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WATCH: San Diego’s benches Release Video for New Single “Naive”

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, benches, California, Naive, Pale Saints, San Diego, The Strokes

The band is on tour all spring long; new EP in thr works

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Alternative Rock Power Pop Rock 

LISTEN: Jody Porter Shares New Single “Light Up The Sky”

February 6, 2024February 7, 2024 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 2024, Adam Schlesinger, EP II, Fountains of Wayne, Gordon Raphael, Jody Porter, Light Up the Sky, The Strokes

The Fountains of Wayne guitarist’s latest, EP II, comes out this Friday

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Hard Rock Rock 

Growing On Me: Permission to Land by The Darkness Turns 20

September 16, 2023September 16, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2003, Atlantic Records, Dan Hawkins, Jet, Justin Hawkins, Permission to Land, The Darkness, The Strokes, The Vines, The White Stripes

Why the British band’s classic debut was no joke

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Alternative Rock Power Pop Rock 

At Every Speed: An Interview With Jody Porter

September 4, 2023February 19, 2024 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 2023, Adam Schlesinger, Brian Young, Chris Collingwood, EP 1, Fountains of Wayne, Guided By Voices, Jody Porter, Pavement, The Strokes

An exclusive chat with the Fountains of Wayne guitar hero

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Records Retail 

The Reissue Section: Mike Love and Al Jardine Sail On With New Beach Boys Box

March 2, 2023March 12, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments Al Jardine, Bob Weir, Guns 'N' Roses, Mike Love, Neil Young, New Order, NRBQ, Ron Hart, The Beach Boys, The Reissue Section, The Strokes

And more of the best reissues in recent months

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Folk Indie Rock 

LISTEN: Former Longwave Drummer Channels T-Bone Burnett On Rustic New Project

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Leonard Cohen, Longwave, Mikey James, Neil Young, New York City, Pale Saints, Singing River, Song Premiere, The Strokes

“Easy To Remember” finds Mikey James bringing some more of that “Northern Folk” vibe to his new outfit with longtime collaborator Anthony Kuhn as Singing River

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Dance Electronic Experimental Hip Hop Industrial New Wave Pop Psychedelics Remembrance 

Florian Schneider April 7, 1947 – April 30, 2020: Year Zero Not Only Can Be Beautiful, It Must Be Beautiful 

May 8, 2020May 10, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Florian Schneider, Jimmy Fallon, Klaus Dinger, Kraftwerk, Michael Rother, Ralf Hütter, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Sun Ra, Sunn O))), Terry Riley, The Eagles, The Rascals, The Strokes, Tom Hanks

Tim Sommer bids Auf Wiedersehen to Herr Schneider, a man responsible for a half-century of innovation in pop musik

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Punk 

Spit and Retrieve: The Hives’ Veni Vidi Vicious at 20

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2000, Epitaph Records, Garage Rock, Hate To Say I Told You So, Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, Melodic Punk, Sweden, The Hives, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Veni Vidi Vicious

Before Is This It or White Blood Cells was the debut from an even more mysterious Swedish quintet that dressed like Shriners sans fez

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Music Journalism 

The Art of Exiting Stage Left

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Al Jourgensen, Albert Hammond Jr., Dave Navarro, Drew Fortune, Fiona Apple, Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza 1992, Ministry, No Encore! Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest Wildest Most Embarrassing Gigs, The Strokes

An exclusive chat with Drew Fortune, whose book No Encore! has some of the world’s top music acts spilling the beans on their craziest gigs

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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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