There’s a feeling I get when my mind turns to The English Beat (or The Beat, for you purists). I’d call it nostalgia, but nostalgia alone can’t explain how the band continues to pack nightclubs some 25-30 years after its last major hit. And it can’t be dismissed as some uncanny, one-hit-wonder attraction either. For […]
With their sixth installment, Hopeless Records delivers their annual compilation, Hopelessly Devoted to You, with an extra punch this summer in Volume 6. Normally around three dollars, the comp is always one of the better label collections out there. This year they’ve outdone themselves.
If The Toasters only knew the third wave of ska would someday be crushed by a ‘Reel Big Fish’, Bucket and the boys might never have tried to bring the sound stateside. Ironically, similar trends seem to be pervasive in punk, as everybody’s favorite whipping boy Good Charlotte is most certain to be responsible for […]
“Every 17 minutes, at least six Americans lose a loved one to suicide, for a total loss of life to suicide of more than 30,000 people each year.” That’s what reads inside the cover of this 2 volume compilation of artists, coming together to contribute to The National Hopeline Network, a suicide prevention and crisis […]
There’s a scene at the beginning of the movie “When Harry Met Sally,” where Harry asks Sally to tell him her life story as a way to pass the 17-hour drive from Chicago to New York. As a recent college graduate, she tells Harry that her life story wouldn’t get them out of Chicago because […]
