Punk
The Linda Lindas Sign Deal with Epitaph Records
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-23T00:38:42+00:00“>May 22, 2021 | 8:38pm ET On the heels of their viral video, punk sensations The Linda Lindas have reportedly signed a deal with Epitaph Records. The Los Angeles-based punk group made up of Asian and Latinx teenage girls has been on the scene since 2018, and their resumé already included a gig opening for Bikini Kill and an appearance in Amy Poehler’s movie Moxie. But their May 4th performance of “Racist Sexist Boys” propelled The Linda Lindas to new heights of fame. Filmed at a Los Angeles public library, video of the concert went viral, garnering millions of views and cosigns from rock luminaries like Tom Morello and Thurston Moore. Now, according to Variety, ...
Young Rockers The Linda Lindas Resurrect Riot Grrrl for Viral Song “Racist Sexist Boys”: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-21T03:07:58+00:00“>May 20, 2021 | 11:07pm ET We aren’t living in the sunniest of times, but some of the best music comes out of the dark. Meet The Linda Lindas, a group of teen and pre-teen girls who responded to targeted harassment with the song “Racist Sexist Boys”. They performed the track during a May 4th concert at the LA Public Library, and the rawness of the footage has touched a nerve and made the track go viral. Lucia (14), Eloise (13), Mila (10), and Bela (16), are already veterans of the Los Angeles punk scene. Two years ago they had their first internet hit with a cover of “Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill. It went far enough as to catch Bikini Kill’s attention, and the you...
John Lydon Threatens to Sue Danny Boyle Over “Disrespectful” Sex Pistols TV Series
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-26T15:31:24+00:00“>April 26, 2021 | 11:31am ET John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon is threatening to sue Danny Boyle over his Sex Pistols miniseries. In a new interview with The Sunday Times, the former Pistols frontman called the decision not to hire him as a consultant “disrespectful.” (Via NME). The six-episode limited series is entitled Pistol, and is based on Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol. Boyle is directing and executive producing, while Craig Pearce (The Great Gatsby) is credited as creator and co-writer alongside Frank Cottrell-Boyce (24 Hour Party People). Pistol began filming last month and of cou...
Consequence’s Under the Tracks on Vans’ Channel 66 Goes Skate Punk on New Episode
Consequence’s bi-weekly livestream program Under the Tracks rides back to Vans’ Channel 66 on April 5th. This week, Host NNAMDÏ welcomes guests Pete Wilson of Pete Wilson & The Rooks and Cafe Racer to carve out the history of Chicago’s skate music scene. Each artist will put together a unique 45-minute DJ set that drops in on the punk, hardcore, and garage sounds that have soundtracked The Second City’s skate culture throughout the decades. A visual artist in addition to being the vocalist and guitarist for The Rooks, Pete Wilson brings the sublime sensibilities of recent videos like “Look at the Skull in My Face” to his group’s experimental rock sounds. Together with his fellow bandmates drummer Corin and bassist Kevo, his group’s focus on the weird and overlooked align...
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Is Hardly Cliché: SXSW Review
Editor’s Note: The following review is as part of our coverage of the 2021 South by Southwest Film Festival. Stay tuned for further reviews straight outta Austin — well, virtually, of course. Below, Rachel Reeves checks out the new rock doc on Poly Styrene. The Pitch: Marianne Elliott-Said, aka Poly Styrene, is a punk rock icon. She was the first woman of color to front a successful UK punk band. She defied stereotypes and inspired countless women to do the same. She was also a highly flawed individual who struggled with mental health issues, a misogynistic industry, her personal identity and relationships. She was all of these things and so much more. Now, years after her passing, Styrene’s daughter Celeste Bell and co-director Paul Sng have released an incredibly personal tribute to...
Fiddlehead Announce New Album Between The Richness, Share “Million Times”
Back in 2018, Fiddlehead made waves in the hardcore scene with their terrific debut album Springtime and Blind. Now, the melodic hardcore band that features members of Have Heart and Basement have announced its follow-up, Between The Richness. It’s won’t arrive until late May, but they’re previewing it today with an excellent lead single called “Million Times”. Although the members of the band come from the hardcore scene and play a style of music that can more or less be described as such, Fiddlehead don’t make fast, rowdy, or angry music. Their songs are often energetic and loose, but they pull a lot from the Revolution Summer emotional hardcore wave of the mid-to-late ’80s: bands like Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, and later Fugazi and Dischord Records. These aren’t songs for mos...
