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It’s always cool to see musicians willing to stand with workers on strike. Last month, Billy Bragg joined Starbucks workers in a picket line demonstration in Buffalo. Today, the forever-changing Scottish band Primal Scream and the Birmingham legends Dexys Midnight Runners — a one-hit wonder in the US but an institution in the...

For a decade, the Philadelphia punk crew the HIRS Collective have put out a few sprawling albums, including 2018’s Friends, Lovers. Favorites. and last year’s The Third 100 Songs. Today, they’re announcing a new album called We’re Still Here that features a whole lot of collaborators, among them members of...

Intense, fraught emotions coursed through Elliott Smith’s music. This is true of screamo as well, more or less definitionally. Still, the prospect of a screamo-based Elliott Smith tribute album feels extremely wild.

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