Returning the Screw

 
 It was reminded to me the other day that on April 5 it was 15 years since Kurt Cobain died. That seriously seems like a long time, long enough to re-assess what his legacy and that of Nirvana was and means.  
I’ve written about Cobain`s death before, I just don’t remember who for, but if [...]

January 2009

I’m not sure how to start this post. I originally wanted to say that Doc Dart and his iconoclastic punk band, The Crucifux, were one of the more interesting stories in the US hardcore scene in the 1980s. But they were also pretty marginal. Dart’s screechy vocals, although tame by today’s standards, were definitely an [...]

One of Canada’s best punk rock bands, Problem Children, perform “We are the Children” from their 1985 debut LP, The Future of the World is Up to Us. During their time they released three records that were simply head and shoulders above their contemporaries. It’s a shame they weren’t better known.
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It’s Sunday night and I don’t know how much energy I have to get through this. I like to think of it as an exercise in discipline, something I’ve been lacking in many areas of my life lately. But I thought I would write about a few of my favorite musical memories from the past [...]

Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady perform “Let There Be Rock” from the Drive-By Truckers album Southern Rock Opera at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 2008.
Guy in a gorilla suit aside (why is there always some asshole who does that?), this is a prime example of why the Drive By [...]

Former Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach has been away from music for way too long.  After Jets to Brazil fizzled out just as they were really finding their voice, Schwarzenbach took some time off to finish his graduate work and do some teaching at NY’s Hunter College. Now he’s resurfaced in a [...]

There is no reason for posting this, except that I’ve been listening to it and want to share. Dan Bern, live at Martyrs in Chicago on October 10, 2003. Courtesy the Internet Archive.

http://www.archive.org/details/dbern2003-10-03.