“This past January, I was one of a few hundred lucky individuals jammed into the sweaty confines of the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, checking out a triple bill of excellent bands: local roof-raisers Cracktorch, jazz-rockers Karate, and the indomitable Dismemberment Plan. About halfway through their set, the Plan stopped for a brief break between songs and Travis Morrison, eve”
“Those who refuse to learn from rock history are doomed to watch its repetition in kicky fad form, its intentions misunderstood and its inheritors mutated beyond recognition. So little wonder that D.C.’s hardcore muse and former minuteman Ian MacKaye bears the punk-rock torch with sometimes missionary zeal. The Argument, Fugazi’s eighth album, is a bracing […]”
