“I consider myself merely a mid-level fan of the Fall. I do own and love seventeen of their albums — it’s just that I’m still missing fourteen other studio albums, not to mention all the live albums.

On a quiet block just west of Halsted Street in Bridgeport, a former funeral home now houses a collection of memories — both physical and emotional — so niche, so random, it almost shouldn’t exist.

Thirty years ago this week, The Smiths released their self-titled debut. It arrived at a time when every bass groove, dissonant guitar and echo-ey drum machine rhythm that would become identified with ...

“Left all alone, I’m with the one I most fear,” Adrian Borland sang on “I Can’t Escape Myself,” the first and best song on The Sound‘s 1980 debut album Jeopardy, and as conveyed in the 2016 Adrian ...

Scene changes in rock ’n’ roll are reactionary. In the early 2000s, nü-metal bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn dominated American radio stations. Across the pond, the end of Britpop had birthed safer ...

Dayton bands Oh Condor, Place Position and Black Spot, along with Cincinnati’s near-unpronounceable oYoXoYo, will be putting on an “avalanche of high energy and delay-drenched experimental-leaning ...

In a year full of album release delays, it feels a bit weird to share best-of lists at the halfway point of 2020, but it seems like post-punk LPs—as opposed to the big pop, rock or hip-hop releases of ...

When punk supposedly “died,” it imparted new life into its sister genre, post-punk, which has its own derivative forms, including new wave and goth. These are ultimately meaningless distinctions, but ...

Dave Allen, the bassist of the groundbreaking post-punk band Gang of Four, has died just weeks before the start of the band’s farewell tour. He was 69. Allen died Saturday morning, April 5, at home ...

Strange Passion consists of tracks from Irish post-punk, DIY, and electronic musicians circa 1980-83. Lovingly pulled from rare vinyl and cassette releases by Dublin DJ Darren McCreesh, the collection ...

Leucovorin is a drug that counteracts the side effects of chemotherapy medication. It also makes an appearance on post-punk band True Faith’s new record, “Leucovorin Rescue b / w What Is Owed” ...

The only surviving 35mm print of Slava Tsukerman’s cult film Liquid Sky will have its final public screenings at Quad Cinema before being permanently retired. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely ...