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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, 40 years later.

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...