Tom Waits, Movie Star By Joel Blackledge • December 5th, 2024 Waits himself cheerfully admits that his whole persona is an act.
Noise Complaint How The Get Up Kids and an Xbox Demo Disc Changed My Life By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2024 One afternoon when I had nothing else to do, I popped in a sampler of the snowboarding game Amped, and discovered a couple tracks from The Get Up Kids.
Noise Complaint Marilyn Manson, Middle School Dances, and Small Town Fear By Ben Sailer • October 30th, 2024 I can’t remember if I left and went home after hearing the rules of the game, but I do remember refusing to play, without saying exactly why I didn’t want to join in.
Noah's Beat Box The Anniversary By Noah Springer • October 15th, 2024 What am I, a 38-year-old with a kid and a full-time job to do, listen to every new artist named Toilet Monster or Fuck Gorilla until I find the one that bangs?
Beyond Structures Envy’s Sound Continues to Swell and Swoon on Eunoia By Khee Hoon Chan • October 11th, 2024 Envy’s Eunoia is the pinnacle of the band’s sound all over again.
Rookie of the Year The Newport Folk Festival Has a New Friend By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2024 Conan O’Brien isn’t Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but he did the Newport Folk Festival proud.
Noise Complaint Exploring New Heaven with Inter Arma By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2024 Richmond-based metal five-piece Inter Arma have long charted their own path between metal sub-genres. On their sixth record New Heaven, they may have transcended simple categorization altogether, and are much more interesting as a result.
Performing Through Failure to Hit that Hi-Fi Rush By Fred Banks • August 28th, 2024 There is a performance to games, from reaching an in-game objective, or literally a developer-created achievement as an extra bonus for a particular feat or choice in a game.
Casting Deep Meteo Orchid in Defiant Embrace of Age By Levi Rubeck • August 14th, 2024 The members of Orchid got together, found the weight of the years less cumbersome than they imagined, and in the most pure punk spirit of all said, “Fuck it.”
How an African Princess Became a Singer of a Queer-Affirming God By Elijah Beahm • August 7th, 2024 “Whenever I’m writing a song, whenever I’m singing a song, I make sure that I’m coming from a place of being free, just being free. I let my emotions speak through my song.”
