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August 27, 2020 at 3:00 pm

Brooklyn is Burning

The landscape of the Brooklyn music scene is ever changing, but not always for the best. While we’ve seen an uprising in ...

July 2, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Soundtrack to a lost summer

I have a love/hate relationship with summer — especially in New York. On the worst days, the air reeks of piss and garbage, the ...

May 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Art Cures: Underworld

Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a ...

May 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Remembering Great Scott

Photos by Erin Christie Allston venue Great Scott existed as a pillar of Boston’s live music empire since its establishment in ...

April 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Art Cures: Reality bites

Art Cures, our new series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool ...

March 3, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Desolation Center: One for the Punks

How do you define DIY?  How do you inspire festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Burning Man?  These are the questions that ...

October 16, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Of Poets + Punks, II: Tango Del Pecado

Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar For someone who has two left feet compared to every Venezuelan I’ve ever met, most of my ...

September 9, 2019 at 9:00 am

Of Poets + Punks, I: On Goodbyes

Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar Press Play. Reporting live from the M Train and the back of Ubers and Lyfts and cabs and the ...

September 5, 2019 at 9:00 am

Summer of Schlagenheim

As labor day passes, signifying the death of summer Fridays, it’s time we all reflect on these past few months. This year’s summer ...

April 18, 2019 at 9:00 am

Eat Your ♥ Out

Photos by Allie Garber, poetry in collaboration with Jeanny Mae (TWIZZY).  Eat Your ♥ Out is a film photograph mini-series ...

November 14, 2018 at 11:42 am

For the love of god someone save PBR

Right now PBR is in the middle of a legal battle. It’s a little tedious but IN ESSENCE, the company that brews the sweet watery ...

May 9, 2018 at 9:00 am

Throwback review: After Hours

The plot of Scorsese’s After Hours consists almost entirely of a guy just trying to make it back home one night in New York City. I ...

March 16, 2018 at 8:00 am

From the vault: Palma Violets

Photos by Cheryl Georgette. A few years ago we took some photos for a zine feature that never ended up getting done. From said feature ...

October 12, 2017 at 8:00 am

Throwback Review: Iggy Pop ‘The Idiot’

Review and illustration by Alberto Pazzi. Good Rock’n’Roll is like comedy. When I see old videos of Iggy Pop bouncing around the ...

June 5, 2017 at 10:02 am

Review: The Wackness

I love explaining the premise of The Wackness: Josh Peck exchanges weed for therapy sessions with Ben Kingsley. It really is as good ...

April 19, 2017 at 11:24 am

Album Review: Carsickness “1979-1982”

Every punk fan tries to one up their fellow punk fans—it’s just a fun game we like to play. “Oh, you like that obscure punk band ...

February 24, 2017 at 10:00 am

Throwback Review: Final Destination

A group of high schoolers avoid a catastrophic death by getting kicked off a plane when one has a vision of the plane exploding just ...

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February 17, 2017 at 3:28 pm

Throwback Review: Urban Legend

I spent a lot of time with my grandparents growing up, and on both sides there was a general adoration of scary movies. One ...

July 20, 2016 at 5:28 pm

10 Movie Soundtracks to Stream Online!

A good soundtrack can make a bad film seem great. A good soundtrack is there to clog holes in a leaky ship. I know we do not like to ...

December 23, 2015 at 6:16 pm

A Very GUTR Year

Give Up The Roast is a column that collides delicious caffeine with wild thrashing a la a bi-monthly coffee and punk album ...

December 17, 2015 at 9:22 pm

Staff Picks: Top Releases of 2015

Our top picks for 2015! List by Nasa, Hafi, Raf, Tim, Shea, Rich, and Brittany  All year our staff has been reviewing music, going ...