First Listen: Alice Bag, 'Blueprint'
Alice Bag was foundational in building what punk rock became, and her second solo album shows what it's still becoming.
Building anything, whether it's a home, a life, or an album, is tireless work. A blueprint helps, but having one hardly means things will go according to plan. Learning to build around the plans when they fall through is a necessary skill — and, often, one that you don't know you possess until you're in the middle of the process.
While writing her latest album, the aptly-named , the Chicana punk trailblazer found herself thinking about plans (and the swerves therein) while
