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ALBUMS: January 2023 In Review

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Kara Tucker 2 Comments Belle and Sebastian, Fucked Up, Late Developers, Loma Vista, Margo Price, Matador Records, Merge Records, One Day, Strays, Stuart Murdoch

Looking at new albums from Margo Price, Belle and Sebastian and Fucked Up

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Indie Rock Punk Remembrance Rock 

Hamish Kilgour Gone At 65

December 5, 2022December 6, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments David Kilgour, Flying Nun Records, Hamish Kilgour, Merge Records, New Zealand, The Clean, The Mad Scene

The influential New Zealand musician and songwriter had been missing for several days

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Alternative Rock Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Indie Rock New Wave Pop Records Rock 

ALBUMS: August 2022 In Review

August 31, 2022September 1, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2022, Atlantic Records, Bleed Out, Fueled By Ramen, Julia Jacklin, Merge Records, Mountain Goats, Panic! At the Disco, Polyvinyl Records, PRE PLEASURE, Viva Las Vengeance

New LPs by Julia Jacklin, Panic! At The Disco and The Mountain Goats are in order for late summer

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Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop Punk Rock 

Redd Kross’s Neurotica at 35: Still Playing Their Songs

July 8, 2022July 8, 2022 Kathy Fennessy 0 Comments 1987, 35th Anniversary, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Jeff McDonald, Merge Records, Red Cross, Red Kross, Redd Kross, Steven McDonald, Teen Babes From Monsanto, that dog., The Bangles, The Go-Gos, The Muffs, Third Eye, Tommy Erdelyi, Tommy Ramone

Looking back at the album where the teen babes from Monsanto became men

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Alternative Rock Indie Rock Rock 

ALBUMS: Unsubscribing to Arcade Fire (Is Harder Than It Looks)

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments “Su, “Sunflower”, 2022, ABBA, Achtung Baby, Arcade Fire, Columbia Records, Merge Records, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, U2, WE, Win Butler

WE is supposed to be the anthemic Canadian ensemble’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind, so why do they seem like the ones left behind?

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Indie Rock 

ALBUMS: The Defeatist Beauty of Superchunk’s Wild Loneliness

February 26, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments John Wilbur, Jon Wurster, Laura Ballance, Mac MacCaughan, Merge Records, North Carolina, Superchunk, Wild Loneliness

No one’s ever had a career like the North Carolina indie-pop punks, who’ve just released the fourth great album of their second act era

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Alternative Rock Indie Rock Punk 

Bob Mould Navigates the American Crisis

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 Jason Perri 0 Comments 2020, American Crisis, Bob Mould, Husker Du, Jason Narducy, Jon Wurster, Merge Records, Siberian Butterfly, Sugar, Workbook

The Minneapolis punk legend rages and reflects on life in 2020 

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Uncategorized 

Hiss Golden Messenger: The Diary of a Road Warrior and Family Man

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 j. poet 0 Comments Durham, Hiss Golden Messenger, M.C. Taylor, Merge Records, North Carolina, San Francisco, The Court and Spark, Waylon Jennings

M.C. Taylor discusses his longtime band’s 11th LP, Terms of Surrender

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Indie Rock Pop 

The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, Ranked

October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 1999, 69 Love Songs, LD Beghtol, Merge Records, Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields

A belatedly mathematical celebration of an indie pop masterwork for its 20th anniversary

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Indie Rock Power Pop 

Mike Krol Amps Up the Fuzz On Power Chords

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Merge Records, Mike Krol, Power pop, The Strokes, Weezer

RNRG talks to the L.A. power pop tunesmith about his new album

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Alternative Rock Power Pop 

Sunshine Superman

March 7, 2019April 11, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Bob Mould, Husker Du, Merge Records

An unrepentant Bob Mould keeps to his calling

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Pop Punk Rock 

Teen Babes Eternal

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Bill Kopp 0 Comments Merge Records, Redd Kross, The Melvins

An exclusive chat with Steven McDonald of Redd Kross

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