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fruit loOops’ no wave theatre of the absurd
The Cincinnati noise rock and performance art outfit, who once live-soundtracked a wrestling match at Santamania, chat at a hometown KFC/Taco Bell.
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near-arctic state of alert: tracking norway’s recent punk explosion
One punk band after another has popped up in a handful of Norway’s largest cities, drawing crowds in a country where acts of cultural transgression are rare.
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evinspragg’s synth punk soliloquies will outlast the egg war
Milwaukee’s Eric Mayer was hashing out some inner thoughts through songwriting. He didn’t know the album notes would be the spark for the egg punk discourse.
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power pants stay ready in virginia’s new punk valley
The prolific oddball rock'n'roller from Winchester, Virginia can’t stop making records and really hates AI.
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ty champion detroit punk’s “hell yeah” moment
A conversation—about their album WE R TY, evolving their sound to where it is now, and why they’re not afraid of Detroit Nazis—before their show in Hamtramck. (There was a fish fry happening downstairs.)
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guiding light are ready to take over the world beyond austin
An origin story chat over beers and mezcal palomas at their homebase dive bar.
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iron lung see no end in sight
On the new album Adapting // Crawling, the heavy music institution stays focused America’s broken health care system, but this time from a new vantage point.
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s.o.h.’s kristine nevrose is a hardcore powerhouse, activist, and doctor
Following the release of the deeply sick album Cost to Live, we discussed punk as protest and the many lives she lives in Los Angeles.
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the postmodern punk of powerwasher
The Baltimore band, whose debut album Everyone Laughs arrived in 2024, on their boyfriend playdate origins and critical theorist influences.
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chubby and the gang on closing a trilogy + the power of unions
Following his new album And Then There Was..., see/saw presents two conversations with the uncompromising Chubby Charles
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ryan davis & the roadhouse band’s mid-tour hive mind
At a Menomonie, Wisconsin brewery between shows on the MJ Lenderman tour, the six-piece rock’n’roll crew discussed creativity and community after coincidentally ordering the same beer.
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straw man army reject the end times (but love the cemetery)
The duo of Owen Deutsch and Sean Fentress meet at a Brooklyn graveyard to discuss the future-facing final album in their trilogy