Bethany Thomas
BT/She/Her. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
BT/She/Her. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The first wave of UK punk crested and shrank back, but the Mekons are still thrashing and foaming.
I spent my pandemic “vacation” taking online courses and playing with TicTok. Veteran musicians the Mekons and Yo La Tengo spent their time making music.
Deserted (Bloodshot Records). Review by James Mann.
S/T (Bloodshot Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Fanatic Voyage (Drag City). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Love & Bombs (Yep Roc). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Operators Are Standing By: The Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996 (Knitting Factory). Review by James Mann.
A highly subjective listing of 19 things from 2002 that stuck in Bob Pomeroy’s head and would not leave even when asked politely.
Bob Pomeroy pokes holes in the old maxim about rock n’ roll being a young man’s game with profiles of the Ex, Mekons, and Sonic Youth.
Stories Often Told (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.
New Deal (Bloodshot). Review by Rob Walsh.
I Have Been to Heaven and Back: Hen’s Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Unpopular Culture Vol. 1 (Quarterstick). Review by Ian Koss
Me (Quarterstick). Review by Ian Koss
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.
In this latest installment of his weekly series, Christopher Long is betrayed by his longtime GF when she swipes his copy of Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits Vol. II right out from under his nose while rummaging through a south Florida junk store.