Yeah, yeah, putting the final nail in the coffin of 2017 is a little premature, seeing as there’s still more than 30 days left in the year. But, I’m the…
Steve Albini
STNNNG simply has outdone itself with Veterans of Pleasure, its fifth full-length record, out tomorrow on vinyl and digital platforms via Modern Radio Records. The 11-song collection, the first from…
Ladies and gentlemen, STNNNG has reentered the building. After four years of waiting and much, much anticipation, Minnesota’s greatest post-punk band is back with a new record, Veterans of Pleasure….
Indie rock renaissance man Tobin Sprout returns with a new album. Popdose had a chat with the prolific creator.
I can rarely predict where a column about music is going to raise my ire next. I’ve all-but stopped reading Lefsetz recently in the name of self-preservation, and on those…
Let’s try, okay, to be objective for a moment. STNNNG, a Minneapolis art-punk quintet with its heart on its sleeve and a roar in its throat, is the best thing…
Steve Albini once infamously offered up ”ten fucking stars” in Melody Maker to the swansong LP of a then-unknown Louisville quartet named Slint. Twenty three long years later, much has…
It’s hard to write about Nonagon, a Chicago-rooted band whose latest pocket full of cuts and volts is a 12-inch EP titled The Last Hydronaut, without using words like blistering…
Nirvana’s In Utero always has been ripe with context. Upon release in 1993, it wasn’t just the group’s third full-length record proper; it was arguably a middle-finger to the industry…
Rob Smith’s Media 6ix: Eddie Van Halen, Gay Marriage, Avengers, etc.
My first impression of Kurt Cobain, even before I knew anything about him, was that he was the kid in school who was painfully quiet, but whose mind was silently…
Pixies – Doolittle (1989, 4AD) purchase this album (Amazon) To a certain extent, Doolittle Á¢€” the PixiesÁ¢€â„¢ most accessible (and best-selling) album Á¢€” is all about tension. The tension of…
The Beginning Mike Zelenko (drummer): “I met Jim through an advertisement in the Illinois Entertainer (a local monthly music magazine) right out of high school. He called me a couple…