Tag: The Replacements

Blue Ox 2025 Artist Preview: Pert Near Sandstone

Next week, Eau Claire, Wisconsin music festival Blue Ox makes its return for its 11th edition with another fantastic lineup from top to bottom....

X – Smoke & Fiction (2024) Album Review

Hello Reader, Welcome back. Or if this is your first time here, welcome! Today we're going to delve into X. That's right the one and only...

Artist Essay: How the Replacements Shaped Swerve’s Identity By Greg Mahdesian

How could I pass up this opportunity to wax lyrical about the Replacements? When we released our debut album, Ruin Your Day, the press...

Artist Essay: Pert Near Sandstone’s “High and Lonesome” Version of “Can’t Hardly Wait” By Nate Sipe

Allow me to speak in the spirit of cheap hotel room mumblings after two weeks on tour, stuck in transit, almost back home. Aftershow...

SWT’s Best 50 Albums of 2023 (Josh’s List)

Hello Reader, Welcome back. With only a few days to go in 2023, it’s important to take a step back and reflect on this past year,...

SWT’s Best 50 Albums of 2023 (Alex’s List)

Hello Reader, If this is your first time the site, and you came because you like album lists, welcome. I am cognizant that many sites...

SWT’s Best of the Best Albums of 2023 That I Didn’t Review: Alex’s List (Top 39)

Hello Reader, Welcome back. For the 16 albums and one EP review that I was grateful enough to write about, there were dozens more that I...

Influential Book: Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad

Kudos to a person I didn't know in a sports forum, in the post dial-up internet era, for recommending Michael Azerrad's brilliant Our Band Could...

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