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THINE RETAIL SIMPS: "The Best Parts of Recording Were These Long Jams Where We Would Just Let the Tape Roll and See What Happened"
You know, just when I was getting bored with all the trust fund punks ripping off Mark Winter for the fifth year in a row, THINE RETAIL...

Joe Massaro
Oct 4, 2024


Kate Bollinger: "I Hadn't Been to Los Angeles Before 2021 and I Met So Many People That Totally Changed My Life and My Perspective"
Over the course of the last couple years, the Charlottesville-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger has mastered her...

Joe Massaro
Oct 2, 2024


Soup Activists: "While I Do Miss Fronting a High Energy Band, I Am Happy and Excited With What I'm Doing Now"
Considered to be one of the primary architects of today's contemporary punk landscape, the mercurial St. Louis-based artist Martin Meyer...

Joe Massaro
Sep 26, 2024


Pleasant Mob: "Chicago Is Like One Big Musical Family"
Chicago's most modest popsters Pleasant Mob craft songs that feel like they may have always been there for you, existing in the ether and...

Joe Massaro
Sep 23, 2024


Class: "Honestly I Don't Think We Anticipated Having Another LP Out Almost a Year to the Day From Our Last Release"
Too unseriously pop-minded for the punks and too punky for the power poppers, Tucson rockers Class seem to be on their own island, but...

Joe Massaro
Sep 17, 2024


The Submissives: "Always Play the Long Game and Choose Honest Artistic Expression Over Fame and Money. Getting Reviewed and Talked About Is Fleeting and Meaningless"
Montreal singer-songwriter Deb Edison has been an enigmatic creative spirit since taking upon a solitary voyage under the moniker The...

Joe Massaro
Sep 5, 2024


The Smashing Times: "This Record Was Made To Fulfill My Artistic Vision and Unsurprisingly, Since the Intent Was Honest, It's the Best Record I've Made"
Baltimore freakbeat popsters The Smashing Times weave in another charmingly offbeat psychedelic treat on "Ben Jimeny the Green Grocer,"...

Joe Massaro
Sep 4, 2024


Straight Arrows: "It's Better To Keep Moving Forward Than Try To Breathe Life Into Some Corpses of the Past"
Earlier this month, Sydney budget rock stalwarts Straight Arrows released their long-awaited fourth LP Surface World , a blistering pure...

Joe Massaro
Aug 26, 2024


New Math: "I Think We Just Were Like Lots of Kids. You Just Tried to Mimic Your Favorite Band at the Time, or Your Favorite Sort of Moment in Music"
By the time the 1980s struck, New Math was way out there. After cementing an underground rock scene at the now-extinct club Scorgie's in...

Joe Massaro
Aug 22, 2024


Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"
Melbourne's latest rock 'n' roll supergroup Loose Lips deliver earworm hooks, tough male-female vocals, and anthemic guitar riffs that...

Joe Massaro
Aug 15, 2024


Josephine Network: "I Have a Vivid Memory of My Dad Playing Me a 45 of 'Great Balls of Fire' by Jerry Lee Lewis and It Totally Freaked Me Out. I Have Been a Rock N Roll Victim Ever Since"
New York's power pop chanteuse Josephine Network just shared "Fat Doll" a glammy, campy, and irresistibly catchy pop number that's also a...

Joe Massaro
Aug 13, 2024


Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"
Following up several singles and a "live" album to help sustain the anticipation over the years, New York City power pop stalwart Brower...

Joe Massaro
Aug 9, 2024
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