DS Gallery: Dynamic Duos Death From Above 1979 & Teen Mortgage Electrify Stage Together (Metro, Chicago, 11/7/24)
This year Chicago has had a powerhouse of concerts; OFF!’s farewell show, the Jigsaw Youth/Bob Vylan combo and Knocked Loose, just to name a few. Adding to the list is the absolutely magnetic combination of garage punkers Teen Mortgage and noise-dance-punk legends Death From Above 1979 at Chicago’s Metro. Teen Mortgage is the two-piece garage-punk […]
DS Interview: Chuck Ragan on the eight year journey to “Love And Lore”
Imagine it’s early 2016 and you’re Chuck Ragan. You’ve just put out your latest studio record, a unique release called The Flame In The Flood. It not only serves as the soundtrack to the 2017 video game of the same name, but it’s also your fifth solo record in less than ten years, and you […]
Dying Scene Album Review: Fear – “The Last Time”
Fear has released their final album, “The Last Time,” on Atom Age Industries. Lee Ving and crew present us with an album that takes risks but still feels like the band we know and love. With it’s dirty guitars and razor sharp lyrics, the main themes of most Fear albums are intact: fucking, fighting, and […]
Dying Scene Book Club – “This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB” by Roman Kozak
Roma Kozak’s This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB was originally released in 1988 and was one of the first books documenting the scene at CBGB’s in New York. Located in the Bowery, the oldest street in Manhattan, CBGB’s time may have been brief in comparison to its location’s history but Kozak’s book shows […]
DS Interview: John “Jughead” Pierson on his Fictional Band Semi-Famous, Brought to Life with the New Full-Length “Destroy Ourselves”
John “Jughead” Pierson, known most prominently, alongside Ben Weasel, as a founding member of Screeching Weasel, has reentered the so-called punk rock spotlight through his new band Semi-Famous. First devised as the fictious subject of Pierson’s not-so-fictitious novel Weasels in a Box, Semi-Famous has been brought to life by the release of Destroy Ourselves, a […]