Few names in pop music inspire the kind of polarizing, passionate responses as John Lydon's. He kicked his way into the public consciousness with the Sex Pistols in the '70s: He was featured in the British tabloids as frequently as members of the royal family, angry protesters hung on his every curse word, his words [...]

On first listen, Mi Ami's sophomore album, Steal Your Face (Thrill Jockey), seems to begin where last year's Watersports left off—quite literally. "Harmonics (Genius Of Love)" practically kicks off midstream, with guitarist and vocalist Daniel Martin-McCormick's frantic yelps hitting a histrionic high pitch at the song's start. If Watersports had been a double album, the C-side [...]

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A sugary sweet cover of a snarling punk anthem is by no means a new concept. But Nouvelle Vague's version of the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk to Fuck" is anything but your run-of-the-mill makeover.