Box sets of recordings by Cannonball Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Sonny Rollins, Mavis Staples and more have made this spring a bumper harvest for Zev Feldman and Verve Records’ series of musical discoveries.
The D.C. punk five-piece’s debut album uses contemporary cultural references and online language to champion solidarity—while railing against violence, capitalistic parasitism and the gendered normativity of Americana with a clenched fist and an open heart.