Pittsburgh’s The Gotobeds are offering their two cents on a vintage blast of punk energy — and it is mighty good. Dubbed Definitely Not a Red Kross EP, the new…
Black Flag
Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
This record begins with the uncontrolled wailing of guitar feedback and squalor, later joined by the gasps of a dying piano. And that’s a good place to start. Because, then,…
You know the rest of the Twenty-Teens will be a hard slog when even the quality of our rebellion is mediocre. Look at the so-called “rebels” in today’s pop culture…
Kelly Stitzel takes a look at Don Letts’s excellent 2005 documentary, Punk: Attitude, recently rereleased on DVD.
By the mid 1980s, many of hardcore’s old guard were outgrowing their three chord attack. A lot of bands found a new identity in the commercially viable crossover of thrash…