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Golomb
The Beat Goes On
Aug 1, 2025 | by | No Comments | Read →

There is simply no local bias anymore. It’s truly exhilarating to see exhilarating music in your region, made blocks from your house, knowing...


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Album Reviews

Golomb
The Beat Goes On
Golomb The Beat Goes On

There is simply no local bias anymore. It’s truly exhilarating to see exhilarating music in your region, made blocks from your house, knowing...

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What’s the Rumpus?

The Mekons
City Winery, Boston, July 16
The Mekons City Winery, Boston, July 16

In their nearly 50 years since forming in Leeds during the punk era of the late '70s, the Mekons have created a cohesive body of work marked by a certain...

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Past Perfect

Smashing Pumpkins
Machina/The Machines of God
Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God

Whatever one’s take on the Smashing Pumpkins’ critically mixed and commercially ignored 1998 album, Adore, it signaled a stylistic fugue for Billy...

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Biblio Files

Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats
by Audrey Golden
Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats by Audrey Golden

For almost 50 years, The Raincoats have had something of a fragmentary existence: forming, disintegrating, and...

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Best of the Year

The Agit Reader Top 10 of 2024
The Agit Reader Top 10 of 2024

Here’s our annual look back at the best album from the past year, albeit in a less in-depth form than past years. In general, 2024 was a particularly strong year for music...

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