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Loren
Editor in Chief
Minneapolis
Loren's last content update – April 26, 2018, 8:17 a.m.
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Loren's most recent reviews
Cheap Tissue
Cheap Tissue , 2018
LA’s Cheap Tissue bill themselves as rough around the edges garage punk, namedropping melodic yet understated groups like Radioactivity. While the general sound isn’t too far off the mark, the band’s ...
High Priests
Spinning, 2018
When I first saw High Priests 3 or 4 years ago, I would have labeled them as stoner punk. While their press photos certainly still hit on that imagery, I’m ...
Shame
Songs of Praise, 2018
Shame seems to have captured some buzz. They’ve had several clips in big UK publications and their debut was issued on Dead Oceans here in the States. The band plays ...
Dean Ween Group
Rock 2, 2018
I generally shy away from track-by-track reviews, because they get long, boring and kind of miss the point of an album as a whole anyway. That said, whenever I write ...
Loren's most recent features
One Question Interviews Yo No Say
Posted April 24, 2018, 5:52 a.m.Daniel Feldman (Yo No Say) SPB: What is the worst stereotype you encounter when people find out you’re in a band? Daniel: To be honest people are generally pretty ...
One Question Interviews Forêt Endormie
Posted April 24, 2018, 5:50 a.m.Jordan Guerette (Forêt Endormie) SPB: Who is your favorite 1990s artist? Jordan: Among the hundreds of artists that I continue to cherish from the 1990s, if I must choose ...
One Question Interviews The Mons
Posted April 24, 2018, 5:48 a.m.Karl Eifrig (The Mons) SPB: What was the first punk show you attended? Karl: The first punk show I attended was February 28, 1986 at Cabaret Metro (now just Metro ...
One Question Interviews Bison
Posted April 1, 2018, 4:36 a.m.James Farwell (Bison) SPB: Can you enjoy a musician’s work if you when you disagree with their politics? Are you able to make the separation? James: I generally separate ...
Loren's most recent news stories
Records SPB exclusive: R.I.P. Clearance Event by The Sueves
Out this Friday, March 30, The Sueves return with their second full-length LP, R.I.P. Clearance Event. The Chicago band play gritty and enthusiastic punk-fueled r’n’r, steeped ...
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Videos SPB premiere: "This Exists" by Tongue Party
Posted April 26, 2018, 8:17 a.m.
SPB is sharing a brand new video from Tongue Party. Taken from their soon to release album Looking for a Painful Death, the song “This Exists” is a three-minute blast ...
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Records Don't Worry to release new album on Specialist Subject
Posted April 21, 2018, 10:49 a.m.
After self-releasing a series of EPs and touring throughout the UK, Don't Worry have joined with Specialist Subject to release Who Cares Anyway? -- their first full-length, which will release ...
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Bands Immersion album in June (Wire)
Posted April 21, 2018, 10:03 a.m.
Duo Immersion, featuring Wire Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal COmpact), will release Sleepless on June 15t via swim~. To announced the record, their first since Analogue Creatures Living ...
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Loren's most recent blogposts
Triple Rock - Last Show Ever
Posted Nov. 22, 2017, 7:28 p.m. by Loren
Dillinger Four, Negative Approach, Kitten Forever, Victory, The Slow Death Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN November 22, 2017 I usually try to keep show reviews to the point: Here’s ...Descendents @ First Avenue
Posted Sept. 21, 2016, 9:21 p.m. by Loren
Descendents, Modern Life Is War, Color TV First Avenue Minneapolis, MN September 15, 2016 The only people luckier than those who get to see the Descendents are those who get ...Fat Wrecked 25 @ The Myth
Posted Sept. 2, 2015, 9:32 p.m. by Loren
NOFX, Lagwagon, Dillinger Four, Strung Out, Swingin' Utters, The Flatliners, Masked Intruder, toyGuitar, Bad Cop/Bad Cop The Myth Maplewood, MN August 28, 2015 No review, see photo gallery ...Radioactivity @ Triple Rock
Posted July 29, 2015, 8:55 p.m. by Loren
Radioactivity, Birthday Suits, Butcher’s Union Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN July 22, 2015 It’s nice to live in a city where some great out of town bands have ...Loren's bio
I started writing for the site in early 2008. I also work for a publishing company and do freelance writing on the side. I occasionally use the twitter here: https://twitter.com/lorenmgreen.
Loren's favorite bands
Dillinger Four, Arrivals, Brokedowns, Tim Version, Weakerthans, Broadways, The Blind Shake, Tiltwheel, Fugazi
Loren's SPB contributions
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