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Noise Complaint
Detail from the cover art for Amped shows the silhouette of a snowboarder raising his board above his head in triumph, dark against a bright blue sky.

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
A cropped image of a boy and girl holding hands on a school dance floor, both of them dressed in their best formal clothes.

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
A black-and-white portrait of MF DOOM in his silver mad villain mask.

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
A crop of the cover art for Eunoia by Envy, a mostly black photograph of the back of a person with short hair and a glowing line of light roughly following their spine

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
Comedian Conan O'Brien onstage at the 2024 Newport Folk Festival.

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
Inter Arma, most members long-haired and scruffy, lean against a concrete wall looking like a bunch of cool guys.

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.

a screenshot from Hi Fi Rush featuring a vista of a colorful futuristic city with a frozen peak and two V towers, while a young man in a yellow jacket and red scarf flies above it all

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
A black-and-white photo of the band Orchid rocking out on stage in all their middle-aged glory.

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.”

A photo of Zochi cropped in on her face. She has coiled braided hair, wide silver rimmed glasses, a black leather vest and white long sleeve shirt, and is tilting her head to while looking at the camera and pointing up with one lone finger

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.”

A crop of the cover art for the Bette Davis Eyes cover single by Katrina Woolverton and Val Garay, a black and white image of Woolverton with black curly hair looking up but with a ringed hand held up to shield her eyes

A Fresh Look Through “Bette Davis Eyes” With Katrina Woolverton & Val Garay

By Elijah Beahm • July 30th, 2024

It was awave of stylistic rebirth that prompted Garay into finally exploring “Bette Davis Eyes” for a new audience, “because I’ve been approached a zillion times to recut that song, and I always said ‘Absolutely not’ because it’s just too iconic.”

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