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Punk Legends X Say Goodbye

After 47 years together, the influential Los Angeles quartet is calling it quits with a final album and a long goodbye tour. What are they feeling in their last days—and what comes next?

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Acoustic Guitarists on the Places That Made Them

Our columnist asks his favorite acoustic players how their hometowns, new and old, have changed the music they make.

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Sheer Mag’s Punk Rock Goes Disco

The Philadelphia band looked back to classic disco and funk grooves to create Playing Favorites, the year’s dirtiest and most danceable power-pop record.

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In Memoriam: Tom Verlaine (1949–2023)

The fiery, incandescent, and visionary guitarist who died on January 28, 2023, helped spark a punk revolution—and then transcended the form entirely.

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Horsegirl’s Sisterhood of Loud

Fueled by youthful bravado and an explosive retro-futuristic sound, this young punk-rock power trio blasts the lid off your expectations with their debut, Versions of Modern Performance.

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Punk Legends X Say Goodbye

After 47 years together, the influential Los Angeles quartet is calling it quits with a final album and a long goodbye tour. What are they feeling in their last days—and what comes next?

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Our columnist asks his favorite acoustic players how their hometowns, new and old, have changed the music they make.

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In Memoriam: Tom Verlaine (1949–2023)

The fiery, incandescent, and visionary guitarist who died on January 28, 2023, helped spark a punk revolution—and then transcended the form entirely.

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Horsegirl’s Sisterhood of Loud

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After 47 years together, the influential Los Angeles quartet is calling it quits with a final album and a long goodbye tour. What are they feeling in their last days—and what comes next?

Our columnist asks his favorite acoustic players how their hometowns, new and old, have changed the music they make.

The Philadelphia band looked back to classic disco and funk grooves to create Playing Favorites, the year’s dirtiest and most danceable power-pop record.

The fiery, incandescent, and visionary guitarist who died on January 28, 2023, helped spark a punk revolution—and then transcended the form entirely.

Fueled by youthful bravado and an explosive retro-futuristic sound, this young punk-rock power trio blasts the lid off your expectations with their debut, Versions of Modern Performance.