For Mayday Parade guitarist Alex Garcia, his band's 2007 debut full-length album A Lesson In Romantics is essentially a time capsule. “I was definitely younger… Read more
Category: Full Albums
On this day in 1988, Guns n' Roses had the number one song in the country with "Sweet Child o' Mine," the Cold War was… Read more
“The Plan” keeps coming up again. It comes up on your good playlists, usually first. It’s always in your rankings of “Best Damn Kickoff Tracks… Read more
This past March marked twenty years of one of the biggest releases in the history of ska: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Let’s Face It. Set… Read more
I only knew of The Lawrence Arms as a symbol before I knew they were a band.
In high school, a lot of the punks I… Read more
As most rock nerds know by now, Big Star were the quintessential "should have been huge" band. In their short time as a group, the… Read more
Finally, Anthony Raneri has free time. His band, Bayside, is spending the summer off the road for the first time in more than a decade,… Read more
They never had any massive hits like Nirvana or Pearl Jam; they never so defined a sub-genre, nor generated as many direct copycats, as My… Read more
In the summer of 1992, I was 15 years old and struggling desperately to find out everything I could about underground music–something I’d only recently… Read more
An itemized inventory of Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers): nine cigarette cherries glowing beneath the caged walkways of Staten Island’s Stapleton Projects; nine… Read more
Last month, we unveiled eight of the ten full-album performances to happen at Riot Fest 2017. Now we reveal the final two albums; Danzig III:… Read more
Dick, Barry, and Rob -- and even fucking Ian -- from Chicago's favorite independent record store, Championship Vinyl, have teamed up with us to help pick out… Read more