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Live Review + Gallery: X – Aladdin Theater – Portland, Oregon 2024.08.25

One of punk’s pioneering bands, X, announced earlier this year that their latest release, Smoke & Fiction, would be their final album, marking the end of their 40-plus-year career. They…

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Live Review: King Dunn – Mississippi Studios – Portland, Oregon 2024.08.09

Last Friday, Portland’s Mississippi Studios played host to an unexpected sonic journey. King Buzzo Osbourne, the iconic frontman of The Melvins, teamed up with Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn for…

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Premiere: JD Pinkus can’t help himself on ‘I Would Like to Pet It’, new solo album due next month

We last covered JD Pinkus here in the run-up to his collaborative album with Mike Savino/Tall Tall Trees, released in late June of last year. The former Butthole Surfers and…

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News: Melvins – Atlantic Recordings Reissued By Cherry Red Records

July 5, 2023

“The Melvins Complete Atlantic Recordings” is a comprehensive compilation album, which has now been reissued by Cherry Red Records in 2023. Originally released in 1996 that encompasses the band’s output…

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100 albums of 2021 you shouldn’t miss, plus playlist

In a moment a folly, I (not me and my editorial team, or my writers, or indeed anyone) decided to make a playlist of the year. Not one of those…

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Album Review: Melvins – Working With God

Rip-roaring return to form for West Coast sludge veterans on their 24th album.

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Mark Yarm – Everybody Loves Our Town: an oral history of Grunge

It gradually occurred to me, as I was reading this excellent and enjoyable oral history, that I didn’t, still don’t really like Grunge, or at least, any of the acts…

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