Naked Raygun

The album will arrive this August, and the band confirmed that it was recorded with bassist Pierre Kezdy before his passing.

This week's playlist includes new music by Fiona Apple, Foxing, The Armed, Tirzah, Quicksand, Cory Hanson, Lucy Dacus, MIKE, Jose Gonzalez, Liz Phair, Greentea Peng, Lambchop, and more.

The highly influential Chicago punk band's new album is set to arrive this spring via legendary Chicago label Wax Trax! Records.

The band have been talking about a new album since 2016, and now they've signed to Wax Trax and are promising to release it this spring.

The massively influential Chicago punk bassist has lost a battle to cancer at age 58.

Touch and Go and Quarterstick's rosters include Slint, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Jesus Lizard, Mekons, Naked Raygun, TV on the Radio, Brainiac, Calexico, Big Black and tons more.

”The five of us talk about what kind of influences and sounds we want to incorporate. We end up sharing and talking about so much different music over our group texts or in the van... this playlist is some of those songs, some classics and just some recent great tracks we’ve been digging...”

Listen to new songs by A Certain Ratio, Metronomy (Kero Kero Bonito remix), Greentea Peng, Protoje/Popcaan, Naked Raygun's Jeff Pezzati, and more.

Like grunge, the '90s pop punk boom was the culmination of a sound that had been bubbling up for over a decade. For this edition of his edition of 'In Defense of the Genre,' I look back on 15 classic '80s albums that shaped that sound...

The Lawrence Arms' first album in six years a graceful late-career album that stands tall next to their classics. Brendan and Chris talk to us about the writing and recording processes, meanings behind some of the songs, influences on the album, and more...