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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...


Au Courant

  • Cardinals Masquerade
    Cardinals
    Masquerade

    It’s tempting to compare Cork five-piece Cardinals to Irish luminaries like The Pogues, given the healthy doses of accordion that highlight the band’s Irish...

  • The Beta Band Royale, Boston, October 29
    The Beta Band
    Royale, Boston, October 29

    On their first tour since splitting up in 2004, The Beta Band touched down in Boston late last month. It was hard to know what to expect from the...

  • Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir by Evan Dando
    Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir
    by Evan Dando

    Coincidentally, in tandem with Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando’s new memoir, Rumors of My Demise, I’m also reading David Lee Roth’s 1997 tell-all...

  • Moviola Earthbound
    Moviola
    Earthbound

    Where does Moviola land in 2025? I’d like to think it’s upon a weird road map that connects Columbus, Ohio, (where the band gestated) to somewhere on some...


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 Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Sinclair, Cambridge, September 12
The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Sinclair, Cambridge, September 12

If you’ve ever seen Dig!, the 2004 film that followed the competing trajectories of the Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre...

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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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