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Critterthing Is a “Threat to Your Convenience” on Save Room LP

December 08, 2025 by Jim Byron in Album Review

With an album like Save Room, Critterthing takes you into an uncensored view of the strength, weakness, courage, fear, struggle, and triumph that you can’t extricate from a genuine queer and trans experience.

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December 08, 2025 /Jim Byron
minnesota music, Minneapolis Punk Rock, Poison, critterthing
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Poison Ivy And The People Divulge Existential Confessions on Robot Ghost EP

September 02, 2025 by Jim Byron in Album Review, Upcoming Events

Robot Ghost rejects tidy conclusions. The EP flickers with hope but refuses to extinguish discomfort; listeners move alongside the protagonist, drifting from dissociation and exhaustion to flashes of hope and rebellion. Each song becomes a new confession, a small act of resistance against self-destruction and collective despair.

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September 02, 2025 /Jim Byron
minnesota music, Minneapolis Punk Rock, Poison, Poison Ivy And The People
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