If this lineup for the Bad Lovers’ single release party was “all like 2014,” as Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs said near the start of her solo opening set, well … take me back? Simpler[…]
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have given us the Song of Anti-Summer. Now, hearts like mine need the comeback to be completed
For an ardent-but-realistic Yeah Yeah Yeahs appreciator, it’s a little surprising how astoundingly this comeback has gone — so far. Nearly a decade after one of the best bands of the 2000s left us with a barely-worth-any-trouble[…]
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Shows: Vandoliers @ 3Ten ACL Live
Pretty much as soon as Vandoliers began playing Thursday night, I thought about when the last time was that I’d heard anything that could be described as “cowpunk,” or even heard the term. Even in[…]
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A short roundup of a music search to beat the summertime blues: The Deer, Primo the Alien, Party Van
Someone needs to cover “Summertime Blues.” That’s a thought that’s been kicking around in my head for a few weeks now. Cover the Eddie Cochran classic and change the lyrics to match the moment —[…]
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Shows: Y’all Out Boy’s Far Out party makes pop-punk feel like the perfect genre it definitely isn’t
If I wanted to detail my complicated personal relationship with pop-punk, I could probably go on for awhile. I might even bore the ever-loving crap out of you in the process. For concision — because I really[…]
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Album review: A. Sinclair, South Padre
The last 30 seconds or so of “Lean Into It,” the opening offering on A. Sinclair’s new album, are an awakening, gravel-coated cannon shot of noise-rock tacked onto a standard-issue, slow-burn acoustic tune. It emerges[…]
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