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The Shattered Mind Machine and Jim Lomonaco Reviewed
February 8, 2025
The Shattered Mind Machine – Clean Teeth
People are still shocked by anger, and acts influenced by it nearly always get a response. That’s, perhaps, why so many talk show hosts fake anger on television every night. They know it will get a rise out of the audiences…
Top 10 Songs by Elvis Costello: On the Beat!
February 8, 2025
Elvis Costello was, for a long time, a sophisticated musician living in incognito. He was supposed to be a punk rocker, after all. And while there’s plenty of anger captured in most of his early songs, Costello’s ability as a songwriter and arranger far exceeded…
Top 10 Songs by Misfits: Legacy of Brutality
January 30, 2025
Misfits came to punk rock as men on a particular mission – to horrify and to seduce. In the process of bringing their highly melodic, horror-obsessed, muscular punk to a small, dedicated fanbase, they also created a musical style.
The legend of the Misfits grows…
Top 10 Songs by The Clash: The Only Songs That Matter
January 27, 2025
The Clash promised to become the only band that mattered. And they kept to their word, not just by being the most politically motivated of all the original punk-rock bands. They also created a body of work that soaked in the sounds of the time.
The Clash are one of the…
Kudre and Sallies Reviewed
January 7, 2025
Kudre – Johnny No Mates Army (Police State)
Pop songs and disaster movies are great predictors of the near future. AI must be handling this by now, but I assume back in the Secret Services, back in the old days, there must have been someone assigned to count how…
The 100 Best Punk Bands of All-Time: Great Rockin' Swindles
December 16, 2024
Punk-rock was an attitude at first, but it was doubled with an eye-catching fashion sense and a good marketing ploy. Then, it very much became a sound – something powerful enough to cut through any speaker and distinguish itself from disco rhythms and grandpa guitar…
Muscle and The Scoffs Reviewed
December 13, 2024
Muscle – S.N.L.
There are people who save up money for years and years, catch a big plane that takes them to France, and go insane the moment they witness Paris. There’s nothing in the water, and the French pastries are good as you’d imagine. But little else is…
Hammerbombs and Crack Up Reviewed
December 10, 2024
Hammerbombs – Talk to Me
The great joke of the Universe is not that it keeps throwing more problems and responsibilities at us as we grow up. The real joke is how seriously we decide to take them. Your friends are all debating politics, arguing with strangers on…
Eduard Bănulescu - "Fiction's Real" Review
December 6, 2024
It’s a hard truth, but few people come to a decision on their own and, when challenged, have the power to maintain it.
Blame it on the frailty of our human nature, or blame it on our education. But nearly every single one is a potential turncoat. All that’s…