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Music history podcast No Dogs in Space returns after two-year hiatus with Punk 2.0 season

Hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks have relaunched their music history podcast No Dogs in Space with a fourth season called Punk 2.0, kicking off with a multi-part look at the New York Dolls. The hiatus stretched over two years, partly because the pair abandoned an earlier planned season on the Washington DC punk scene after research into Bad Brains and the scope of the project became untenable.

theverge.com · 2026-09-20

Rediscovered: The Units' 1980 album Digital Stimulation praised as synthpunk landmark

A Verge editor traces his discovery of The Units through a synthpunk.org archive found via the Wayback Machine, leading him to the band's 1980 record Digital Stimulation. He argues the album, led by Scott Ryser and Rachel Webber, sounds startlingly modern despite its era-specific production, with tracks resembling contemporary acts like MSPAINT, DFA-era dance-punk, and Single Frame.

theverge.com · 2026-09-13