It’s been said before in these virtual pages, but we are living in an age where everything old is new again. Indeed, it’s telling that in 2015, reissues and downloads of old music outsold new music for the first time since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. I haven’t seen any stats, but I wouldn’t be surprised if reunited acts have bested new acts …
It’s a fact of growing older that the bands you loved as a kid are probably not going to age gracefully. Their once skinny leather-clad bodies
When 2016 finally comes to an end, it will forever be remembered as a year marred by the deaths of some of our greatest artists. Alan Vega, Bernie Worrell
Throughout his career, the always-flamboyant Adam Ant has tried out a number of styles—both with his music and fashion choices. Collecting each and every
Though they existed as a band for only five short years, The Smiths created a body of work that continues to endure some 30 years later. In the span of just
As the leader of the Dum Dum Girls (under the succinct nom de plume of Dee Dee), Kristin Gundred created a trio of records
As we’ve discussed previously in greater detail, when the
New Musical Express released its
C86 cassette in 1986, no one had any idea of the impact the
Perhaps you’ve heard that this year is the 40th anniversary of punk and about the events being staged to mark the occasion. With history never moving
Although seemingly lying dormant for most of the past couple of decades, Amphetamine Reptile Records—the Minneapolis-based label
