Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham was proudly straight-edge for most of his adulthood, but a few years ago, he decided that the anti-anxiety medication he’d been taking wasn’t working for him, and he decided to try something else. In almost no time at all, Abraham (who is, full disclosure, my friend) became the biggest stoner...

Earlier this summer, Fucked Up released Glass Boys, one of the year’s grandest, most powerful, most triumphant rock albums. But considering that the members of the band are devotees of the art of non-album singles, they were never going to let the songs on the album be the whole story. And now they’ve announced that [...]

The frontman discusses last year's drugs arrest and the effect it had on his pop star girlfriend

Earlier this summer EDM star Avicii played a show at Boston’s TD Garden arena, and upwards of 80 people at the show needed medical attention for intoxication-related issues. When that story broke, it was easy to pin the blame on big-time festival rave music and the culture surrounding it. But then, getting fucked up at [...]

Two years ago, the young Brooklyn-based rock band Nude Beach released their album II, deeply enjoyable piece of classic-rock-informed punk. Every song aimed straight for the pleasure center and hit its target, and I fucked up badly when I didn’t give it Album Of The Week. (Seriously, in three years of writing that column, it’...