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Apache Dropout’s Seth Mahen and Sonny Alexandre on “Heavy Window”
Indiana garage trio Apache Dropout just released their latest album, Heavy Window, via Magnetic South Recordings this Tuesday. The album’s much darker than their last record, Bubblegum Graveyard which...
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Podcast #129, “Miguel Chen of Teenage Bottlerocket”
It's another installment of "special guest DJ" on Sunglasses After Dark. This go-round, we have Miguel Chen, bassist for Teenage Bottlerocket. The pop-punk road warriors' seventh album, Tales From...
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Various Artists, “Crazy Al’s Indiana Punk and New Wave 76-83″ cassette
My review of Crazy Al's Indiana Punk & New Wave '76 - '83 on Twitter consisted mainly of "BUY IT" repeated a dozen times, and I stand by that. Hell, even if the majority of the bands and songs...
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Lawrence Field Day Fest 2015, Night Two
My first band of the second night was a muscular rock 'n' roll quartet. It looks like I'm going for a theme, huh? Actually, Kansas City's Admiral of the Red would pair nicely with the Vedettes. The KC...
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Lawrence Field Day Fest 2015, Night Three
The third and final night of 2015's Lawrence Field Day Fest kicked off hard. It was pushed back half an hour, but Eyes of Iolite wasted no time in getting things ripping. "The Thing" kicked it off,...
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Rock Star Journalist » punkCelebrity Art Party with Jon Hunter
Celebrity Art Party is a semi-occurring feature, wherein the artists we enjoy interpret their favorite song. This installment features one of our favorite artists, and a long-ago former co-worker of...
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Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish at the Granada
Sorry State Records recently launched their first single series, dedicated to releasing bands from North Carolina, and the first two installments are now out. The singles come in identical sleeves,...
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Pushin’ It 2 The Limit, “self-titled” cassette
When I reviewed Ex Friends' Rules For Making Up Words last year, I mentioned that I really liked Audrey Crash's vocals, but was "kind of turned off by Joel Tannenbaum‘s delivery>' Well, here's the...
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Windian Records’ Subscription Series Number 3 is bonkers cool
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Louder, “self-titled” LP
The self-titled LP from Japan's Louder would be a lot better if it could decide what it wanted to be. Half the cuts are big sugar-metal jams, like album opener "Idiot Mind." Hearing them, one can only...
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Rock Star Journalist » punkLP Review: Eureka California’s “Versus”
Eureka Califonia is one of those myriad band names that’s irritating as hell to search for online, but the difficulty’s kind of the point. This is a band you want people to have to earn the discovery...
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Pup at the Granada: photo gallery
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Brad Norman talks about his doc, The Outhouse The Film, which plays Liberty...
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Bookshelf: Teenage Bottlerocket’s Miguel Chen Explains Yoga and Punk Rock in...
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Photos: Turnstile, Friday night at the Bottleneck
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Photos: AJJ, Kimya Dawson, Laura Stevenson, and Shellshag at the Granada
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Watch the video for Company Retreat’s Weekend at Bernie’s-style ‘Analysis...
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Rico Dejoie is bringing three nights of punk rock festivities to KC with this...
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Hepcat had the Madrid doing the ska jump at the Madrid last night (photos)
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The Whiffs return with a fresh bouquet of basement power-pop
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