cooking Vinyl, Damon Albarn, Dave Rowntree, Graham Coxon, Parliament, Radio Songs

The renowned drummer steps out with solo debut

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Folk Punk 

Gogol Bordello: Coming to Terms with the Era of the End of Eras 

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Agnostic Front, Cooking Vinyl, Eugene Hütz, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gorilla Biscuits, Green Day, Jello Biafra, Joe Lally, Les Claypool, Primus, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Roger Miret, Solidaritine, Tre Cool, Ukraine, Walter Schreifels

Frontman Eugene Hütz talks about the band’s new album Solidaritine and the ongoing war in his Ukrainian homeland

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Alternative Rock 

Make No Mistake (Fatal or Otherwise), Del Amitri Are Back

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Jason Perri 2 Comments 2021, Cooking Vinyl, Del Amitri, Fatal Mistakes, Justin Currie

Talking Nostalgia, Brexit and Bob Dylan with frontman Justin Currie as the U.K. alt-pop vets release their first new album in 19 years

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New Wave 

The Ghost In You Returns

August 14, 2020November 20, 2023 Jason Perri 2 Comments 2020, Cooking Vinyl, Dinosaur Jr., Love Spit Love, Made Of Rain, Mars Williams, President Gas, Richard Butler, The Psychedelic Furs, Tim Butler

A Chat with Tim Butler of the Psychedelic Furs

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Alternative Rock 

Noah Gunderson Shares Lament With His Lover

September 2, 2019September 4, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Audrey Hepburn, Cooking Vinyl, Leonard Cohen, Lover, Nick Drake, Noah Gundersen Lover, Noah Gunderson, Robin Williams

Dissecting the lyrics to the gifted songwriter’s excellent new LP, despite sharing its title with Taylor Swift

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