Decoy is back with WASTOIDS Music News, where he drops a heap of music stories on you. We're brought to you by Hello Merch, which allows bands to make whatever merch they can dream up—like deathdrinks, a cocktail recipe book companion to Survival Guide's

Previous Industries is an indie rap trio featuring Chicagoans Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, and STILL RIFT. Their debut Service Merchandise (Merge Records) pairs sly and hilariously heartbreaking musings with laidback beats by Child Actor, Quelle Chris, a

You know the Sex Pistols for their album Never Mind the Bollocks..., but the subsequent soundtrack to their 1978 film The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle was just as good! Marc and John dig into a 7-inch from that album, "No One is Innocent" b/w "My Way," explo

In the world of cult bands, Memphis power pop band Big Star reigns mythically. And while the former teen heartthrob Alex Chilton might be the first member who springs to mind, guitarist and songwriter Chris Bell figures heavily in the band's tragic saga.

When you think of Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips, you probably don't think of singles. They're mostly known as an album rock bandand they already had three full-lengths out by the time they released their first 7-inch, part of the nascent Sub Pop Singles

This is the Band Shirt Day Podcast. In this episode, Dylan Gette King and Jason P. Woodbury share band shirt stories from Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers who describes the torn and frayed charm of his favorite Minor Threat shirt, pilfered fr

This week on the news, Decoy says HELLLLLLO to Sleater-Kinney. Formed in Olympia in 1994, Sleater-Kinney was one of the defining bands of the riot grrrl movement. After releasing seven studio records, the band entered a hiatus in 2005 but returned with fu

In the late '70s, The Specials took the UK by storm with their hybrid of punk and reggae and an explicit anti-racist stance. A few years later, the band was coming apartbut not before they made an amazing final 7", the chart-topping, zeitgeist-capturing

On one hand, a band shirt is a simple everyday item, the kind of thing you might take for granted. But when you start thinking about it, the topic encompasses so much more: band shirts help us tell stories about ourselves and what music means to us. And t

Nada Surf may have broken in the '90s with the sardonic mega-hit "Popular," but songwriter Matthew Caws isn't big on living in the past. On the band's new album, Moon Mirror, out September 13th from New West Records, he sets his sights on the present mome