Between my later high school years and my arrival at college (and particularly the college radio station), I spent much of my musical life looking back at the punk and indie bands that had escaped my tutelage under the Midwestern radio stations I'd grown up with. And few discoveries thrilled me more than stumbling across the
first two Undertones albums. While bands like the
Ramones and
Buzzococks had established that pop hooks were an integral part of early punk rock, Ireland's Undertones upped ...
Published on March 09, 2023 05:28