Author: Annie Fell

I cannot fathom why anyone would want to listen to sad music when they’re depressed. I’m generally just not the type to want to exacerbate… Read more

To paraphrase Kim Gordon—England didn't invent punk rock, girl groups did. In the early 1960s, teenage sisters Veronica and Estelle Bennett and their cousin, Nedra Talley… Read more

Learning to play a guitar as a kid would’ve probably been a lot more fun if it hadn't required tirelessly stretching and blistering tiny kid… Read more

Is crying in class punk rock? Mental health crises are integral to punk, from the Ramones wanting to be sedated to depression taking hold of… Read more

Wherein a modest Superchunk observer tries to get into the band's new album, with mixed results. Read more

Lip syncing is a fundamental part of drag, whether in the sacred tradition of a shake-n-go wig-clad queen mouthing along to Gloria Gaynor in a… Read more

When Robert Plant sang of a modern Promised Land that was home to “a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in… Read more