Kevin Warwick
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Past articles by Kevin:
The Story of the DIY Publication That Kept Bands on the Road for Decades
How 'Book Your Own Fuckin' Life' helped countless punk bands tour in the pre-internet era. → Read More
Chicago postpunks Facs cut their last tether
Chicago postpunks Facs inherited members from Disappears, but for the new Lifelike they’ve found the personnel and the sound to become a self-contained band. → Read More
On his new Fountain Fire, guitarist Bill MacKay follows his own wandering direction
Like many avant-garde-leaning guitarists, Bill MacKay exudes the spirit of a wandering player walking the earth, at peace with pulling up a rickety stool and... → Read More
Less club-ready than Body Talk, Honey shows why Robyn remains a global dance-pop star
There’s never much debate about whether or not a new Robyn album is a party—it’s rather about what kind of party it is. With her... → Read More
Nevermind the bullshit analysis, Cherry Glazerr rocks on Stuffed & Ready
Cherry Glazerr are a rock band. Now, you can go and split that hair a thousand different ways—comparing them to a predictable string of women-fronted groups that were popular in the 90s or acknowledging that their not-so-delicate balance of styles is two parts vintage this and one part modern that, among other critiques. → Read More
New chapter, same narrator: Sharon Van Etten is better than ever on Remind Me Tomorrow
It’s been nearly five years since Sharon Van Etten released Are We There―which means it’s also been nearly five years without that voice. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter has long possessed the secret power to sound woefully resigned to the poetic drudgery of life while simultaneously prophetic in her realization of that. → Read More
The songs on MØ’s Forever Neverland are mostly club bangers—and that’s just fine
After my first listen to last year's, Forever Neverland (Columbia), the latest full-length from Danish singer-songwriter MØ I realized that I had stumbled into a bizarre experiment. When I listened to the electro-pop album on Spotify, I hardly noticed the typically disruptive between-song ads (no, I don’t have a Spotify subscription—what of it?). → Read More
This New Year’s Eve, raise a plastic champagne glass to Bully and the glory of guitar rock
On Bully’s second full-length record, Losing (released late last year on Sub Pop), vocalist and guitarist Alicia Bognanno doesn’t fuck around. As suggested by its... → Read More
Double Ferrari’s instrumental riff-rock cuts through thanks to their metal edge
Instrumental guitar rock does not need to brood. It does not need to swoosh, swirl, ache, or throb. → Read More
How Logan Arcade got its Misfits-playing robot dogs
The Biscuits began life as decrepit Chuck E. Cheese animatronics in the collection of Logan Arcade proprietor James Zespy—and now they're lean, mean horror-punk machines. → Read More
The perfect storm, or the two weeks in October when sports are king
Chicago's fall frenzy makes fairweather fandom fun. → Read More
Jessica Hopper’s memoir Night Moves pays homage to a bygone era in Chicago—the aughts
On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle. → Read More
What to see at the 2018 World Music Festival
It’s enlisted a crowd of international talents for its 21 free concerts—among them hallucinatory Argentine singer-songwriter Juana Molina, generation-spanning Cuban big band Orquesta Akokán, and omnivorous Congolese groove machine Jupiter & Okwess. → Read More
With Sorpresa Familia, Mourn have made their most fearless—but still fun—record thus far
Sure, finding the sweet spot between dark postpunk, triumphant indie rock, sweeping posthardcore, and fierce hardcore punk seems easy, but young Spanish quartet Mourn do it with impressive poise. Their new full-length, Sorpresa Familia (Captured Tracks), is the most spirited record they’ve released to date. → Read More
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs return with a deluxe vinyl reissue of their acclaimed debut, Fever to Tell
Within an hour of first seeing the music video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs single “Maps” on MTV (on MTV, I said!), I stood up, walked to my car, and drove to a record store to buy their 2003 full-length debut, Fever to Tell. I can’t remember ever having done that before or since. → Read More
Frankie Cosmos delivers another aching, poignant record of two-minute indie-pop songs
And just like that, Frankie Cosmos—otherwise known as Greta Kline, and otherwise tied to an obligatory footnote, given that her parents are Phoebe Cates and... → Read More
Hardcore throwdown the Rumble returns after five years, picking up the change where it left off
The Rumble comes to Cobra Lounge on April 27 and 28, with sets by Incendiary, Wisdom in Chains, Strife, Racetraitor, Nine Eyes, Spine, and many more. → Read More
An epic quest to skateboard from Chicago to New York hits the screen in Shred America
Arthur Swidzinski and Mike Kosciesza planned to document their adventure, but never thought it would take ten years. → Read More
Everything Is Terrible! plumb the depths of hell in The Great Satan
Film clips prove “Satan is a total loser, and he knows it.” → Read More
Punishing Texas death-metal band Mammoth Grinder return with Cosmic Crypt, their first full-length in five years
Lordy. As if last year’s Power Trip record, Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord), wasn’t enough of a super boon from the Texas-born purveyors of pummeling thrash metal, this January we were blessed with Mammoth Grinder’s Cosmic Crypt (Relapse)—the Austin band’s first full-length in five years. → Read More