Danny Boyle Shares First Look at Sex Pistols TV Series
Louis Partridge as bassist Sid Vicious, Anson Boon as singer John Lydon, Jacob Slater as drummer Paul Cook and Toby Wallace as guitarist Steve Jones, photo by Miya Mizuno for FX Danny Boyle has shared the first look at his upcoming TV series about Sex Pistols, which is slated to premiere on FX. Entitled Pistol, the six-episode limited series is based on the 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. As such, the show will center around Jones’ journey from his West London council estates home to the iconic Sex boutique owned by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, an epicenter of early punk culture. From there, Boyle will trace the relatively short but furious rise and fall of Sex Pistols. Toby Wallace (Babyteeth) will play Jones, ...
The Offspring Announce New Album Let the Bad Times Roll, Share Title Track: Stream
The Offspring will return on April 16th with their tenth studio album. Entitled Let the Bad Times Roll, it serves as the long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Days Go By. As was the case for Days Go By, The Offspring recruited Bob Rock to produced Let the Bad Times Roll. The new album spans 12 tracks in total. The title track serves as the lead single and is streaming below. “Coming For You”, a song originally released way back in 2015, also appears on the tracklist, as does a newly recorded version of the band’s 1997 classic “Gone Away”. Last year, The Offspring released a quarantine cover of Tiger King’s “Here Kitty Kitty”, and celebrated the holidays with their own version of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”. [embedded content] Let the Bad Times Roll Artwork: <img data-attachment-id=&q...
Less Than Jake on 25 Years of Losing Streak
Kyle Meredith With… Less Than Jake Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Less Than Jake frontman Chris DeMakes sits down with Kyle Meredtih to talk about the band’s new album, Silver Linings, and the need to bring positivity and fun in the current era. The ska-punk legend also discusses being a legacy band, co-founder Vinnie Fiorello leaving in 2018, writing songs about their friends, and having Matt Yonker behind the drum kit. DeMakes also hits on Losing Streak’s 25th anniversary, the band’s upcoming 30th anniversary plans, Chris DeMakes A Podcast, writing jingles for people, and his newly published biography. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredit...
Jeff Rosenstock Shares New Song “Illegal Fireworks And Hiding Bottles In The Sand”: Stream
With mere hours to go until New Years Eve, Jeff Rosenstock dropped not one, but two (!) brand new songs to bid farewell to 2020. They’re called “Illegal Fireworks And Hiding Bottles In The Sand” and “Caring”, and you can stream them below via Bandcamp. Technically “Caring” hit the web first on December 30th. The acoustic duet sees him teaming up with his old bandmate and longtime friend Laura Stevenson for a sweet ballad about writer’s block, longing, and trying to get your creative muscles going again. “Illegal Fireworks And Hiding Bottles In The Sand” followed suit on New Year’s Eve. Over fuzzy, warm, reverb-drenched shoegaze, Rosenstock sings about the comfort of falling asleep to the thought of a loved one. It’s a completely different sound than the previous song, but it’s sweet noneth...
An Oral History of The Clash’s “The Magnificent Seven”
“It’s perfect,” Joe Strummer insisted about The Clash’s fourth album, the sprawling, 36-song triple album set, Sandinista!, over beers in an East Village bar back in the early 1990s. While Strummer’s tongue was firmly in cheek, he wasn’t backing down on his claim. He loved his former band, and Sandinista! loomed large in the legend about everything they stood for – the good and the bad, planting feet firmly in the future while still honoring the past, not to mention both their collective creativity and rock star excess – and still stands today as a remarkable, if beguiling, achievement. Featuring forays into everything from jazz and gospel to hip-hop and rockabilly, Sandinista! was the ultimate rock and roll indulgence by a band that had only just started to crack the big time after releas...
Top 50 Songs of 2020
The 2020 edition of our Annual Report continues today with our Top 50 Songs of 2020. If you haven’t already, check out our Top 50 Albums of 2020, which came out earlier in the week. Also, be sure to tune in next week as we begin handing out our annual accolades and continue looking back on the strange year that was 2020. Upon being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame some years ago, Tom Waits said, “We love music, but what we really want is for music to love us back.” Believe it or not, it felt like music did that in 2020. For me, anyway. I know that it’s easy to see the world through pandemic goggles right now or strictly through the lens of racial injustice or political turmoil. Tragedy and frustration that keeps piling on can definitely cloud our vision or color our window on t...
