Rodeo Boys’ Queer Blue-Collar Rock Is Essential Listening
If you’re looking for an excellent rock record to blast during summer that might provoke profound thoughts as the night progresses, Rodeo Boys have you covered
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Rodeo Boys Discuss Rural Queer Blue Collar Life and ‘Junior’
Rodeo Boys show “the quiet rebellion of a queer, blue-collar heart”. Junior mixes revenge anthems and tales of queer love and identity.
Viagra Boys Discover Tenderness in the Grotesque
Viagra Boys’ self-titled album is a gleefully unhinged feat of epic silliness—just as musically brilliant as it is absurd, as willfully brutal as it is carefully constructed.
Cult Therapy’s Powerful Album Is an Essential Debut
Cult Therapy seamlessly blend heavy alternative rock with a pointed critique of religious hypocrisy in a raging song cycle that deserves attention.
The Pogues’ New Collection Highlights Their Important Legacy
The Pogues always painted portraits of shaggy underdogs who were broke but not broken, embattled but still very much in the battle to survive, sympathetic if surly.
Melodic Hardcore’s Stunning Mid-2020s Resurgence
Hardcore has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity since 2020. Subsequently, the past two years have brought a revived interest in melodic hardcore.
Myanmar Hardcore Rebels Cacerolazo Amp Up the Volume for Revolution
Born out of the chaos of post-coup Myanmar, Burmese punk collective Cacerolazo’s debut LP rails against the brute forces of injustice and dictatorship.
Dead Pioneers Are Punk Rock’s New Conscience
American punk rock needs a bold new punk ethos. Native Gregg Deal and Dead Pioneers are punk rock’s new conscience.
Cataloging Punk Permutations
Iain Ellis’ engaging Punk Beyond the Music’ goes beyond the usual permutations of punk into the fascinating cultural arenas of comedy, education, and sports.
Haunted Horses’ ‘Dweller’ Is an Intriguing Heavy Album
Haunted Horses get further under your skin, infecting and infesting you with their bleary, spectral plague of madness and maybe a slight spark of hope.
Lambrini Girls’ “God’s Country” Rejects PJ Harvey’s Melancholic England
Unlike PJ Harvey’s sad voice singing about the polluted Thames and England, for the Lambrini Girls, there is no mythic past when these symbols were great.
Hüsker Dü’s ‘New Day Rising’ Still Sparkles at 40
Hüsker Dü’s New Day Rising provided equal parts muscular intensity and melody as the band laid the groundwork for the future of alternative music.