There is something about Fontaines D.C. and their kind of brutalist version of punk rock that feels very apropos for this age. Even the ironic album title, A Hero's Death
Do I know what this Coriky business is all about? Like why that name? Is it some anagram of Fugazi? Obviously not. But the band itself feels like a natural 2020 version
Cuss. It's a great word. One that I didn't realize not everyone used until I ended up going to college on the East Coast. They say "curse." Which, to me, is weird. It's
I admittedly had no familiarity with The Bronx back in 2003 when this album came out. Though they were one of those bands whose name was bandied about the hallways of
Goth rock was an underrated corner of the 80s rock world. Especially for angry teenagers living during that time. Not the murky swirling stuff, but the music that came
There hasn't been a band with a name as appropriate for the times we're currently living in than Stay Inside in quite a while. I mean, I suppose if there was a band called
These Gen Z kids don't really appreciate what hip hop is supposed to be. Says the white-guy Gen Xer. But, seriously, there's an art to it that seems to be lost in this
I love the fact that there's a dude named Jeff Rosenstock from Long Island who started his musical career making ska music now making some of my favorite type of punk
There was a time when Grandaddy was labeled "the American Radiohead." The comparison never sat well with me, only because Radiohead are a bunch of snobbish whatevers who
The irony of Lost in the Country's first song being titled "Rock & Roll" is certainly not lost on me. Because it is discernibly not rock & roll. Despite rising form the
Hamilton Leithauser seemingly lives in a different era than the rest of the musical universe. And while his tunes feel timeless, they also don't belong to 2020. It could
The Strokes are a band that debuted in 2001 and quickly rose to international fame. But here in 2020 are a group of 40-year-old men putting out albums that barely make a
From the ashes of At the Drive-In came Sparta. An odd moniker for a band from El Paso. I figured Alamo would be more apt, but no need to be retro controversial, I suppose