You can arguably predict the mood of a Field Medic album by the look of Kevin Patrick Sullivan’s hair in the cover art. On the front of 2017’s cheeky, joyful Songs From the Sunroom the lo-fi folk singer-songwriter’s red curls are big and bouncy; on 2020’s more somber Floral Prince, they’re closely cropped and hidden […]
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Melbourne punk trio Clamm show how much they care on their new second album
Trying to make sense of the times can feel like an exercise in futility, but it can also be a powerful tool of self-expression. That’s the modus operandi of Clamm, a young Melbourne three-piece founded in 2019 by two childhood friends—guitarist and vocalist Jack Summers and drummer Miles Harding—and soon rounded out by bassist Maisie […]
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Jawbreaker play a series of long-delayed anniversary shows in celebration of 1995’s Dear You
It’s been five years since iconic New York punk band Jawbreaker reunited—though two of those were inactive pandemic years—so that now the band’s second run has nearly matched the length of time they spent releasing records together in the early 90s. Their current tour, originally planned for 2020, is a belated 25th-anniversary celebration of their […]
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The Linda Lindas are here to inspire the youth on their debut LP, Growing Up
When I first saw the Linda Lindas perform “Racist, Sexist Boy”—in the May 2021 video from the Los Angeles Public Library that took the Internet by storm—I got huge “industry plant” energy from them. But I wasn’t really mad about it. The four-piece, which is made up of girls between the ages of 11 and […]
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Rahm lays into Rauner, Jonathan Toews to sit out NHL All-Star Game, and other Chicago news
Also, Binny’s starts alcohol home delivery, and 1985 Bear Jim McMahon swears by medical marijuana.
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Three Beats: A prepared-piano preview of A John Cage Festival
A preview of A John Cage Festival, a posthumous party for Sandy Bull, and a birthday bash for Underground Communique
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Adicts
This English band, formed in 1977, plays raise-your-pint-glass pub punk in outfits straight out of A Clockwork Orange. But though the catchy, brilliantly boneheaded tunes are plenty aggressive, they’re much more likely to inspire a drunken sing-along than a bit of the old ultraviolence. By the early 80s the Adicts were so sick of the […]
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(International) Noise Conspiracy
In the liner notes to their 1999 singles collection The First Conspiracy, this Swedish garage band identified themselves as “a secret society, an underground, a group of urban terrorists aiming to question and attack every instance of our culture.” When the Canadian Web site World Wide Punk subsequently asked Dennis Lyxzen, the band’s front man […]
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(International) Noise Conspiracy
(INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY These Swedish garage rockers are the best thing going nowadays on west-coast punk label Epitaph Records. Pale folks mixing R & B with Marxist punk might call forth unpleasant memories of the waning days of the Jam and Gang of Four, but on Survival Sickness the Conspiracy careens through 40 minutes of […]