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Editor’s note: We’re thrilled for the release of Paste contributor Freda Love Smith’s new memoir, which brings together her background as a musician (she’s the founding drummer of the band ...

Juliana Hatfield began her 2020 tour last week, and a few of the dates are with Chicago’s Sunshine Boys that includes Juliana’s old Blake Babies bandmate Freda Love Smith on drums.

Bloomington native Freda Love Smith is a legend in the local punk scene. She was the drummer in The Blake Babies, Antenna and The Mysteries Of Life in the 1980s and 1990s. The Paste columnist ...

Historian Chaplin (The First Scientific American) provides an enthralling exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s little-remembered but most commercially successful invention. The Continue reading ...

Freda Love Smith did a lot of her growing up here in Bloomington before leaving at age 18 for Boston and the world of rock and roll. In Boston, she met Juliana Hatfield. The two of them started ...

Jake Smith is on holiday from his home in Nottingham, England. Smith and his wife, Freda Love, moved their family to the United Kingdom in 2006, leaving a void in the Indianapolis and Bloomington ...