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The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s

The 1980s might conjure up images of leg warmers, parachute pants, moonwalking, Flock of Seagulls haircuts and any number of John Hughes movies. But looking back at the decade’s best albums, those years were extremely diverse.  read more

Crate Digger: The Replacements Stink Some More

The Replacements The Shit Hits the Fans (Twin Tone, 1984) It’s a fairly common rock ‘n’ roll tale (I think): kid gets caught bootlegging concert, engineer confiscates tape and delivers it to band, band listens to tape, likes it, and considers releasing it legitimately. That’s basically what happened with the Maxell XL II-S cassette Replacements soundman Bill Mack swiped from some poor schlub at the Bowery in Oklahoma City, OK, on the chilly evening of November 11, 1984. The twist in this version, however, is that the performance in question wasn’t very good—80% of the Replacements’ lethargic, tuneless set that...  read more

Fan-Based Replacements Documentary Set To Debut Later This Month

Color Me Obsessed, a documentary about Minneapolis cult-rockers The Replacements, will debut later this month. Rather than entirely focusing on the band itself, director Gorman Bechard takes a different approach, emphasizing the impact that the band has had on many of its diehard fans....  read more

Ted Leo, St. Vincent, Wye Oak to Play Our Band Could Be Your Life Concert

Ted Leo, Wye Oak and St. Vincent are among the acts that have teamed up to perform in the Our Band Could Be Your Life Concert....  read more

A Million Miles From Paradise City: Tommy Stinson Goes to Haiti

Like many musicians, Tommy Stinson—bassist for The Replacements and Guns N’ Roses—gave some money to Red Cross in the wake of Haiti’s devastating earthquake earlier this year. But for him, it didn’t seem like enough.  read more

Ten Bands We'd Really Love to See Reunited

Last weekend, The Libertines reunited at the Reading and Leeds festivals in England, which got us thinking: If Pete Doherty and Carl Barat can put aside their differences, why can't some of our other favorite groups bury the hatchet?  read more

Jangle Bell Rock: A Chronological (Non-Holiday) Anthology… from The Beatles and Byrds to R.E.M. and Beyond

It's hard to say exactly where it started, but The Beatles and The Byrds often get the most credit for starting the enduring subgenre that's come to be known as jangle pop. Of course, The Searchers and even The Everly Brothers were laying the foundations before them...   read more

21 Songs About Booze: A Playlist in Honor of 95-Year-Old Bartender Angelo Cammarata

Above: Prohibition, what a waste. Angelo Cammarata, 95, is the world's longest-running bartender. He's literally been serving since a few minutes after prohibition ended in 1933—he's even in the Guinness Book and Jim Beam's Bartender Hall of Fame for his longevity slinging suds. Of course, there's more to being a barkeep than pouring drinks. As this man has presided over his family business—no-frills neighborhood bar Cammarata's Cafe in West View, Pa.—for the better part of the last century and into the new millennium, he's also been a friend and counselor to his devoted regulars. Now, Cammarata plans to retire, and...  read more

Tales of the Coffin Nail: 27 Smoking Songs That'll leave you Breathless

Aside from that one weekend on the eve of 7th grade, when my parents left me with my older sister, I’ve never been a smoker. When I actually inhaled, it always tore my throat up so bad I couldn’t even finish a whole cigarette. Still, that weekend, a random, inconsequential moment occurred that I still—for some strange reason—remember in astonishing detail.  It was the night before the first day of school—late August 1991 in the Atlanta suburbs—and an intense thunderstorm had just rolled through. My sister was already asleep in her basement apartment, so I took my boombox down to...  read more

Insound Kicks Off 7" Series With Ramones, Replacements

Indie-music retailer Insound just got a little more punk rock. The online store is currently working with record labels to bring back long out-of-print 7" singles....  read more