"Red Letter Days" by Matt Pryor 2023-04-07 is an essential career-spanning collection

is an essential career-spanning collection highlighting 26 previously released songs

Sonic Youth’s The Walls Have Ears appeared / disappeared as a 2LP set in 1986

poetic vocals have set them apart from the glut of early-'90s post-hardcore

' 'California Sun' (a hit for the Rivieras in the '60s) and of course the controversial 'Carbona Not Glue'

"Red Letter Days" by Matt Pryor 2023-04-07 is an essential career-spanning collectionRed Letter Days is the debut novel from Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, The Terrible Twos). "This was never meant to be a book about emo or even the band in particular, I didn't want to write about the 'scene.' That is already well documented," he explains. "I just wanted to write a book to see if I could do it. It's the same way I felt when I was sixteen and I wanted to make an album: I don't really have a reason, it's just something