Blitz Kids The Good Youth Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay     It’s a touch amusing when the vocalist sings about being “contrived” and those are the exact words your thinking. “When I was born and raised all I wanted was to feel the pain” how quaint. It’s cute. Well, it’s Read More

Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay     It doesn’t get any braver than this. For decades punk rock has been about anthems, fighting the man, speaking against injustice and Against Me! are leading the charge in a new direction with Read More

by Ricky Haldis On any given night, a crowd of 50 people can make the Legendary Dobbs feel like it is packed from wall to wall. However, on Friday night, with a massive gathering of well over 100 eager music lovers, it was impossible to traverse the small, wood-paneled venue Read More

by Melissa Komar Enjoy rockin’ out with your mohawk at Vans Warped Tour?  Ever wonder where the whole punk scene began?  Look no further than The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design’s latest exhibit, Pretty Vacant: The Graphic Language of Punk. Curated by Kaytie Johnson, Read More

by Sebastian Mackay It takes a lot of balls and an equal amount of grit to fund one of the most bad-ass independent EPs to be released in 2013 and then give it away for free. But for Anchors to Anchors, the pop punk easycore fusion, it’s more about world domination than becoming Read More

by Jane Roser   “I think a friend named the band,” I’m sitting backstage at DC’s iconic 9:30 Club chatting with Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven, one of the bands that truly defined rock music of the 1990s (and one whose cassette tapes I wore Read More