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Minneapolis-obsessed Beach Slang are back with the EP MPLS
When Philadelphia’s Beach Slang first appeared in 2014 with a couple of EPs, I was fully obsessed. Fronted by former pop punker James Alex Snyder, who spent the 90s cofronting Weston, the band produced hook-filled brilliance by summoning the heartfelt, clean-channel warmth of punks-turned-alt-rock-icons such as the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and the Lemonheads and adding […]
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Riot Fest scores a coup with a reunion of the original Misfits
Three key early members—including front man Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only—will headline Riot Fest as the Original Misfits.
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The Replacements’ story is one of terrific music and terrible behavior
Trouble Boys is Bob Mehr’s fastidiously reported account of one of the midwest’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands.
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The Replacements get retro on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by the design team Hand Carved Graphics.
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Who needs a new Replacements album when you can listen to ‘I Will Dare?’
Twin Cities’ finest are talking about a reunion record, but the classics are just fine.
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For a good time read Riot Fest’s Twitter
Someone high-five whoever is behind the Riot Fest Twitter account for their bonkers work.
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12 O’Clock Track: Paul Westerberg, “My Road Now”
The king of boozy heartbreak is back
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Misery loves Morrissey
Johnny Marr discovered Morrissey—sometime after, one assumes, Morrissey invented himself—in 1982. Within a couple of years, Morrissey’s strangled romanticism and Marr’s extremely pragmatic guitar playing made the Smiths one of England’s most celebrated bands. Besides the press’s absolute infatuation with the enigmatic Morrissey—heightened by his refusal to cop to being either gay or straight, claiming, […]
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Band out of time: Are the Replacements too late to be rock stars?
The Replacements’ finest moment came on TV—Saturday Night Live in 1986. They were appearing to promote their fourth album, Tim, which was their first for a major label (their previous albums—Hootenanny; Stink; Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash; and Let It Be—were released on an indie label, Twin/Tone, out of their hometown, Minneapolis). […]