Oliver Sheppard

Culture

Oliver Sheppard / 29 Jul 2024

Sounds From the Margins

Weird Music That Goes On Forever, by Bob Suren

Bob Suren has done almost everything there is to do in the punk rock world.(...)

Culture

Oliver Sheppard / 11 Oct 2023

When the Kids Were United

Glenn E. Friedman’s Just a Minor Threat

Glenn E. Friedman has knocked it out of the park once again with Just a Minor Threat, a 148-page photo book focused on DC punk pioneers Minor Threat.(...)

Culture

Oliver Sheppard / 28 Nov 2022

Unfinished Business

A Brief Moment in the Sun, by Soulside

That the first song on Soulside's new LP ends with a sample from a 1952 American civil defence film Duck and Cover, about a nuclear apocalypse, says it all.(...)

Interviews

Oliver Sheppard / 16 Feb 2022

The Ian MacKaye Interview

Steady Diet of Nothing at Thirty

In 1991, Fugazi released Steady Diet of Nothing, their sophomore full-length. Coming on the heels of the brilliant Repeater LP, Steady Diet, to some, felt anticlimactic.(...)

Culture

Oliver Sheppard / 02 Feb 2022

Reappraising Steady Diet of Nothing

The 30th Anniversary of Fugazi’s Most Underrated LP

"Though the album is a bit of a 'sleeper’ in many people’s eyes (ears?)," Ian MacKaye recently wrote to me, "the songs on that album were probably played by us live more than the others over the years”.(...)

5 articles

Sounds From the Margins

When the Kids Were United

Unfinished Business

The Ian MacKaye Interview

Reappraising Steady Diet of Nothing

Europe and Beyond