The Riptides represent a class of band that’s necessary to the overall health of the punk rock organism. Their peers may be numerous and quite similar at times, but they’ll never be redundant. They’re charming and likable but they’ll never make celebrities of their members. Their records will be met warmly when they arrive, but […]
The Arcade Fire’s weird and wonderful promotional site for their upcoming Neon Bible has posted a video of the band performing a cover of the Clash’s “Guns of Brixton.” Head to neonbible.com/yope.html and click “6. Guns” to check it out. The grainy monochrome video and the perspective of the camera really add to it.
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So Jordan and James of Pastepunk, in what I am sure will be looked upon as the blunder of the season, asked that I provide a guest column for their illustrious webzine. The subject was “reissue wishlist,” which both satisfies the music nerd urges for listmaking and thinly veiled outrage. In case you’ve been living […]
There’s a fair amount of rustling in the music industry bushes these past few weeks. Nothing out in the open, but definite evidence that something is moving among the foliage, hidden in the underbrush. Firstly one of the kids facing the RIAA Gestapo is very publicly fighting back, in many ways trying to simply legally […]
