“

These self-depreciating, suburban white guys in ripped jeans are about as different as you can get from big, tough, black rappers from the projects, but both genres reproduce harmful ideas about women and relationships.

“

My friend Michele is over. She is searching through our CDs and looking for songs to download to her iPod.

“

BrandNewBrandNew music.

“

In a world where it’s so easy to bow to the pressures of society and look, act and talk in a way that is considered “normal” at that time, it’s nice to know if you don’t want to be exactly like that, you don’t have to be.

“

Tired of people telling you, “Punk is dead”? Well, now you can explain to them why it’s not.

“

Go jump in that mosh pit.

“

In “Dream Closets,” I’ll be documenting my favorite closets around New York and the personalities behind each of them.

“

The eyeliner fades. The songs stick. Long live 2007.

“

Now that it’s nearly a decade in our rearview, we’ve begun to get a glimpse of what’s got longevity; namely, what songs are really good at encapsulating the weird time that was the mid-2000s.

“

The music begins now, and it seems connected to “bad things” in my hometown: drinking, smashing pumpkins – before I knew about Smashing Pumpkins – and being mean to teachers. My mom is a teacher.