Punk in the Classroom: Question Everything
Punk’s “question everything” attitude has always been suited to education, despite the forces that seek to contain its rabble-rousing trouble-making from the classroom.
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Subversive Threads: How Punk Inspired the Craftivist Movement
Craftivism’s core values of autonomy, subversion, political consciousness, and subcultural community make it yet another example of punk’s enduring influence.
Post-Punk: The Cerebral Genre
The punk spirit would likely have died but for the theoretical questions post-punk forced bands into answering.
A Cappella Punk: What’s Happening to Alternative Comedy in the US?
The DIY strategies and indie allegiances of recent alternative comedians reveal the spirit of punk to be alive and kicking beyond the music world.
Richard X. Heyman: Incognito
Heyman's catchy guitar lines and pleasant vocals create an agreeable sound without ever getting buried under their own weight.
Chook Race: Around the House
Australian bedroom-pop outfit Chook Race put together a vibrant and hopeful breakthrough record.
Pile: You’re Better Than This
Pile finally return to the studio, foaming at the mouth, after last year's excellent "Special Snowflakes" single.
Grooms: Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair
Although Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair has a fairly distinct color scheme, it deviates enough to resist the pastel end of the indie rock rainbow.
Elephant Micah: Where in Our Woods
Another inward-looking, yet inviting collection from Joseph O'Connell’s idiosyncratic DIY project Elephant Micah. Fans of introspective, late-night lo-fi should seek this out.
Support DIY Venues With Air Balloon Tapes: Compilation 2
With DIY venues falling like dominoes across Brooklyn, showing support for off the beaten path gig spaces has become a worthier act than ever.
Priests: Bodies and Control and Money and Power EP
The newest EP from these DC punks is heavy on rage and passion, but the notes they hit are all too familiar.