I bought my first copy of Let It Be when I was 15 and it unlocked my lifelong love of the Replacements. Soon I was hunting down albums, bootlegs, zines, T-shirts—I even agreed to clean my high school biology teacher’s snake and guinea pig tanks for several weeks to borrow his VHS tape of a […]
Stranger Things star and musician Finn Wolfhard is adapting the acclaimed 2016 Replacements biography Trouble Boys into a feature film, SPIN can confirm. Wolfhard has been working for several months with his father Eric and Neighborhood Watch producer Rich Peete to co-write a screenplay based on the book, which was written by journalist Bob Mehr. […]
Annie Kuchenmeister was 16 years old when she and her sister, 11-year-old Nissa, formed the South Minneapolis band Loki’s Folly in 2017. With Annie on guitar and Nissa on drums, the duo started the band out of their love of Green Day and My Chemical Romance. But it was Minneapolis’ own, the Replacements, that was […]
The Replacements’ third album, Let It Be, will be back in stores in deluxe form on Oct. 24, a few months after the 41st anniversary of its release. The Rhino project includes four LPs and three CDs that help trace the evolution of the material on Let It Be, which has long been regarded as […]
As the stockings get hung by the chiminea with care in hopes that Papa Noel soon will be there, you might be hard-pressed to find gifts that will bring true joy to the music-obsessive in your life. Especially if they seem to have every new album or box set that comes out. But fear not, […]
The Replacements released a pencil-sketched animation for “Shutup,” honoring the 40th anniversary of their 1981 classic Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash. [embedded content] The black-and-white video has a number of hidden “Easter eggs” for fans, including references to pioneering punk trio Suicide Commandos. The video was animated by Pat Moriarity and Seth […]
For much of the last quarter-century, Vagrant Records has been synonymous with the emo and alternative scenes. Much like how Epitaph Records and Fat Wreck Chords have become well-established homes for punk, Vagrant remains one of the most significant labels in the world thanks to a catalog featuring hundreds of beloved albums and dozens of […]
As the release date of their Pleased to Meet Me deluxe edition set looms closer, the Replacements are continuing to get fans excited by sharing never before released material from that era. After sharing two demos last month (“I Don’t Know” and “I.O.U.“) the band premiered a new video for the track “Can’t Hardly Wait.” The updated […]
“I.O.U.,” the track that kicks off the original version of the Replacements’ seminal Pleased to Meet Me album, dropped today in its original demo form. The previously unreleased track is on of a deluxe edition of the record, due out Oct. 9. A few other unreleased cuts have been shared recently, including a demo of […]
The Replacements have an extensive box set chronicling the Pleased to Meet Me era that arrives in October. Ahead of its release, fans can hear a newly shared demo of “I Don’t Know.” As you can hear below on the self-mocking track, the lo-fi, garage-y, bare-bones 1986 version (which was recorded at Minneapolis’ Blackberry Way Studios) of the […]