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The Loft, adds to previous collections and includes reunion recordings (including three previously unreleased songs), a Gideon Coe session, and live recordings from their 1984 performance at The Living Room. The live recording includes songs that never were recorded in the studio. Back in ‘84, The Loft were a promising entry in the vast swarm of Creation talent, and seemed more likely than others to make it big. Trailing in the wake of The Smiths, they were right in the thick of guitar-bas...

The Anti-Queens From the first hit of the drums to the almost immediate gritty yet catchy vocal harmonies, the Anti-Queens are a band that should head to the top of your list of acts to see live when the world opens back up. Toronto has a sea of other underrated aggressive acts, but few deserve gold, silver and bronze punk-rock medals like the Anti-Queens. Check out all 11 tracks on their self-titled album in the meantime and wait impatiently for its sequel. Big Joanie Pee-wee’s Big Adventur...

Ending with Destiny Street Demos (1978-1980), filled with additional songs that didn’t make the final cut, every part of Destiny Street Complete functions as its own individual work. The songs were never a problem, and the original album worked as it was. But all these alternate universe versions are equally valid as well, whether listened to discretely or as a whole. The album is the focus of the conclusion of our chat. The occasion upon which we are having our first-ever conversation is a...

Jimi Hendrix “a pretty fair guitarist.” Some might quibble, but Biafra’s work fronting San Francisco’s Dead Kennedys politicized American punk rock. He possesses a keen, vicious satirical eye: Debut single “California Über Alles,” alone, envisioned a “zen fascist” U.S. presidency under former California Gov. Jerry Brown. His “suede/denim secret police” rounded up ordinary American citizens and shipped them to reeducation camps, where they’d “mellow out, or you will pay...

Here are some Album-a-Day projects which have been completed: (The count so far is: 388 registered albums-a-day!) Spastic Moose - Then Come The Chunks (not yet digitized) - This one was recorded right before my bandmate Sophia and I split for college in 1997. We didnt know it was an album-a-day at the time, but it counts! Tom 7 vs. Ultimate Warrior - Barmy Badger Backpackers (30 songs, 23:42) - This one was made by me and my roommate Don, and was the first conscious Album-a-Day effort. Mostly ...

Everyones itching to get out of the house, but theres something to be said for hurrying home to the one you love. Justin Wade reminds us of that joy and anticipation in "Lonely Road," a single released Thursday by his country-rock band. With a proper longing in his voice, Wade imparts the point of view of a man ending a work-related journey and eager to scurry home to his wife, imagining a scenario with "our bodies colliding/the temperatures rising."  Hmmm, so some sort of couples yoga...

Skip to main content Desperately Seeking Susan Director Susan Seidelman on Casting Madonna and Shooting the Sex and the City Pilot Pat Saperstein, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail For a certain generation of women, director Susan Seidelman’s second feature, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” is a formative text, an indelible record of New York in the ‘80s, from Madonna’s iconic hair bow to Rosanna Arquette’s spirited performance as the lead. With its cast of New York underground habitué...

There are records music critics absolutely adore and records that they totally hate. A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness is somehow both of them. What do we mean? Well, all too often, the cultural gate-keepers in contemporary America sample the tried and true and attack it for a lack of adventurousness or derring-do, calling it safe and staid in the opuses they write. But what happens when they are presented with something truly weird, something BEYOND adventurousness? Enter Stel...

“We didn’t sound like anybody else,” says singer Jon King. A new box set finds the band’s earliest albums have kept their original thrills.

Destiny Street Complete, a two-disc reimagining of Hell’s least favorite entry in his brief discography, consisting of four different versions of the album: 1. The original release; 2. Destiny Street Repaired, a 2009 reinterpretation featuring new vocals and new guitar parts from Marc Ribot, avant jazzer Bill Frisell and original Voidoid Ivan Julian; 3. Destiny Street Remixed, sonic surgery done to the original 24-track master tapes by Hell and Destiny Street Demos (1978-1980), which shoul...