Rites of Spring

Axe To Grind break down each half-decade of hardcore with five albums that defined and best represented the era.

Prison is the jammy NYC supergroup that on this album featured Endless Boogie’s Paul Major, Mike Fellows (Rites of Spring, Silver Jews), Sarim Al-Rawi (Liquor Store), Matt Lilly, and the late Sam Jayne.

The University of Maryland has a new online DC punk exhibit, co-curated by John Davis of Q and Not U, with old fliers, zines, photos, and recordings documenting the scene that birthed Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Fugazi, and much more…

Praise and Be Well vocalists Andy Norton and Brian McTernan (the latter of whom co-produced and sang on the Praise record) talk collaborating, shared influences, Revelation Records, Turnstile, and more in our new joint interview…

Rites of Spring finally got the credit they deserve for inventing emo… on ‘Jeopardy!’ last night.

Having spent the last two decades producing classic records by Hot Water Music, Thrice, Strike Anywhere, and more, former Battery frontman makes a triumphant return to songwriting with Be Well…

From Rush to The Damned, from Decline of Western Civilization to ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot,’ here are a baker’s dozen of great rock docs you can stream on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Tubi & other places right now.

Punk the Capital, the 2019 documentary about the early DC punk scene, will be screening around the U.S. this winter and spring, including a few dates with special Q&As…

“From the perspective of that family-sized row house, this film dives back into an array of D.C. area bands of the late 1970’s (Slickee Boys, White Boy…) and looks forward into the growth of DC’s hardcore punk scene of the early 1980’s (Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Faith…)”

Inner Ear’s client list reads like a history of DC punk and indie rock. “You just have to keep on going,” said studio founder Don Zientara.