Category Archive: music

“Let It Be”: The Replacements, Generation X, and Sexuality 30 Years Later

“If they hadn’t come along I think we would have to invent them somehow,” impressively bearded writer Robert […]

I Listened to the New U2 Album So You Don’t Have to

I, like millions of other Apple users, woke up to find that Tim Cook had bought me an […]

Album 88: Historically Right on the Music, Presently Leaving the Dial

Since 1971, Georgia State University has hosted an important Atlanta cultural institution—one that has created a positive relationship […]

The Reagan Revolution Part II: The Thinnest of Hip Hop Primers on Rap’s Rejection of Ronald Reagan, 1980 – 2013

  Over the last twenty or thirty years, historians have tried to situate the United States in a […]

Punk and the Seamstress

I started “going punk” in 8th grade at Kranz Jr. High School back in 1990. At first I […]

“The Sky is Black and the Asphalt Blue”: Placing El Monte in the Early LA Punk Scene

The suburban sprawl 30 minutes east of Hollywood called El Monte doesn’t usually get included in the genesis […]

The Reagan Revolution Part I: Popular Music, Ronald Reagan, and Protest: Punk, Hardcore, and Post Punk, a Primer, 1980-2010

Editor’s note: This week we kick off a series of posts on punk in the 1980s and 1990s […]

The Pirates of Los Angeles: Music, Technology, and Counterculture in Southern California

[Editor’s note: this article originally appeared in the Intersections column on the KCET Departures website, June 27, 2013.] […]