Giveaway: The Lawrence Arms Present: The 10th Annual War on Xmas
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, you have a chance to win.To celebrate The Lawrence Arms’ The 10th Annual War on Xmas, we’re giving away one pair of tickets to night one and one pair of tickets to night two of the show. Send a letter to Santa (aka fill out the form below) for a chance to win. The Lawrence Arms Present: The 10th Annual War on Xmas…
Time to end your search for the perfect one-hitter, dude
Since I started smoking pot in the late-1900s, things have come about as far as the Internet has in the same span of time. Dealers offer lengthy menus of strains, packaged in odor-free baggies printed with nifty branded art. Dispensaries stock a dizzying array of tinctures, extracts, and edibles. And as far as methods of…
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of April 16th, 2018Check out new music from Laura Jane Grace, The Longshot, A Perfect Circle, Sleep, Fidlar, Flatfoot 56, and The Brokedowns.
John Lurie isn’t fooling anybody with this Marvin Pontiac reissue for Record Store Day
In 1999, cult favorite actor/musician/prankster polymath John Lurie—leader of the Lounge Lizards, early Jim Jarmusch muse, brilliant host of the absurdist celebrity travelogue Fishing with John—let slip an album, The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, on his Strange and Beautiful Music label. The titular artist, press materials of the time claimed, was a lost hero of…
4/20: It’s not just for stoners anymore
Here are some of the other reasons to reflect today.It’s April 20, so let’s pay homage to five pieces of pop culture surrounding everything else extraordinary about 4/20 (the date, not the time—you’re still with us, right?)
Stream ‘Love Is For Losers’ the debut album from The Longshot, Billie Joe Armstrong’s new band
After teasing out the concept the last couple weeks, Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed the three new songs that make up the debut EP from his latest mysterious new band.
It’s 4/20, have some Alcohol and listen to new FIDLAR
Celebrate 4/20 the only way we know how, with ‘Alcohol’, the new song from Fidlar. ‘Alcohol’ is now available everywhere. You can buy it here. Fidlar plays Coachella this weekend. You should see them. The kick ass.
Is “Agitated” by Electric Eels the first punk song?
The Electric Eels formed in Cleveland, Ohio (oh, that Cleveland!) in 1972, when pretty much anybody else you’d attempt to argue in vain as being the composers of the first punk song were in short pants, and/or long hair and glammy glam makeup. And while “Agitated” wasn’t the band’s first song—and wasn’t even released until 1978…
The band Sleep is releasing a new album tomorrow
Stoner metal band Sleep is releasing a six-track LP via Third Man Records tomorrow, April 20… a.k.a. 4/20, a.k.a. marijuana Christmas. The Sciences showcases the first new music from the band since 2014, and its first album since 2003’s Dopesmoker (which was reissued in 2012). The Sciences Track List: 01. The Sciences 02. Marijuanaut’s Theme 03. Sonic…
