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Kebs Talks Skateboarding, Inclusion, and Her Debut LP with Punitive Damage

With a raw ferocity and a merciless attack on their instruments, their debut full length, This is the Blackout, which drops on October 14th via Atomic Action Records, rages at our...

Alexa Peters

ALBUM REVIEWThe Heartfelt Nostalgia of Tony Molina's Tapes from San Mateo County

Bay Area indie artist Tony Molina has always had either foot in two worlds, which is perhaps the only obvious observation one might make about him. He maintains deep ties to the punk and hardcore scenes in which he cut his teeth, having played with bands like Healer, Caged Animal, and Bone Sickness...

Mandy Brownholtz

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When Push Comes to ShoveEtiquette in the Mosh Pit

The live music experience is a major part of music fandom, and anyone who attends concerts regularly can attest that there's an unspoken sense in the air of how to behave and interact with one another at most shows. In venues of any size, hosting any band, of any genre, there is simple etiquette...

Sarah Knoll

ONLY NOISEMarching Songs

Despite their history, politics and pop culture have an unsteady relationship. When we look specifically at music and politics, there lies an on-again, off-again affair that is as fickle as a middle school romance.

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWLow Fat Getting High @ Cake Shop

Grow your hair. Throw a beer. Break a bridge, chuck a cymbal. Hold your Jazzmaster with its busted bridge up to the foam ceiling insulation to get more feedback. Play through stacks jacked up so loud you drown the house PA. I don’t know if Brooklyn’s Low Fat Getting High read a book on how to be...

Madison Bloom

TRACK REVIEWCerebral Ballzy "Speed Wobbles"

This minute-long track goes from beginning to end with a super fast paced rhythm that jars you into action (or, at least, wanting to move).

Alexandra Freeman

VIDEO OF THE WEEK 12/2"Hidden Structures"

The Holograms' new video for "Hidden Structures," off the full-length September release Forever, shows a basic juxtaposition between silence and noise, listlessness and energy. The Swedish foursome loaf on the rooftop of a graffiti-branded shack, stand discontentedly in front of pastel high rises...

Carena Liptak