Tag: punk rock
Sunday Rewind: Social Distortion – Live at the Roxy
One of the most enraging phenomena in the music world today are the many misconceptions tied to the punk rock genre. Punk rock began, and remains today in its true form, a boundless form of expression, immune to stylistic categorization. That is, and always will be, the crux of where punk rock came from and [...]
Sunday Rewind: The Dead 60s – S/T
A lot of good bands crashed and burned in the mid Naughties. A rock and roll revival came and went faster than a flash in the pan. For 2 years or so, bands like The Coral, The Libertines, The Bravery, The Rakes, The Strokes, The Vines, The Hives, dominated the airwaves. Of all of those [...]
Live: Face to Face – Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ – 6.19.12
In 1999, punk rock outfit Face to Face released the most controversial album in their catalog, Ignorance is Bliss. By no means was the controversy tied to anything generally “offensive”. The controversy laid more so in the fact that the record was such a vast departure from their previous three albums. Ignorance is Bliss is a [...]
Hear This Now: The Gaslight Anthem – ’45′
Well, it’s safe to say that summer is off to the races. We’re in the midst of a pretty incredible year of music and it looks like we’re about to be graced with a true return to form from The Gaslight Anthem. While American Slang was certainly a solid album, their new single ’45′ seems [...]
Buy This EP: Mother Feather – S/T EP
This is why I love Manhattan. On a nondescript Wednesday night in the far reaches of SoHo, I found what may be my new favourite band. I wasn’t sure what I was walking into having never been to Santos Party House before, but I did know that My Pet Dragon and Hank & Cupcakes would [...]
Mick’s Lit: Just Kids by Patti Smith
Like most people in their late 20s/early 30s, I imagine that I have a pretty good handle on the 60s and 70s and the era that we define as ‘classic rock’ that birthed the bands that most of ‘our’ bands idolize. I have listened to more than my share of music from the era – [...]
