Pixies have long held the reputation of that band some bigger band emulated, to put it kindly. To Joey Santiago, the Pixies’ calculated lead guitarist,… Read more
Category: Interviews
Since the early MySpace days, writer and former A.V. Club editor Kyle Ryan has been collecting terrible band names. He’s keeping his 15-year effort going… Read more
Brian Baker talks to us about his new supergroup Fake Names—and how he recruited Refused’s Dennis Lyxzén for the project at Riot Fest 2016.
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Bollweevils frontman Daryl Wilson is a doctor working on the front lines of Illinois’s coronavirus outbreak. Here's what he says you can do to make… Read more
I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit watching skate videos—which, as a non-skater, is really only marginally better than if I’d spent the… Read more
Nowadays, it’s easy to take punk/alternative-minded outdoor festivals for granted—but in the 1980s, there was little opportunity for scrappy, weird bands to get any sun. Read more
He's played bass for Superchunk and Bob Mould. Now he's written a punk rock musical about his childhood band. Read more
Miguel Chen wants you to suffer less and live more. That's the focus of his new book, ‘The Death Of You: A Book For Anyone… Read more
He books the festival, now he’s getting his own band back together: Buck Foley talks about The Infected getting back together nearly 10 years later. Read more
The Hard Times co-founders talk about searching for an offline audience with their first book, ’The Hard Times: The First 40 Years,‘ in an interview… Read more
As the 1990s recede further into the distance, they become a more fabled time for music in general, and “alternative/indie” rock in particular. Time has… Read more
Sports Team frontman Alex Rice chats with us ahead of the band's first-ever Chicago show. Read more