Next month, Pure Noise Records will release a new compilation called Dead Formats Volume 1, and it’ll feature a bunch of bands on the label’s roster covering songs that were influential to them. Most of those songs come from the punk and emo worlds of the ’90s and ’00s, and a lot of the songs that they&...

Well, here’s one of those things that feels like an internet algorithm dreamt it up. John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan in order to impress Jodie Foster in 1981, has been trying to get a music career off the ground for years. In 2020, a court ruled he could post music under his own name, and recently ...

Eve 6, as you have no doubt realized, has developed a whole new renaissance era partially fueled by Max Collins’ self-aware and amusing Twitter presence. You know who else has a history of quippy self-reflexive online behavior? Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles. Apparently, the two are now friends.

The great Bay Area ska-punk band Operation Ivy famously started in ’87 and ended in ’89. After their breakup, half of Op Ivy, Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, went on to form Rancid. In the ’90s, Op Ivy’s one album became part of the punk rock starter pack for every high school kid getting into the genre, b...