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In March 2021, Ben Childs and Hector Diaz had the idea to start the 561 Music Podcast to spotlight diverse local music. Five years in, »
Cars have always inspired rock and pop songs, from “Rocket 88” — often credited as the first rock ’n’ roll song — on through The »
The early aughts ushered in bands that mined the past to redefine the future through a revival of garage rock, psych rock, and post-punk, among »
Born in the basement of his family home in Littleton, Colorado, in 1977, Ravi Zupa was raised in an environment where, in his words, “art »
When the British band Cymande broke up more than 50 years ago, after three albums and a foray to the U.S., they might have thought »
Turkish duo She Past Away combines a moody lyricism in the band’s native language with the stark lines of classic post-punk and the solitary chill »
Some scenes fade. Others go dormant; crouched low, listening, biding their time. This March, Florida punk does what it’s always done best: it reappears, loud »
A zine is technically a small-format, DIY published booklet about anything for any reason or subject. But even that wide-open description is too narrow to »
A novelist from another era once wrote that “art is the stored honey of the human soul” — both product and repository of our imagination, »
Before the world came to know him as rapper and activist Immortal Technique, the Peruvian emigre Felipe Andres Coronel was a teen-ager growing up in »
If West Palm Beach had a summer house in the clouds, it’d probably look like Dacha Gin + Tonic Bar. Perched on the rooftop of »
Some bands don’t just survive the churn of punk rock history; they endure, carrying their scars, their songs, and their audience forward with them. Unwritten »
