Tag: punk
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Spittoon Scrap Tune Wrap
The songs I spun voraciously in 2024—Now featuring more new stuff than before!
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How NOT to DJ a Preschool Graduation Ceremony
This piece is a warning: If you ever find yourself tagged in as DJ for a preschool graduation ceremony, pay very careful attention to the songs you play.
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ST. PATRICK’S SMACKDOWN 2024
THE MURPHYS VS. MOLLY I made this flier. I was proud of it. I think a lot of white people in the United States are aspirationally Irish—especially when it comes to their media consumption. It’s part of the popular myth of the Irish in America: Civil War heroes who consistently prove their willingness to get…
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SONIC-ATOMIC SIDEREAL SONG BOMB
OK. This is it. You fucked up in 2022 and didn’t finish the annual listening retrospective…
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Comp Book Comp – February 2023
A few (mostly) recent entries in my Lynda Barry-inspired comics journal, compiled here to entertain and perplex you.
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American Downfall Annual Sounds Haul: 2022 in Tunes, PART ONE
Introduction OK—end of the year, time to account for the last twelve months of spins. And since I recently spent a few months “between jobs,” and consequently am still on the Lyndon Johnson lunchtime diet (depicted below), I’m gonna try to keep it short this time. We’ll see how that turns out. Still, it shouldn’t…
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SNOT ROCK CD Selections 001: Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
I’m starting this CD reviews series with a personal favorite: My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello’s 1977 full-length—the album where Declan Patrick MacManus conclusively proved that mixing jittery nerd-rock, cynical lit-pop, semi-goofy vintage posturing, and biting, self-aware toxicity makes for a pretty solid angst-pop cocktail. I first heard Costello in high school. It was a…
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The Green Day Answer
These days, when people ask me who my favorite band is, I always say the same thing: “Do you want the cool answer, or the Green Day answer? “Because it’s Green Day.” It’s true. It’s partly a Bay Area pop-punk localistic loyalism, sure. It’s largely nostalgic. Mike Dirnt and I share a birthday. Counting in…
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