I Am the Avalanche - The Horror Show (Equal Vision Records) ★★★★☆ There's a version of this review where I tell you to just go listen to the record. That version is probably the correct one. But here we are, so let me try to explain why The Horror Show hit me the way it did, which is to say: hard, and somewhere in the chest, and more than once on a Tuesday morning when I had no business feeling anything at all. Twenty-two years in. Think about that. Vinnie Caruana has been do

There’s a certain kind of reverence you have to bring when you touch a song like “Left of the Dial.” It’s not just another track, it’s a cornerstone of underground radio culture, a love letter to the fringes, and one of The Replacements’ most enduring anthems. So when The Young Hearts stepped up to take it on, the question wasn’t why? It was how? They’ve answered that now. The Young Hearts have released their take on “Left of the Dial,” and instead of trying to outdo the orig

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