In a liquor store where an aspiring drummer is smitten by the girl behind the counter, a robbery begins to unfold. “My band never got together after that night,” writes SW Lauren in “Customer,” confessing that thirty-five years later he […]
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Just over a year ago, I saw The Replacements live for the first time at Forest Hills Stadium. Now that the band has broken up again, presumably forever (although you never know), I wanted to republish this essay about one of the […]
On November 9, singer-songwriter Matthew Ryan served as guest DJ on WYEP-FM’s The Coffeehouse, where he discussed artists and songs that influence or inspire him, as well as his new album, Boxers. As it was also his birthday weekend, he […]
Throughout Paul Westerberg’s career as frontman for garage-pop band the Replacements and then as a solo artist, a sense of childlike fun has more than occasionally infused his songwriting. It should come as no surprise, then, that Westerberg, who has […]
Paul Westerberg really should just go ahead and make an album called Hamlet and get it over with. Going all the way back to the Replacements, Westerberg has spent his career obsessing over commitment issues involving loyalty, romance and fame. […]
Unlike many of his postpunk counterparts, Paul Westerberg never seemed to mind, at least in theory, the idea of writing catchy, perfectly constructed pop songs, and his early solo work (1993’s 14 Songs, a handful of tracks on the Singles […]
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