Category: Listen
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I love and miss Maximum Rocknroll
The moment that changed my life forever was November 2008, when I turned 16. For my birthday, my parents bought me my first guitar and amp, a left-handed Fender Squier and a tiny Marshall. I awkwardly (and poorly) taught myself music fundamentals on that motherfucker; I would join up with a high school friend and…
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…And Now For The Rest of That Green Day Album (Saviors – Review)
Saviors is the Warning of the post-American Idiot era of GREEN DAY’s discography*.
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Review – The Pist “Is Risen” LP
Published by Ryvvolte Records, Havoc Records, Profane Existence, and Dismantled Records. Listen Here. To say this album was unexpected would be an understatement. The Pist was a hardcore punk band from Waterbury, CT from 1992 to 1996. Led by Al “Pist” Ouimet, The Pist put out a demo, a couple of singles and EPs, and…
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Have An Unacceptably Long Post Analyzing Green Day’s New Singles That I Wrote Instead Of Doing Work
As I slowly “retvrn” to writing more seriously about the music I like in addition to writing about games and politics and so on, it occurs to me that so far I’ve really just scratched the surface of my tastes or even really examined why it is that I like what I do. I grew…
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Song of the Year: SAMIAM, “Lake Speed”
Hey, I know I said I was taking a break from writing for a while, but before I go: “Lake Speed,” off the album Stowaway by East Bay pop-punk veterans Samiam, is my favorite song of the year. In the context of the rest of the album, it’s “just” an opener, a way to bring…
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What Does It Mean To Be Blink-182 in 2023?
Imagine you’ve been doing something for a long time. I mean, a LONG time. Several decades at least. You’ve become famous (well, notable) for the thing you do, and even when you’ve decided to stop doing that thing or do something else, you still have people coming up to you thanking you for doing the…
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Now Listening: “Remiss,” by Mouth Washington
Melodic hardcore has often wandered into storytelling before, but rarely is it this raw or effective at it.
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Instead of a GOTY (by an enby too busy to write one)
oops I wrote a music of the year list instead of a game of the year list haha bye
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That Time a Punk Band Did Games Criticism
Games crit comes in weird packages sometimes.
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“Ordinary Life” Opens Hot Trans Ska Summer With a Bang
I’m by no means ashamed to admit that I have cried reliably every single time I’ve listened to this album.