Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Best Rock Records of 2025

Serving up the greatest underground rock music of the year.

Jan 14 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Best Rock Albums of 2024

Better late than never: Douglas Martin documents the greatest in underground rock music last year.

Jan 21, 2025 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Ear-Splitting Mythology of Les Rallizes Dénudés

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes column returns to deliver 5 chapters diving into the lore and mythology of the Japanese rockstars Les Rallizes Dénudés.

May 29, 2024 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Best Rock Albums of 2023

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes makes its long-awaited return by counting down the best underground rock records of the year – featuring The Drin, Famous…

Jan 2, 2024 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: On Tacocat's "Retrograde" and Back-Spinning Planets

Douglas Martin offers a little astrology lesson in the guise of reviewing the Seattle punk band's recent single.

Nov 4, 2019 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Fluid (and Velvety) Songwriting of SadGirl

Douglas Martin's rock music column returns with a look at the vaguely Lynchian Los Angeles trio.

Jun 19, 2019 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: Randy Randall's "Shore Sunset Part 1"

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes returns with a quick look at the first single from the No Age guitarist's forthcoming solo album.

Feb 7, 2019 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: Shogun and the Sheets Lay Royal Headache to Rest

Douglas Martin takes a look at the former Royal Headache singer's new single.

Oct 29, 2018 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: Snares Like a Haircut and the Ecstatic Maturation of No Age

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes returns with a look at No Age's new LP, 'Snares Like a Haircut.'

Mar 9, 2018 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: An Interview with Grace Vonderkuhn

Douglas Martin chats with Grace Vonderkuhn about being a woman in rock, Ty Segall, and her forthcoming LP, 'Reveries.'

Jan 23, 2018 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Dirty 30 of 2017

Douglas Martin's Dirty 30 returns with 30 great rock songs from 2017.

Jan 2, 2018 • Douglas Martin

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Thawing Dawn of Andrew Savage

Dirty Shoes returns with a look at A. Savage's solo debut, 'Thawing Dawn.'

Oct 22, 2017 • Douglas Martin

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