GOLDEN – “I want to run”-Fans of pop punk bands like Yellowcard will find a lot to like about this track from GOLDEN. It’s got all the full chords and up tempo style that will remind listeners of the early 2000s. The expressive …
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Featured Single: Pop punk jam “Nightlife” by Familiar Things
Familiar Things – “Nightlife”-For old punk rockers of certain age *ahem*, we remember when punk rock actually was on the radio. It’s a genre that has had a fascinating pattern of evolution from being socially outcast to being on prime time television. Familiar …
Featured Single: Outatime! brings a pop punk jam to bring some energy today
Outatime! – “False start” ft. Nick Thompson-The lyric “too bad I was a seed when you tried to bury me” seemed a little sus, not gonna lie. But the more I listened to this song I was taken by the sentiment about working …
A pair of pop punk tracks to show the genre is still alive and thriving
Full Throttle – “Sh!t show”-This track has it all; it’s like a pop punk checklist. Power chords? Yes. Great name? Absolutely. A ton of up tempo style with a devil-may-care attitude? Yes and yes. There are a wide range of bands from the …
Throw up your rock fist! A few punk-influenced rock jams to get you moving
A Festival, A Parade – “Big Screen TV”-I definitely dig the distortion on the guitars on this track. It’s an intense, up tempo style that almost defies genre description. The clean guitar lines on one guitar with the fuzzed-out other guitar balances out …
Featured Single: The Get Up Kids – “I’m Sorry”
They’re baaaaaaaaaaaack. Some of us grew up on this type of pop punk and had a lot to learn from bands like The Get Up Kids. As a kid who went to a few sticky-floored punk shows in my day, I was geeked …
Quick Hits – A little Rock, A Lot of Punk
We get a lot of EP’s at Ear to the Ground. Many of them are rather extraordinary. A humble music writer such as myself is limited by a few short posts each week, which means sometimes he has to cheat and double up …
The Forty-Eight–Radio Symmetry and an Anthem Against Industrialized Art.
Alissa Beyer has been a solo act for a long time. The singer-songwriter recently decided that it was time to try, not something else, but something new. Now she has a band. A great band that supports her sultry rock-and-roll voice so so …
LCD Soundsystem Documentary Review
written by Jake Nelko On April 2, 2011, LCD Soundsystem played their last show to a sold out Madison Square Garden in New York City. They played 29 songs over a nearly 4-hour span, including all of the hits like “All My Friends” …
