By Ben Sailer It’s often tough to discern what exactly makes certain records stand out in a band’s discography. Sometimes it’s a matter of…
The lasting legacy of American Football’s 1999 debut album is the definition of an unlikely story. Considering the Urbana, Illinois-based band (originally comprised of…
Interview with guitarist Will Killingsworth | By Ben Sailer Whether you were stockpiling canned food in preparation for Y2K or dancing your ass off to…
Interview with vocalist/guitarist Stephen Brodsky and guitarist Adam McGrath | By Ben Sailer Rarely have a simple guitar and a hummed melody sounded as…
Interview with vocalist/guitarist Matt Pryor | By Ben Sailer The Get Up Kids have never been content to try the same thing twice. From…
Whether you were stockpiling canned food in preparation for Y2K or dancing your ass off to Prince, 1999 was a hell of a year.…
There’s a long-running paradox in punk—speaking in the broadest possible sense of the word—wherein the genre is obsessed with both breaking and conforming to…
With right-wing authoritarianism on the rise, unchecked climate change threatening to swallow humanity whole, the continued existence of rampant gender inequality, and economic turmoil…
Interview with Dave Collis and Mercedes Webb | By Ben Sailer Slow Mass set high expectations with their 2016 EP, Treasure Pains, delivering a sampling…
Interview with Tim Barry | By Ben Sailer Some musicians would have an ego if they had Tim Barry’s legacy. With nearly three decades…