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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie

by Alison Fields April 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Johnny Rotten, My Mom, and Me

by Sari Botton February 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Johnny Rotten, My Mom, and Me

by Kimberly Mack February 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Johnny Rotten, My Mom, and Me

by Kimberly Mack February 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park

by mabel July 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Mabel Rosenheck looks back at a group of friends, and a music festival on the Jersey Shore, that came along when she needed them most.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park

by mabel July 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Mabel Rosenheck looks back at a group of friends, and a music festival on the Jersey Shore, that came along when she needed them most.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park

by Sari Botton July 28, 2017October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which writer Mabel Rosenheck considers her nostalgia for a key time in her life: the summer of 2003, when she was a young, depressed adult attending the Surf & Skate music festival in Asbury Park with friends in a similar emotional space, whom she’d met on the internet.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

How Temple of the Dog Pioneered a New Genre of Music Videos in the ’90s

by Matt Giles May 9, 2017October 19, 2022

Fronted by Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell, Temple of the Dog was the original rock supergroup. Their music video “Hunger Strike” helped launch a musical movement.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

While They Were Creating the Album, the Beastie Boys Were Also Creating Themselves

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 26, 2017October 19, 2022

A look at how the Beastie Boys invented themselves with their 1992 album Check Your Head.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Strange Women: Vancouver’s Female Punk Visionaries

by Aaron Gilbreath January 12, 2017October 19, 2022

Connie Kuhns’s spotlight on revolutionary female musicians who creates Vancouver’s underground music scene was a National Magazine Award finalist.

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