Amyl and The Sniffers
Creator archive / 5 posts
Music League: Bangers
Songs you have to play loudly
- The Comet Is Coming: Space Carnival
I’ve scarcely seen a more apt song title. If Sun Ra had directed Star Wars, maybe the cantina band would have sounded like this. - Amyl and The Sniffers: Hertz
Amy Taylor’s furious joie de vivre is among my favorite punk rock paradoxes. My favorite Aussies are the real-life Mad Max freaks.
Amyl and The Sniffers
Some stray notes:
- Upchuck’s frontwoman is a powerful performer, but part of her schtick is taking swigs of water or beer and spraying them from her mouth onto the audience. Punk rock abandon or not, I’m astonished anyone doesn’t understand how the events of the past two years have made that kind of behavior 1,000 percent unacceptable.
- Not to say any of their songs are bad, but Amyl and the Sniffers’ set list made me… See more →
That Was 2021
The highlights and lowlights of another pandemic year
Let me begin by saying I promise this post is mostly good vibes. Skip ahead if you like, but if you’ll momentarily indulge my pessimism: What a stupid time to be alive.
2021 was supposed to be the year the vaccine gave us our lives back, and while it did for some of us to some degree, its international distribution predictably favored wealthy nations, and the long-simmering anti-vax movement here in the wealthiest nation of… See more →
Comfort To Me
