Douglas Martin examines whether or not Dirty Shoes all-stars Thee Oh Sees are still the best live act around.
A powerful elegy to the late revolutionary, Black Panther, and mother of Tupac, Afeni Shakur.
Dirty Shoes returns with a look at the excellent trio of records from new punk staples Sheer Mag.
| All Praise Be to the Flygod: Westside Gunn is Back Again | April 21, 2016 |
Douglas Martin breaks down Flygod, the great new record from Buffalo native Westside Gunn.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Cindy Lee in a Post-Women World | January 21, 2016 |
Douglas Martin looks at Cindy Lee, the new project from former Women member Patrick Flegel.
| In the Streets Like Ron O’Neal: Ka’s Superfly Single | January 19, 2016 |
Brownsville champion Ka returns with the perfectly minimalistic "30 Keys."
| David Bowie Tribute: “Space Oddity” by Douglas Martin | January 12, 2016 |
Passion of the Weiss takes the week to celebrate the life and mourn the death of David Bowie.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Dirty 30 of 2015 | December 16, 2015 |
Douglas Martin: the only one you can trust with this.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Parquet Courts’ Monastic Living | December 2, 2015 |
Why the new Parquet Courts EP fails to live up to the band's high standards.
The Seattle garage-punks return with a swift lively and funny album. But there’s also growing restlessness in their approach to songwriting, trying out new methods and seeing what works for them
