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I was mostly indifferent to the eight-hour Get Back. Also, compulsory voting is a terrible idea.
Thanks to The Piece Kor, Bel Air, MD will forever be hallowed ground for lovers of extreme teen rock.
The influence of Phun City and the Boundstone School on a number of future punk legends.
More one-offs, oddities, and brilliant singles released by Dome Records in the 1960s.
The Washington Post media columnist takes a brief, and necessary, break from normal duties. If only colleague Dana Milbank would switch from unhinged political treatises to the gardening beat.
The life and losses of Robert Lloyd and the Nightingales.
Leonard Schwab was directly involved with the release of three other landmark 1960s recordings.
I wasn't into Duran Duran when they were popular, but with this one, that's changed.
More manic and moody obscurities from the mid-Atlantic.
In praise of Ellery Eskelin’s The Sun Died.
Concerts may be "back," but everyone is still uptight and anxious, and no one wants to admit it.
In 2021, most are finally on Lil Ugly Mane's miserable wavelength.
Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West and the joy of Western bop.
I always believed in this group.
What does it say about us that our ‘opinion elites’ like that garbage?
In praise of Amphetamine Records, that other Washington label.
I’m too old to give a shit about the Rolling Stones.
The song runs through a holiday roller coaster of emotions.
The late superstar remains an inspiration for future generations.
Alice Cooper, at 74, a born-again Christian and sober, is still touring around the world.
A Splice Today exclusive podcast.
The second single and music video from the band's new album Time Skiffs, out February 4 on Domino Records.
The third of four parts of the Baltimore band's new album.
1978 album by both experimental music legends.
From April 21, 2000, during the tour for Smith's penultimate album, Figure 8.
1973 album by the Japanese composer.
45 minutes from the band recorded last winter.
1978 album by the late American experimental composer.
Full show from when the band was touring for Zen Arcade—and already playing songs from New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig.
VH1's seminal rise and fall show takes on The Monkees.