We Can Do Anything

The charitable way to describe We Can Do Anything, the first Violent Femmes record in 15 years, is that it's a back-to-basics record; a less charitable perspective is that it's a pale Silly Putty copy of their still-beloved self-titled record from 33 years ago.

Everyone reaches a point at which hearing the opening riff of “Blister In The Sun”—for maybe the hundredth time, maybe the thousandth—results in a spontaneously induced catatonic state, triggered by decades worth of overexposure. There’s nothing much to be done about it, really. As part of the soundtrack for a 1997…

Following the release of last year’s EP Happy New Year, the Milwaukee trio are back with their first full length release in fifteen years.

The punk-folk veterans are back with a set of rousing, self-aware and sometimes puerile songs

Naysayers could cynically argue that We Can Do Anything, Violent Femmes' first album in 16 years, is a flagrant attempt to recreate the soun...

Never quite grasping the success of some of their equally madcap peers, Violent Femmes have rightly earned their place in musical history with their

There’s some classic Femmes from Gordon Gano and co on their first album in 16 years