Music - May 25, 2006
"We Jam Econo" rekindles The Minutemen's fire
In the early 1980s, there was no American band that could touch The Minutemen. Like fellow Californians The Circle Jerks, the trio said what it had to say with lightning-fast speed, if not usually with musical precision. But unlike most other bands, The Minutemen actually had something to say.
Tags: We Jam Econo, Minutemen, D. Boon, Mike Watt, Firehose, George Hurley

Music - July 14, 2005
Long-awaited Die Kreuzen tribute arrives
"Man, there was a point there when Die Kreuzen were the best band in the USA." And so Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore describes Milwaukee's seminal hardcore band Die Kreuzen in his liner notes for the long-awaited, "'Lean Into It.' A Tribute to Die Kreuzen," on Appleton's Erosion Records.
Tags: Die Kreuzen, Kubinski, Brammer, Tunison, Egeness, Decapitado, Erosion, Voivoid, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Mike Watt, Firehose, Minutemen, Clitboys