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Freakout Festival celebrates a decade of mad audio-visual alchemy.

Hammered Hulls, the band made up of Alec MacKaye (Untouchables, Reignition Records), Mark Cisneros (The Make Up, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds), Mary Timony (Helium, Wild Flag, Ex Hex), and Chris Wilson, have announced that they will be releasing their debut LP. It is called Careening and wi...

Often overlooked by punk history’s gatekeepers, Lisa Fancher’s venerable Frontier Records label is celebrating 40 years of important punk rock releases. Without her there to release some of the first music by the Adolescents, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Black Randy, Red Kross, Suicidal Tendencies and so many more, the Los Angeles punk scene would have been far less righteous. Anthony Mostrom caught up with Lisa Fancher, still releasing new material, and reissuing the best of the old stuff, ...

Plus: KEXP and the Opera picked new leaders! Supernova turns 1! And Summer at SAM is back!

Sadly, this week, Howie Pyro passed away. He was 61 and died from covid complications following a liver transplant. Pyro formed The Blessed near the beginning of NYC punk rock. He then formed the long running D-Generation. He also played with Danzig, Johnny Thunders, Rancid, Joey Ramone, the Misfit...

A new podcast explores the Latinx roots of punk rock. The first episode of ‘Punk in Translation: Latinx Origins’ is available now.

As we head into the first week of test broadcasting at the new Collingwood Yards station, we take a fond look back at some of the amazing times we've had at number 47 Easey Street.Legend has it, way back when, PBS had 13 weeks to build new studios. Materials were largely donated and labour was mostly volunteered. In this short window of time, broadcasting commenced on November

Weathered by life’s detours and disappointments, inspired by musical storytellers Kris Kristoffers Mark your calendars… Thursday, Dec. 2 Blurring the line between organic instrumentation and...

Bloodstains , and more! A full description of its contents is just below. Remember, we only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 180-page issues! And since this issue #88 is being mailed to subscribers and those who pre-order it by itself, but will mostly be unavailable at some of the normal stores that carry us that are closed because of the pandemic, it is imperative if you want a copy that you order it now! And of course, in those s...

Steve Richards/Shutterstock (L-R) Anita Lane and Blixa Bargeld in concert at the Grand on Nov. 17, 1993 in London, England. Anita Lane, a beloved Australian singer-songwriter who was a member of The Birthday Party and Nick Caves Bad Seeds, as well as solo singer, has died at 61. At press time no further information was available about the cause of death or when Lane passed, but her former bandmate Cave confirmed the news in a lengthy post in which he called her "the smartest and most talented...