ALBUMS: August 2022 In Review
New LPs by Julia Jacklin, Panic! At The Disco and The Mountain Goats are in order for late summer
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Merge Records
Redd Kross’s Neurotica at 35: Still Playing Their Songs
Looking back at the album where the teen babes from Monsanto became men
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ALBUMS: Unsubscribing to Arcade Fire (Is Harder Than It Looks)
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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ALBUMS: The Defeatist Beauty of Superchunk’s 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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Bob Mould Navigates the American Crisis
The Minneapolis punk legend rages and reflects on life in 2020
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Hiss Golden Messenger: The Diary of a Road Warrior and Family Man
M.C. Taylor discusses his longtime band’s 11th LP, Terms of Surrender
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The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, Ranked
A belatedly mathematical celebration of an indie pop masterwork for its 20th anniversary
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Mike Krol Amps Up the Fuzz On Power Chords
RNRG talks to the L.A. power pop tunesmith about his new album
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Sunshine Superman
An unrepentant Bob Mould keeps to his calling
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Teen Babes Eternal
An exclusive chat with Steven McDonald of Redd Kross
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