punk Archive
02 Feb 2017
Album Mini-review: Mike Watt — “Ring Spiel” Tour ’95
File next to: Meat Puppets, Mission of Burma, Sugar Gravelly-voiced bassist Watt first made his name as the bassist in The Minutemen, and after that group’s end in the wake […]
16 Jan 2017
The Supersuckers: F-bombs and Devil Horns
Michael Jackson anointed himself King of Pop, so it’s no surprise that other artists would engage in similar hubris. After touring and recording for a few years, the Supersuckers branded […]
03 Jan 2017
Album Mini-review: Sshh — Issues
File next to: The Pretenders, Transvision Vamp Zak Starkey has already had a fascinating career. The son of Ringo Starr, Zak was given drum lessons by “uncle” Keith Moon, made […]
08 Dec 2016
Album Mini-review: Gang of Four — Live … in the Moment
File next to: Wire, Mission of Burma This Leeds group is often cited as a punk pioneer; with its original lineup, the Leeds, England quartet explored and pushed beyond the […]
26 Oct 2016
Gang of Four: The Gang’s Still Here
Rising out of the tail-end of the late 1970s Great Britain music scene (thus earning the “postpunk” label), Gang of Four combined dub reggae and punk, with funk undercurrents. The […]
20 Sep 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for September 2016, Part 2
Five more quick reviews, presented in random order. The Bangles – Ladies and Gentlemen … the Bangles! This Los Angeles group never got the serious recognition they deserved. Chalk it […]
30 Aug 2016
Album Review: The Scientists — A Place Called Bad
For American music consumers in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Australia may as well have been in another galaxy as on the other side of the globe; in those […]
05 Feb 2016
Album Review: The Scenics — In the Summer
In early 2013 I reviewed Dead Man Walks Down Bayview, a then-new album from Toronto-based band The Scenics. In that review, I made clear both my nearly nonexistent knowledge of […]
26 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Reissues
Today’s collection of hundred-word reviews focuses on recent reissues of note. Uriah Heep – Totally Driven I’m not going to try to tell you that the turn of the 21st […]
18 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Iggy Pop — Psychophonic Medicine
File next to: New York Dolls, The Stooges If you made a list of the most unsentimental rock acts, Iggy Pop would be near the top of the list. Right? […]