Earlier this week, The Bad Penny caught up with Joe Love, vocalist/guitarist of brand-new, badass Boston band Merry Brigade, who freshen up grunge-era alt-rock with a modern sound. The quartet — which also features Dave Holmes (guitar/backing vocals), Kevin Delprete (bass) and Ben Chase (drummer) — self-released their debut EP, DDD, in mid-March. After taking that first step, Merry Brigade are moving full-steam ahead, with their first full-length slated to come out later this year and a second LP — which the band is already toiling away at — poised to materialize in 2027.
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Merry Brigade’s Joe Love Took Tips From Soundgarden, David Foster Wallace for His Aspiring (and Inspiring) New Band
Posted in Interviews, The Visionaries, Videos with tags David Foster Wallace, Joe Love, Merry Brigade, Soundgarden on 05/02/2026 by Kurt OrzeckOn Tyranny: Hip-Hop MC TINO Says of His New Trans-Rights Song: ‘[They] Just Want to Be Loved Too’
Posted in Features, Interviews, On Tyranny, On Tyranny, Videos with tags authoritarianism, fascism, free speech, George Floyd, No Kings, protest, TINO, trans, trans rights, tyranny on 04/05/2026 by Kurt Orzeck
No Kings 3, which took place last week and drew an estimated 8 to 9 million participants – exceeding the turnouts of the first two protests – provided more wind in the sails of the pro-democracy movement that is barreling toward a critical juncture at the November midterm elections.
Red-hot MC TINO – who hails from Dayton, Ohio – didn’t make it to the protest. But since the early 2010s, the hip-hop high-achiever has kept his mind trained on educating and galvanizing his audience with socially conscious messages while ensuring his lips are trained on spitting transcendent rhymes.
Continue readingBest New Music Videos (March 2026): Portrayal of Guilt, Robyn Hitchcock, Death Lens, Julez and the Rollerz, More
Posted in Lists, Videos with tags Apolaustic, Death Lens, Frēqs, Julez and the Rollerz, Knumears, Nick Flessa, Portrayal of Guilt, Robyn Hitchcock, Siiickbrain, Yelena Eckemoff on 04/04/2026 by Kurt OrzeckEnjoy The Bad Penny‘s latest roundup of the best music videos that caught our eye last month. And be prepared to be both shocked and awed, as the songs and accompanying imagery run the gamut, to put it mildly.
1. Portrayal of Guilt’s “Object of Pain”
2. The Frēqs’ “John Travolta”
Meet Frontman of ‘Egg-Punk’ Band Tacoblaster in His First Interview With an American Rock Critic
Posted in Interviews, Videos with tags Tacoblaster, Tom Caussade on 02/17/2026 by Kurt OrzeckWhat do exploding tacos, France’s Bordeaux region and a trio of musicians who play so-called “egg punk” music have in common? Well, a five-year-old band called Tacoblaster, of course.
Based in Bordeaux, the project is led by Tom Caussade — for whom the mere word “multi-instrumentalist” doesn’t do justice to the 11 instruments he plays on his band’s just-released fifth album, Digital Fun-Zone! (Howlin Banana Records).
In his first interview with an American music journalist, Caussade recalls how the colorful and wacky band came together, and how he landed on the smile-inducing name for it.
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