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In the news today: The Nearly Deads, The Northern Light, Eitan Noyze, Hornography, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, MXPX, From a Second Story Window, Jason Isbell, Fast Car, Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs, Best covers, Nick Cave, Tupac Shakur, Michael McDonald, DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man, Ben Lee, Georgia Man, The Replacements, Cyndi Lauper, Knife Bride, Yungblud, Lil Uzi Vert
Fat Wreck Chords released some of the most exciting punk tracks of the 1990’s. See how the label came to be, flew high, and now struggles as a relic of punk rock and roll history.
Sole Kitchen (In Music We Trust). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Avenge Your City (Hairball 8). Review by Jen Cray.
Sudden Departure Vultures (Uprising). Review by Jen Cray.
Let It Happen (Deluxe Edition) (Tooth and Nail). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Dynamite Boy (Fearless). Review by Addam Donnelly.
Original Soundtrack (Hollywood). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Green Day,1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours,Lookout Records,Andrew Ellis
Blink 182,S/T,Geffen,Andrew Ellis
1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Lookout!). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Blink 182 (Geffen). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Before Everything & After (A&M). Review by Stein Haukland.
Two Lefts Don’t Make A Right (Gotee Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
5 (Tooth & Nail). Review by Stein Haukland.
Brian Kruger takes a look at the first volume of The Show, an LA-based TV series featuring performances by H2O, No Use For a Name, Kill Your Idols, Flogging Molly, Avail, Less Than Jake, 7 Seconds, Madcap, The Ataris, MXPX, and AFI.
Past Remains (Tooth & Nail). Review by Brian Kruger.
Warped Tour highlights from the Cental Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, FL on July 30, 2000, including Unwritten Law, Suicide Machines, Snapcase, MxPx, and NOFX. Event review and photos by Jen Lato.
MxPx has come a long way from their (absolutely dreadful) 1996 CD,
At the Show (Tooth and Nail). Review by Patrick Rafter
J-Horror classic Dark Water (2002) makes the skin crawl with an unease that lasts long after the film is over. Phil Bailey reviews the new Arrow Video release.
John Wayne’s final movie sees the cowboy actor go out on a high note, in The Shootist, one of his best performances.
Get to the theater tonight for Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All, Alexandria Bombach’s latest documentary, one night only!
Speedfossil’s in love with a girl on the internet, on “IRL” from Room With A VU, Vol.1.
Rad Brown and Buffalo Stille (Nappy Roots) premiere their second single from forthcoming LP Upper Crust Confections, “Only Love,” today at Ink 19.
Ben Folds adds new dates to his Paper Airplane Request Tour.
HEALTH continue their mission to make everyone love each other, bringing their RAT-BASED WARFARE TOUR to the Mile High City, where Steven Cruse gets to be a very lucky middle-aged industrial fanboy.