Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s new column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week examines the rise of political punk in the US.
HELLO. This is not a drill. ANGELS AND AIRWAVES are back. I’ve always been a huge Blink 182 fan. Chesire Cat days into Dude Ranch, Pennywise, early Less than Jake, the Punk O Rama days, Rancid having “Ruby SoHo”, Goldfinger “Here in your Bedroom” I mean let’s go baby. River Fenix opening for Bad Religion opening for Blink on tour? Went to multiple dates of that when I was literally in middle school and clueless about anything except my oversized shorts, my vans (later MacBeth shoes) and wearing a long sleeve shirt with the t-shirt over it – a staple… Read more »
An essay by Chris Barr, from The Eddie Jason & Chris Show This felt like a significant event, even if it was a minor significant event. This past Saturday, September 21st, 2013, was the first day of what is sure to become the annual Riot Fest: Denver music festival, here in the home-town of idobi Radio’s Eddie, Jason, and Chris Show. That evening, as I took in the spectacle of something like 200 people scrambling up onto a stage to cavort with the eternally leathered Iggy Pop, fronting his seminal proto-punk band the Stooges, I had a horrible revelation: The… Read more »
The Used will headline the 2013 Take Action Tour with support from We Came As Romans, Crown The Empire, and Mindflow. In addition to the tour, Sub City/Hopeless Records will release Take Action Volume 11 on January 8th.
An Every Time I Die album always packs a punch (or makes you want to punch someone!) and the band’s latest release Ex Lives is no different.
“Lost” may have just ended its six-season run, but one of the TV show’s stars is now immortalized on the new album by rock band Weezer.
Episode 4 playlist for First Person w/ Josh Madden: Ramones – Pinhead The Clash – Train in Vain (Stand by Me) The Runaways – Cherry Bomb Death – Politicians in My Eyes Social Distortion – Another State of Mind Circle Jerks – Back Against the Wall The Dictators – Baby, Let’s Twist Minor Threat – Good Guys (Don’t Wear White) Bad Brains – I Against I Black Flag – Rise Above Misfits – Static Age Bad Religion – suffer Bikini Kill – Reject All American Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl Pinhead Gunpowder – Big Yellow Taxi Descendents – Nothing… Read more »
Punk band Rancid will release its first album in six years on June 2, two days before it begins a North American tour with Rise Against in Vancouver, B.C. “Let the Dominoes Fall” (Hellcat/Epitaph), the band’s seventh album, was recorded at George Lucas‘ Skywalker Sound Studio in San Francisco, with production by Epitaph founder and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Stax organ legend Booker T. Jones plays Hammond B3 on the track “Up To No Good.” Rancid’s last album, 2003’s “Indestructible,” reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200. That album marked the band’s first and last for Warner Bros., though… Read more »
In between the raunchy humor and nudity, Blink-182 managed to make a huge impact on other bands and devoted fans. Perhaps without even knowing it – and definitely without ever really trying – Blink-182 have somehow become one of the most influential bands of the past 20 years. This might seem like a bit of a stretch. After all, aren’t these the same guys with the discography of di– jokes? The ones who gave their albums titles like “Enema of the State or Take Off Your Pants and Jacket?” Well, yes. But they’re also the same guys who featured Robert… Read more »
The Warped Tour, the annual traveling festival that targets the Vans-wearing, emo-loving youth of America, has recently announced the lineup for their 2009 caravan. As usual (and because the event is celebrating its 15th anniversary), the lineup combines older acts like NOFX, Less Than Jake and Bad Religion with newer artists like 3OH!3 and Black Tide. Other notables on the bill include the hard-rocking Gallows, the Ataris, Thrice, Underoath, Bayside and a bunch of other bands that are currently blasting on Hot Topic stereos. At first glance, the bill lacks the big names of past fests, the Paramores and Gym… Read more »
