This week marks the 35th anniversary of the fifth full-length album by The Replacements, Pleased To Meet Me. As a Midwestern male of the Gen X persuasion, this qualifies as a holiday. And, as is ...

The Replacements began to turn away from their early punk aesthetic on Hootenanny, setting themselves up for stirring new successes. Unfortunately, this album also marked the beginning of the end for ...

“I hate music / sometimes I don’t / I hate music / it’s got too many notes” – fewer lyrics sum up the pure essence of their creator more than Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg‘s on “I Hate Music,” ...

No. 13 Oregon baseball’s never-ending sixth inning left its lineup card looking like a Costco receipt, as four straight pitchers could only... It was bound to happen at some point. One can’t hold down ...

When The Replacements put out their sixth album, Don’t Tell A Soul, in February of 1989, it didn’t set the world on fire. By the following year, the band’s reluctant frontman and genius ...

Prior to The Replacements making Let It Be, the basic blueprint for American alt.rock was set in stone. It was unrelentingly fast, loud and hardcore, as embodied by the likes of The Replacements’ ...

The Replacements have announced a sprawling box set of their 1985 album Tim, featuring a completely remixed version of the LP. Titled Tim: Let It Bleed Edition, the four-CD and one-LP set also ...

When the Replacements got together for a long-wished-for reunion in 2013, I wrote: "The Replacements are the band that saved my life. Their songs were messy and sentimental and they came around when I ...

The Replacements‘ debut album, 1981’s Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, is getting the Deluxe Edition reissue treatment for its 40th anniversary. It’s out October 22 vi Rhino. The 4-CD / 1-vinyl ...

If, like many fans, you think it’s one of the great rock injustices that The Replacements never really made it, you’ll have a whole new viewpoint after reading Bob Mehr’s exhaustive (and exhausting) ...

Post-punk band the Replacements will reunite for the first time in 22 years to play at least three festival dates this summer, the band announced on Wednesday night. At their peak in the 1980s, the ...