This Week in Posivibes
Still Single published this gleaming review of GG King’s Unending Darkness, and if you haven’t heard of the Atlanta-based punk project yet, it’s worth a read. If the review piques your interest like it...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: A Wailing of a Town
Inspired by the books Please Kill Me and We Got the Neutron Bomb, Craig Ibarra began compiling the 70+ interviews that make up this self-declared oral history of San Pedro’s punk scene from 1977–1985....
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Tom Diabo Dark Star Reissue
Enthusiasm has been gathering for today’s reissue of Tom Diabo’s Dark Star, written from 1979–86 as the German post-punk artist first recuperated from, and then sadly finally died of, cancer. The...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Mykki Blanco
If you haven’t benefited from the challenging force that is Mykki Blanco, that’s a problem that should be corrected. Blanco spoke out last week about the division being created by the #AllLivesMatter...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Destroy All Art
This compilation of ’90s DIY punk put out by Rock N’ Roll Parasite is the kind of well-curated survey of a time that we hope all comps will be. The bands on the record aren’t the ones you might think...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Unwound
Numero Group is re-releasing the Olympia trio’s final two albums in a 4-LP box set. Empire combines the band’s incredible final album, Leaves Turn Inside You (2001), alongside Challenge for a Civilized...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: The Zion Travelers
Aquarium Drunkard has unearthed another incredible rerelease in 1996’s The Dootone Masters from Ace Records. Based in the LA area for over two decades, The Zion Travelers put out their first record on...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: The Mantles
The Mantles have been a significant fixture in San Francisco’s music since 2007, and their recent release, All Odds End out on the Bay’s Slumberland Records, is their third full length album in the...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Little Simz
When Kendrick Lamar says you “might be the illest doing it now,” people take note, not that Little Simz necessarily needs the help—her debut A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons is full of tracks that...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: The Chills
New Zealand’s The Chills just released their first album since 1996, and it’s brilliant. Coming up alongside The Clean and The Bats, The Chills are the kind of band that is incredible, important, and...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Will Ivy
Will Ivy’s first solo 7” came out on Pretty Penny this weekend, with a release show at LA’s HM157. Most recently of Dream Boys, Ivy has played in a number of great SF groups, including Girls and Hunx...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: The Female Rock Memoir
In a piece on the explosion of female-written music memoir, Guardian writer Jude Rogers explores what it means for there to be a redress of the idea of rock being historically told through the lens of...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Wild Nothing
Jack Tatum has announced that the next Wild Nothing album, Life of Pause, will be coming out February 19th. The artist has released two tracks thus far, “To Know You” and “TV Queen,” both available to...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Gloria Ann Taylor
Ubiquity’s Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing reissue collects some incredible soulful, experimental R&B from Gloria Ann Taylor’s early years, rare tracks that were released during her time with the small...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Ty-Rex
Super-prolific Ty Segall has released another record: a compilation of T. Rex covers that he put out over the years under the name Ty-Rex. The compilation includes a new version of “20th Century Boy”...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Édith Piaf
This past Saturday marked Édith Piaf’s centenary. To honor the seminal French artist’s memory, the Guardian published a piece on her life, career, and music as they helped to define French music in the...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: One More (Great) List
Aquarium Drunkard put out their list of 2015 favorites and like many things they do, it’s pretty comprehensive, respectable, and a great way to catch great music that you’ve missed. Included in the...
View ArticleHip-Hop to Watch in 2016
Dazed Digital compiled a list of emerging hip-hop artists to watch, including Jay Boogie (think Mykki Blanco and the early 2000s), Tommy Genesis (on Awful Records, she describes her sound as “fetish...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Bowie’s Blackstar
Before news hit about David Bowie’s passing, we had planned a post about the posivibes his most recent album, Blackstar, had received from the media. Although there is so much more to talk about in the...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Jermaine Bossier and the 79rs Gang
The incredible imagery and music produced by Indian Mardi Gras gangs is both totally mind-blowing and, unfortunately, easy to miss. Lucky for us, Aquarium Drunkard’s done some work to correct the...
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