While on the surface a stopgap between Let It Bloom and whatever’s arriving this September, this live album will prove remarkably important to the Black Lips when their story’s finally written. It’s the bridge between the Atlanta band’s status as a critically acclaimed underground act and whatever spectacular success or failure awaits them. Vice may […]
This is a frustrating album. Oh it sounds wonderful, but I can’t get past the bewildering song choices on the punk godmother’s cover project. The songs Smith interprets here aren’t only classic — they’re iconic. These are songs that, for the most part, I wouldn’t want my favorite bands to ever think of covering. I […]
I absolutely love stories like this, when something from current affairs headlines has some tertiary facet that Punknews can jump on. I wasn’t even paying attention to the fact that someone leaked the government’s climate change plan. The news that there was a leak at all was overshadowed by the fact that the plan’s […]
I realize now that I’ve created my own arch-nemesis. He’s a composite of who I imagine were the past owners of my house. My father knows him as “that guy,” “that ass” or some similar reference. He’s 50 years of questionable workmanship and less than perfect yard care personified. Since he’s managed to find so […]
