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Eric Blum, DEVO in their signature hazmat suits, 1978.

Mark Mothersbaugh’s Singular Artistic Vision

Plenty of the Devo star's weird work is now on view at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.
By David D'Arcy
Joe Carducci.

From Running SST Records to ‘Stone Male’: The Journey of Joe Carducci

“It was an ordeal to say, ‘I have to see Black Flag, but I’m exhausted from Flipper.’ ”
By Brad Cohan
Ringo.

Here’s Everything Wrong With The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016

Let’s get this out of the way: Kid Rock inducting Cheap Trick into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sadder than a sick child telling the Make-A-Wish foundation, “Oh, I don’t need anything. Soon I’ll get to meet the Von Erich family up in heaven.”
By Tim Sommer
Tor Miller

The Best New York Artists Playing SXSW Music Festival 2016

By Rob LeDonne
Yuna

The Best Songs You Missed Last Week: Kendrick Lamar, Yuna & Usher, More

By Ilana Kaplan
Siamese

The Songs and Shows You Can’t Afford to Miss This Spring

By Cole Garner Hill

David Bowie: Benefactor

By John Sharples

Dilly Dally’s Sore Grunge and Healing Pop

By Lisa Brown

The Mesmerizing Goth Pop of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Psychocandy’

By Justin Joffe

Chris Cornell, ‘the Architect of Grunge,’ Embraces His Past

By Katherine Turman

The Unbearable Whiteness of Soft Rock

By Preston Jones

How to Save Your Record Label

By Tim Sommer
(Screengrab: Indiegogo)

How 3D Printing Is Changing the Guitar Forever

By Sage Lazzaro

Heartworm Press Finds Poetry Beneath the Noise

By Justin Joffe
(Justin Joffe for Observer)

Afropunk, Sponsored by Dr. Martens, Coors and Social Activism

By Justin Joffe

The Quest for Fire Music: Documenting the Free Jazz Revolution

By Brad Cohan
Morus Alba

A Music Scene Grows in Jersey

By Eli Zeger

The Nostalgic Allure of ‘Synthwave’

By Julia Neuman

Searching for American DIY at Gigawatts Fest

By Justin Joffe

The Man Who Sells Brooklyn Cool

By Jillian Scheinfeld

The Best NY Experimental Records of 2015 (So Far)

By Eli Zeger

Decline of Western Civilization’s Penelope Spheeris on Documenting the Misunderstood

By Katherine Turman

The Best Songs of 2015 (So Far)

By Rob LeDonne

For Your (Re)Consideration: Defining Punk and the Total Genius of the Saints

By Tim Sommer
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