John Foster / 02 Dec 2022
From Punk to Rojava
The Adrestia Interview
Adrestia are one of the most important hardcore bands in Sweden today.(...)
Punk
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.(...)
John Foster / 25 Nov 2022
Think Different
Culture from the Slums, by Jeff Hayton
Based on the flurry of academic titles about it over the last decade, punk has become as common to college curriculums as it is to the Top 40. Why this took so long is baffling.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 19 Oct 2022
Post-Brexit Sounds
Here’s What You Could Have Won, by Kid Kapichi
When Kid Kapichi declare “You’re such a fool, Brittania” midway through New England, the opening track of their sophomore album Here’s What You Could Have Won, they aren’t just decrying the self-sabotage of Leave supporters, but also situating themselves in music history.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 06 Apr 2022
No Oriental Fantasy Here
Albat Alawi Op. 99, by El Khat
Israeli band El Khat’s new album Albat Alawi Op. 99 is the sort of record that gets better over time. Although intriguing from the outset, it proves too complicated to absorb right away.(...)
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.(...)
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”.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Jan 2022
Post-Democratic Poland
Test Systemu, by Baraka Face Junta
Baraka Face Junta’s new album Test Systemu opens with eight bars of fabulous racket. (...)