Apr 03, 2020
By Matthew Berlyant
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Think back, if you can, to the mid-’90s. MTV was still playing music and alternative music was as popular as it ever would be, although there were signs of its declining commercial fortunes already present. More
Apr 03, 2020
By Brad Walton
It feels so good to be so bad. More
Mar 18, 2020
By Steve King
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So, here we are, in the spring of an election year, with a collapsing stock market, imminent recession, and a pandemic superflu threatening to bring down all of civil society. The primaries aren’t over, but Democrats have their likely nominee. More
Mar 12, 2020
By Steve King
There’s only one feeling in politics that’s better than being right: It’s being surprised. More than a dozen primaries in, Joe Biden’s numbers are nothing to sneeze at, or cough at, or look at. He beat Bernie Sanders’ brains out on Super Tuesday and then kept doing it across the Midwest. Gray matter all over the plains. March is the month that decides primaries, and this one is over. It’s Biden. More
Mar 06, 2020
By Frank Valish
Reissued on beautiful dark purple vinyl from Real Gone Music, Bobby Patterson’s It’s Just a Matter of Time remains a soul classic to this day. More
Feb 25, 2020
By Steve King
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Liberals worry. They worry about real things. Conservatives worry about fake things. Democrats worry so Republicans don't have to; that's the way things work. At least until recently, the fundamentals of our democratic schism were strong. More
Feb 24, 2020
By Austin Trunick
We take a look at the crunchy new Euro, Crown of Emara, from publisher Pegasus Spiele. More
Feb 14, 2020
By Elizabeth Sankey
Keeping in mind that Summer Camp's new album is entitled Romantic Comedy, is a companion piece to a documentary of the same name directed by the band's Elizabeth Sankey, and is out on Valentine's Day, we asked Sankey to put together a romantic comedy-themed list and she focused on her favorite musical moments from romantic comedies, scenes where characters sing (not always well). More
Feb 10, 2020
By Frank Valish
Velvert Turner, a Jimi Hendrix protégé, released one album in the early '70s. Org Music's reissue proves that this lost classic is more than simple homage. More
Jan 21, 2020
By Austin Trunick
Our fiftieth board games column looks at Mini Rails, from Tasty Minstrel Games, and pairs it with an hour's worth of Johnny Cash train tracks. More
