Tuscadero – The Pink Album

So I’m kind of bummed because, while I am going to an Unrest reunion in DC, I am not able to adjust my schedule for the one that they’re playing with Tuscadero! NYC always gets the good shit. Unless you’re really into midwestern pop-punk reunions, in which case you should stay in Chicago, girl. The [...]

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madigan – rock stop

I learned of Madigan’s solo work after developing a high school love affair with her band Tattle Tale, in which she played along with guitarist/vocalist Jen Wood. Madigan later went on to record as Bonfire Madigan, but I have a giant soft spot in my heart for one particular recording of hers under her original [...]

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marine girls

It’s been raining again in Portland, which is 800 times as torturous as winter because now it’s really nice everywhere else. I just want to be on a beach sipping a pink cocktail, slathered in coconut-scented suntan oil full of chemicals & listening to Marine Girls sing songs about lost love and the sea while [...]

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band dudes & being shitty to women

I’m hesitant to name examples right now due to the physical safety of many women I care about, but I’m really bummed out about the continued support that bands get even after one of their members is exposed for being a rapist or an abuser. I was just reading a music blog that features a [...]

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Longstocking – Will You Stay b/w Something Else I Can Never Change

Longstocking – Will You Stay b/w Something Else I Can Never Change I will be writing my Rad Fest summary when I get all caught up from work (10 words or less version – Rad! Also, So. Many. Dudes.) but in the meantime, I ran across this 7″ when trying to cleanse the orgcore from [...]

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SPRING JAMZ

Jess went to Rad Fest! I kind of hope she pretends I’m “twitter” so I get updates sent to me via text messages because it’s the future. I wrote this big thing about Lifetime (yes, that Lifetime), but I started to feel conflicted because they were a band of dudes and I wanted to make [...]

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your dude band sucks, part 1

The first edition of Your Dude Band Sucks is a band from Tempe, AZ called Bro-Loaf. These dudes look like this: I’m guessing the Ed Hardy/Affliction gear is “ironic,” but whatever – EMBARRASSING. I was whining to Jess about how I never get to go to fests anymore because I live on the west coast [...]

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