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Remember the Dischord band Q And Not U? One of the guys works as an archivist at the University of Maryland’s Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, John Kelly reports at Continue reading D.C. punk archive housed at UMD
Desolation Center is a new documentary about small, underground music festivals held in the Mojave Desert in the 1980s. The fests boasted names such as Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Meat Continue reading “Desolation Center”: ’80s indie punk festival documentary
Richmond, Virginia has another four-piece band to contend with. Under Attack plays dark, brutal hardcore, as the band describes in a piece over at No Echo. The lyrics fit the Continue reading Under Attack: new band from old-school people
Back in 2005, Jaz Coleman did an interview where he expressed some of his and Killing Joke’s political views as well as some forward-thinking environmental views. He did a bit Continue reading “Tragedy & Hope”: Jaz Coleman-endorsed book available again
Following Open Culture on Twitter continues to have benefits: we hear about when an institution releases troves of material online. This time, Josh Jones wrote in November about how the Continue reading The Library of Congress releases a trove of images online
Apple announced this month that they’re breaking iTunes up into three apps in September. Over at Pitchfork, Marc Hogan answers some important questions about Apple doing away with iTunes, including, Continue reading Dying will be the death of iTunes
We like writing about the boys from Musket Hawk, as we’ve done several times before, so were game when they gave us a heads up that their new EP Upside Continue reading Musket Hawk is back again with “Upside Of Sick”
The UK band Asian Dub Foundation has released a new track, “Youth Quake Pt. 1 (Greta Speaks),” in support of climate action. In a statement, the band said, “We’ve put Continue reading Asian Dub Foundation releases new environment-themed track
We’ve written before about Roger Waters advocating for Palestinian rights and pressuring mega-artists in the music industry (see Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Radiohead to name two) to cancel Continue reading Roger Waters comments on the music industry re: Israel-Palestine
Merzbow (the act by noise artist Masami Akita) first released Venereology 25 years ago. It made quite a splash and was marketed by Relapse Records to metalheads and not just Continue reading Merzbow “Venereology” reissue out now