Each week, our Box Populi Subscriber Spotlight takes us inside the record collection of one of our valued subscribers. For this second installment, we asked OG Bandbox subscriber Kevin from Colorado a little bit about his personal stash!
When Waxahatchee’sSaint Cloud was released on March 27, it was impossible for Katie Crutchfield to know just how comforting her latest creation would become. The fifth Waxahatchee LP was introduced to the world on time. Or, more accurately, it was offered to us just in the nick of time.
Forget about full albums - what's Ride's best EP? What's the most shoegaze-y album that fellow Oxford exports Radiohead have made? All of these questions and more are answered by Bandbox's Alex Rice and Seth Lichtenstein in the Ride episode of Fan Talks!
The Man in Black. The man who had a thousand violent criminals eating out of the palm of his hand at Folsom. The man who basically told Richard Nixon to fuck himself at a White House summit for prison reform. The man who was terrified to go onstage in front of 250 people.
In this zine excerpt, founding New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook gives Bandbox’s Alex Rice the skinny on the contentious, debaucherous and expensive recording process of his second iconic band’s defining artistic achievement, 1989’s Technique.
With an average of over two records per year to his iconic name, few modern musicians have been as prolific as Willie Nelson. That large quantity, while admirable, isn’t what’s most impressive about the Willie discography. His consistently high level of quality is what’s truly astonishing.
Each week, our Box Populi Subscriber Spotlight takes us inside the record collection of one of our valued subscribers. For this first installment, we asked our second-ever subscriber, Chet from Portland, OR, a little bit about his personal stash!
Is Weezer a great band that sometimes makes bad music or a bad band that sometimes makes great music? What's their most underrated tune? All of these questions and more are answered by Bandbox's Alex Rice and Seth Lichtenstein in the Weezer episode of Fan Talks!
Arctic Monkeys' 2005 debut was named album of the year by both Time and NME. By the end of its campaign, Arctic Monkeys were billed second on their day of Reading and Leeds. Just think if Alex Turner and Jamie Cook had gotten Xboxes - instead of guitars - for Christmas.
Wilco’s Stars Wars came out of nowhere in July 2015, bookending the longest studio hiatus of the alt-country collective’s career. The album appeared without warning as a free download on the band's website one unassuming summer morning, begging the question: Why?
Original Weezer guitarist Jason Cropper on writing the iconic intro to “My Nameis Jonas,” recording The Blue Album in New York City with Ric Ocasek, exitingthe band after the sessions and reuniting with Rivers for a pair of concerts in 2018.
On March 17, a Washington state public health office was notified that members of a choir turned sick after a rehearsal. The CDC hypothesized that the act of singing might have accelerated this event, which already qualified as a superspreader. It turns out they were right.
