The Replacements

Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from Season Two of “The Bear”

September 11, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

There was an Essentials feature on season 1 of Hulu’s hit TV series “The Bear” posted back in June (2025). Much has changed leading into season 2. Picking up seemingly days after the first season’s end, […]

Book Review: Peter Jesperson “Euphoric Recall”

September 16, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Music industry memoirs tend to fall into a pattern. Following the record/tour/record treadmill is almost inevitable for an artist, which means that often the best books come from those who stand outside the band, but still […]

Shuffle: Now that’s what I call 1984

April 14, 2022 David Cowling 0

Every so often a Minutemen track will turn up on my iPod and it will rekindle my love for the San Pedro trio and I’ll just have to have another listen to ‘Double Nickels on the […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Replacements “Swingin’ Party”

April 5, 2022 Cam Fraser 2

Where better to look for a suitable link to Alex Chilton’s ‘No Sex’ than from a band that wrote a homage to him in one of their best-loved songs. And where better to go when feeling […]

Classic Americana Compilations: Various Artists “Songs for Slim: Rockin’ Here Tonight – A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap” (New West Records, 2013)

July 28, 2020 Steven Rafferty 3

If you remember the 1980s – and I can think of several reasons why you wouldn’t, not the least of which is the ever-expanding possibility that you weren’t even alive yet – then you probably remember […]