Author: Andrew Bonazelli

Dookie came out 25 years ago this month. Yours truly was 17, and like most 17-year-olds without a Cool Older Bro to tell me what… Read more

Maybe it’s the downtown: a nondescript floral arrangement of condos and banks, culminating in the frat-friendly Gaslamp Quarter. Or perhaps because from its countless gorgeous… Read more

“I wanna kill myself, but I’ll go read a book instead.” This is the first thing vocalist/guitarist Skyler McKee says in the Super Whatevr song, “Telelelevision.” It’s… Read more

“I’m always writing. I’m always playing. I’m always listening to music, thinking ‘What next?’” Read more

By day, Dane Erbach is an educator of curious minds, teaching high school English (specifically, creative writing and journalism) in suburban Chicago. By night, Erbach… Read more

With 10 half-hour episodes, the (outstanding) new YouTube Red series Cobra Kai does for 1984 film The Karate Kid what Ryan Coogler’s Creed did for the Rocky hexology: exhibiting affectionate… Read more

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration,” Stephen King once wrote. “The rest of us just get up and go to work.” In that spirit, Riot Fest’s… Read more

In 1985, Tipper Gore, her husband Al, and a handful of their fellow human buzzkills that made up the Parents Music Resource Center declared a handful… Read more

In one regard, it doesn’t matter who holds the most powerful elected office in the country—we’ll always need all the good politicians we can get… Read more

Around the turn of the Willennium, America couldn't seem to get enough of nü-metal bands taking familiar pop songs and making them heavier, crazier, more… Read more

In the latest 'Shirts So Good', we talk to the Atlast Moth guitarist and singer Stavros Giannopoulos about the unfortunate fate of his former favorite… Read more

Ooh-woo-ooh-OOH-OOH-OO-OO-OO! Okay, yeah, spelling it out doesn’t really do the trick, but everybody knows the vocal melody to Spacehog’s “In the Meantime.” The lone hit… Read more