You have to love a band name like Rat Cage. When a band picks a name like that, you know exactly what you’re getting. The Sheffield group makes the kind of frantic, intense, ripshit-angry hardcore punk that evokes images of fleas, diseases, and desperate pent-up energy, and they deliver on that. We last heard from Rat Cage when they dr...

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Let’s start at the top: I fell desperately in love with someone I knew was bound to fuck me up. So begins “Horny Hangover,” the second track and second single of Queen Of Jeans’ third album All Again. “We’re trying to tell the story of when you look back at an important relationship,” guitarist and pianist Matheson Glass explained ...

Last year, the widely beloved New York singer-songwriter Jesse Malin, a veteran of punk bands like Heart Attack and D Generation, suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him partially paralyzed. Malin’s peers and admirers raised money for his recovery, and stars like Bruce Springsteen and Billie Joe Armstrong covered his songs on the f...