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Bad Religion has been a punk band since, roughly, the beginning of existence. In Gnostic religions when the Monad, the mind of God, first became...

Black Flag is my favorite band ever. In their sound, their work ethic, and their attitude towards the outside world they have embodied everything...

Devonté Hynes is an octopus. I mean this kindly. I mean it in the sense that the London-born, New York-based artist has created more in his 27...

In my (relatively) short lifetime of cultural awareness, I've witnessed a (relatively) massive evolution of pop music. My first taste of true love...

Most people don’t know this about me, but I like to listen to some pretty diverse shit when it comes to music. Being in two heavy bands, most fans...

Sometime after Green Day released the wildly successful American Idiot in 2004, they graduated into what I call the "give no fucks" category...

Is there a genre of music more beautiful and widely detested than pop-punk? Sentimental, sappy and often sexist, pop-punk is power-pop for...

I love garage rock the same way I like all of my music: If there is an amazing song or the band is doing something special, then I'm in. In the...

All the music I have ever heard from Omar Souleyman delivers on the same fantastic promise: to hypnotize the listener with a non-stop, trance...

Listening to someone gush about something is as dreadful as hearing someone else's dreams or listening to a parent drone on about the excellence of...

When I Googled “Lil Ugly Mane Interview” the first thing that came up was a q&a that the Virginia producer and rapper did in a New York publication...

Taste is weird and writing about music is so nuts. It's kind of the worst. We are all disconnected bubbles of perception with only cloudy...