First Show of the Guns N’ Roses Reunion
Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan played together for the first time in twenty-three years at the Troubador on April 1st, Stereogum reports. Recording devices supposedly weren’t allowed, but that of…
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Liz Wood
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Liz Wood is a writer and critic living in Cape Cod. She was a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a member of the NBCC 2023 and 2024 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.
This Week in Posivibes: A Tribute to ’80s New York
In a bid against HBO’s Vinyl over-romanticizing ’70s New York to the exception of other decades, the Guardian published a piece on why the ’80s were more important than popular fantasy seems to suggest. The…
Like It’s Still 1999
Veruca Salt has released a video from their latest album that sounds, and looks, a whole like nothing has changed since 1999, the year their song “Volcano Girls” appeared in…
This Week in Posivibes: Sheer Mag
Philadelphia’s Sheer Mag has received posivibes for the series of EPs it has released, beginning with Still Single’s praise for Sheer Mag I. The third EP, logically titled III, is still walking the power-pop/pop-metal line…
Watch Prince Cover Bowie’s “Heroes”
Prince played two shows in Toronto on the Piano & A Microphone tour, and his sets featured a series of covers: the artist performed his take on David Bowie’s “Heroes,” along…
D’Angelo Gets Funky at the Sydney Opera House
We’ve spoken before of D’Angelo’s ever-evolving live shows, and his recent performance at the Sydney Opera House was no different: this time definitely leaning toward the funk in his rendition of…
Memoir from Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace
The Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace has announced that Hatchette Books will be publishing her memoir Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout. The book was written with…
Joe Corré and Claiming Punk
Joe Corré, co-founder of Agent Provocateur lingerie and son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, has once again raised the issue of what it means to “claim” punk: in what…
This Week in Posivibes: The Feelies Reissues
If you don’t know The Feelies, you’ve been given the opportunity to remedy that: Bar/None records has re-released 1988’s Only Life and 1991’s Time for a Witness. Both hit stores March 11th and can…
I Want You Turns Forty
Marvin Gaye’s incredible record has turned forty and to celebrate the greatness of the work, Pitchfork has published a tribute to I Want You and to Gaye’s tactile sound and the history…
DC Politicians Unhappy with PJ Harvey
The singer’s “The Community of Hope,” off her upcoming album The Hope Six Demolition Project, has been out a week and is already drawing attention from unhappy politicians. The song was…
Of Theremins and Star Wars
Georgia Tech hosts a yearly competition in musical instrument design called the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, where MIDI players are reborn in new forms that may expand the possibilities for…