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Featured, MusicJanuary 2, 2023

Jeffrey Lewis: Singing Historian

Renaissance Man may be an overused label, but it fits Jeffrey Lewis — snug but comfortable, like those old T-shirts he wears in Youtube videos that have him singing the histories of Chinese Communism and New York punk

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Featured, MusicDecember 21, 2022

The Year in Music: DailyKemp’s Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2022

These 10 albums, the best of them conceptual works, were my personal favorites in 2022.

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Featured, Music, News & CultureSeptember 14, 2022

North Carolina Hardcore: Paradise Lost

It seemed ironic to me that two of the loudest, most prolific, and most politically vocal bands on North Carolina’s so-called new music scene of the mid-1980s represented a silent minority, shunned as if they were the black sheep of the South’s new musical family.

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Featured, News & CultureJuly 26, 2022

The Coup: Sorry to Bother You

This Oakland outfit continues to create danceable manifestos for the masses: “I got scars on my back, the truth on my tongue,” front man Boots Riley raps. “Tell Homeland Security we are the bomb.”

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Featured, MusicJuly 17, 2022

Death: For the Whole World…

Death was just another African-American R&B act from Detroit before the Stooges and the MC5 changed their lives

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Featured, Music, News & CultureJanuary 6, 2022

TV on the Radio: We’re an American Band

With the recent election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, TV on the Radio may have been the most American band making music in 2008. Little did we know then that the country would face a vicious and sustained backlash that continues to threaten our democracy.

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FeaturedNovember 26, 2021

The Sonics: How to Lead a Punk-Rock Double Life

When mild-mannered Rob Lind isn’t on the links at Birkdale Golf Club near his home in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, he’s onstage with his legendary garage-rock band The Sonics

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Featured, MusicDecember 30, 2018

Folk You! (The Early Days of Antifolk)

In the mid-1980s a ragtag group of folk musicians led by the one-named singer-songwriter Lach, along with Roger Manning, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Kirk Kelly, Michelle […]

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MusicApril 25, 2015

Meat Puppets: There’s No Business Like Show Business

Less than a year after the suicide death of Kurt Cobain, I saw one of his favorite bands, Meat Puppets, perform at a big Christmas […]

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MusicJanuary 13, 2014

The Ballad of Wreckless and Amy: A Punk-Rock Love Story

Ever had a YouTube rabbit-hole experience? Sure you have. I had one tonight that warmed the icy punk-rock part of my heart. You know the […]

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