It’s tempting to compare Cork five-piece Cardinals to Irish luminaries like The Pogues, given the healthy doses of accordion that highlight the band’s Irish

No matter the context, it’s hard not to look back at 2025 as the year that orange asshole returned to the presidency and started making everything awful. We can only hope that he will eventually be made to answer for the atrocities we all know he has committed. In the meantime, music has been more important than ever as a place of solace and as …

On their first tour since splitting up in 2004, The Beta Band touched down in Boston late last month. It was hard to know what to expect from the

Playing their first gig on New Year’s Eve 1982, The Bats became part of the vanguard of New Zealand bands to bring attention to the country’s underground music scene during that decade. Their manically strummed guitars, mid-fi aesthetics, and frenetic pop hooks came to epitomize the Dunedin Sound being championed by Flying Nun Records, the band’s label home.

Some 40 years later, The Bats are …

If you’ve ever seen Dig!, the 2004 film that followed the competing trajectories of the Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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In their nearly 50 years since forming in Leeds during the punk era of the late '70s, the Mekons have created a cohesive body of work marked by a certain

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Hopscotch Fever, Artificial Go’s debut from last year, was a fetching mix of slippery guitar lines, snappy beats, and singer Angie Willcutt’s clever wordplay