Just because you’re campaigning in the U.S.A. doesn’t mean you’re entitled to use “Born in the U.S.A.” Regardless of patriotism, artists often object to politicians Continue Reading
When Punk Took on the National Front It Screamed, 'White Riot'!
While it’s easy to get caught up in debates about aesthetic purity when it comes to punk music, it’s important to remember that, in the Continue Reading
Iller Instinct: An Interview with Hip-Hop Artists Ill Scholars
The two first met at a Roots show and in no time did they begin exchanging beats and rhymes. MC Mattic and producer Johnny Madwreck Continue Reading
Moira Smiley and VOCO's "The Call" Says Stay Strong in Shared Humanity (premiere)
Solemnity rings through the breathtakingly wordless introduction to “The Call”, the new a cappella single taken from Moira Smiley and VOCO’s upcoming album In Our Continue Reading
'The Great Dismal' Is Nothing's Sharpest and Most Consistent album
That Nothing’s new album would be called The Great Dismal is probably the least surprising thing that has happened all year. The title seems almost Continue Reading
Adulkt Life Feature Huggy Bear Vocalist on 'Book of Curses'
Adulkt Life are a new punk band helmed by music veterans. Vocalist Chris Rowley fulfilled that same role in the early 1990s riot grrl act Continue Reading
Old School Politicking Gets Powerful Punk Backing on Dead End America's 'Crush the Machine'
A standard-issue modern music gripe, subject of a ton of clickbait articles, is, “why are there no protest songs anymore?” The answers vary, but the Continue Reading
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras (excerpt)
Excerpted from When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold (footnotes omitted). Copyright 2020 by the Board of Continue Reading
The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 40-21
40. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning [Saddle Creek] Released in 2005 alongside the stylistically opposed Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, I’m Wide Awake, Continue Reading