A desk, a mannered book, and a live album that’s anything but
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
Bauhaus, Run-DMC, Cocteau Twins, and other should’ve-been hits from 1983
On August 4, 1958, Billboard put Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” atop a brand-new chart it dubbed the Hot 100. Prior…
5 things to watch, listen to, and read this weekend
“In Luca Guadagnino’s sensitive, sensual Call Me By Your Name, a bright teenage boy living in the picturesque Italian…
Minnesota’s hardcore punk pioneers get their dü with podcast miniseries Dü You Remember?
In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends the previous week’s best…
Grant Hart: Uncompromising, unrepentant
Grant Hart didn’t behave as if he owed the world anything. He thought nothing of letting a decade pass between his solo…
R.I.P. Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart
Sources on social media are reporting that Grant Hart, a singer, drummer, and songwriter who helped define the sound of…
Read This: The Daily Show has stuck with its theme song for 20 years now
In July 1996, Comedy Central launched a brand new, half-hour news satire and talk show hybrid called The Daily Show, ori…
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Patch The Sky finds Bob Mould in spirited, cathartic form
Bob Mould might have been having a self-deprecating chuckle at himself when he named his 2012 record Silver Age, but…
Read This: How First Avenue put Minneapolis on the musical map
Even those rock fans who have never set one foot within the city limits of Minneapolis might recognize the legendary…
Revisiting the book that immortalized the ’80s indie punk rock scene
It was sometime around 1997 or 1998 when author and rock journalist Michael Azerrad was sitting at home watching a…
Hüsker Dü is now selling merch, and that’s all, so chill
Minneapolis punk band Hüsker Dü imploded in a fit of acrimony and long-simmering bad blood back in 1988, bad blood that…
Rachel Maddow really likes Fugazi, Bad Brains
There’s something undeniably fascinating about seeing what kind of music celebrities listen to. Occasionally, it…
“I Will Refuse”: 13 bands that could reunite, but won’t
1. The Smiths
If the passion of a fan base was enough to get a band back together, The Smiths would’ve toured every…