Checking in with the excellent Detroit postpunk band Protomartyr.

Jazmine Hughes has an excellent essay at The New Republic on race and comedy.

Maura Johnston has put together an oral history of “More Than Words.”

Kevin Sampsell has a new column up at The Rumpus.

Jenn Northington wrote about feminism in the comics Bitch Planet and ODY-C.

Zachary Lipez talked with the Mexican punk label Cintas Pepe.

At Slate: a review of Robert Repino’s novel Mort(e).

The full catalog of Brian Eno’s Obscure Records is now online.

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