Okay, I'll start with something soccer related. Check out Earthquakes fan Lars Frederisksen's band Old Firm Casuals' album "For the Love of it All". F*ckin rocks... http://www.oitheboat.com/products/513181-the-old-firm-casuals-for-the-love-of-it-all-2xlp-cd Throw out some suggestions, folks...
How old are the guys in this band? They sound like they're from a different era. I haven't been a big fan of a lot of new punk, hardcore, Oi!, etc. But this sounds like it comes from my era. I was heavily involved in the Chicago hardcore scene in the mid to late 80s. Interesting. I looked up some info on all of this. I was not a fan of Rancid. I do like this album though. Odd to me that something newer from the same guy would appeal to me so much more than his older stuff.
Lars Frederiksen is 42. Yeah I avoided Rancid for many years because of the whole scene I associated them with. But after learning more about them I realized they have much more integrity than those pop-punk major label acts I was lumping them in with. And, yes, Old Firm Casuals is even more raw and straightforward. Seems like Lars leans more Cockney Rejects while the others lean more Clash. Being from Chicago, did you ever catch the Effigies live?
What labels and bands do you guys follow? Also, does anyone attend Fest in gainesville? Best Album for you guys in 2013? Last show attended?
My favorite album of 2013 is a little more on the punk/metal hybrid side of things: Red Fang's "Whales & Leeches"... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ljhsFJH38 Other albums on rotation lately include "Kings of Punk, Hockey & Beer" by D.O.A. and "Hardcore Hooligans" by The Business. (Both are full of hysterical lyrics, BTW.) Last show attended was Greg Ginn & Ron Reyes' Black Flag rehash when they hit ATL a few months back. I know he's an ass and it was a joke to reform the band, but he is a brilliant guitarist and he didn't disappoint. What do you recommend?
My favorite album of 2013 was either Direct Hit-brainless God or Red City Radio-Titles or http://paperplastick.limitedrun.com/products/517619-red-city-radio-titles last show attended was Against Me! in Orlando, Jan 25th. Just as good as they have always been even with all the changes, and I had as much fun at this one as I did at any going back to my first Against Me! show back in 2003 Next show planned is Iroc Chic and Off with The Heads here in gainesville, both released albums in 2013 and both were very solid. and the two combining for one show will be titanic. I always dug Rancid myself, to piggyback into that conversation, with the exception of Indestructable, but I haven't kept up with them in a long time, never listened to the side projects much either, besides The Transplants, and I hated that
Thanks, I'll check em out. Iron Chic website's description in Google is hilarious: Iron Chic is a decent band from Long Island, NY. They play songs that are acceptable.
I don't have any of those bands in rotation, haven't listened to a Green Day album since Insomniac and never enjoyed Blink, sorry your idea of punk is confined to what you see on tv, your bad
Absolutely. The punk highlight was stage diving at the Circle Jerks and Black Flag shows at the Metro.
Had a beer with Mike Watt at a yuppy bar next to the Metro once. He was playing a show with Eddie Vedder and his wife and some band they'd formed. Watt didn't expect to be recognized in that environment, but was cool when he realized I wasn't going to try to scam tickets for the show (which had people lining up most of the way back to the Punkin Donuts on Belmont). A friend of mine later interviewed Watt, but I won't post a link since 1) I'm at work and 2) it was published on the Suicide Girls website.
I'm struggling to think of what punk means. I know the '70s version of punk -- the usual anger of 17 year old males, wanting to tell everybody to ******** off, funneled into a certain type of look & sound that was topical, in that it was a rejection of prog rock & glitz. I mean, I was there. I know what Pink Floyd looked like and sounded like, and I get why punk was a counter reaction. But now? Or even the '90s? Be white, hate everybody and wear black? Not being snarky, just trying to understand.
Green Day turned an album into a long running, and now touring, Broadway show. That' doesn't help me understand, either.
What? It's not like I wrote, produced, directed (or hell, even dreamed of attending) the damn thing. Geez, talk about shooting the messenger. But since neg rep is a thing of the past...
I thought about going when in NY as a tourist. I would have gone if Billie Jo were in the cast (he came and went). No, you don't get neg rep for that. You get neg rep for dodging my question, Herr Doktor Professor.
That's pretty much true for any genre you can think of, what starts out as an authentic original expression becomes something that later people emulate or are influenced by. To me punk is hard, loud, simple rock with an anti-authoritarian edge. And ultimately it's sort of an "I know it when I hear it" thing.
GG Allin is the man. I have been listening to a lot of Punk Lately. I love Synth Punk. Dance Punk is sweet too. The Units are awesome. It sucks the scene was ruined by a bunch of corporate heads.
GG Allin was a drug addicted POS with very little talent. Another Sid Vicious but far more detestable,