“It's not apathy, but Modern Hut's Joe Steinhardt does not craft the sort of acoustic punk songs that want to protest something, necessarily. A 29-year-old Ph.D. candidate in Ithaca, N.Y., Steinhardt's sharp, emo-tinged lyrics relate critical observations with a searingly skeptical ear. But there's a downcast, detached grace to the narrative driven "History"; he sounds less interested in reforming ”
