Pop Punk Junk Vol. 4
Here’s the fourth installment of this silly mega compilation I’m putting together. For some reason whenever I listen to Cletus, I think of Andy Pishko. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. MP3 | Pennywise – Dying To Know from the 1993 album Unknown Road MP3 | The Unlovables – (Read more…)
Pop Punk Junk Vol. 3
More pop punk than you can shake a stick at. From the short-lived Sludgeworth to current stuff that borders on mall-punk, pop punk comes in many different flavors. Consider this a sampler platter. MP3 | MxPx – Punk Rawk Show from the 1995 album Teenage Politics MP3 | All Time Low – Dear Maria Count (Read more…)
Seven Years And Counting…
Seven years ago today I married my beautiful wife Amy on a sunny day in St. Marys, PA. Seems like we were just kids back then. Even though we were [Totally] in love, it’s sometimes hard to believe that she went for it when I popped the [Question] considering I think it was a [Pretty (Read more…)
Pop Punk Junk Vol. 2
So here’s round two of what might be a never ending stream of pop punk coming out of my speakers. I wasn’t going to include the China Drum song this early in the series, but a message from my guy Jeff (of the great Rocket Fuel podcast) the other day about the band prompted me (Read more…)
Pop Punk Junk Vol. 1
My new daughter, Teagan Reese, was born a week ago today and that day also happened to be exactly 4 years from my first post on this blog. During the 4 years that CYSTSFTS has been in existence, I’ve made my affinity for pop punk no secret. It’s the music I grew up listening to (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 53)
Here’s another dose of 90’s goodness right on the heels of the last one. I remember the first time I ever heard the band Live. It was at one of those CD stores that used to have listening stations where people could listen to music before they bought it. It was probably 1993 or so (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 52)
I’ve gotten a bunch of requests to keep this feature going so here it is. I can hardly believe that it has been almost 3 months since I last posted some songs from the 90’s. Has it really been that long? It has, but something about the untimely and sudden death of Michael Jackson yesterday (Read more…)
Some stuff that’s come across my desk lately (a mix)
This is really the first real mix that I’ve posted in quite some time. Even so, it is more of a “some of the stuff that’s come across my desk lately” list than an actual planned out and carefully sequenced mix. Even so, I still hope you enjoy. There’s everything ranging from roots rock to (Read more…)
Stuff I should have written about months ago (vol. 3)
Chris Pureka has an EP out with some studio tracks and a handful of live tracks that is Americana-tinged singer/songwriter fare. Actually quite good (as in way better than I expected it to be even though I’m not sure why I didn’t think it would be good). This song is especially great. RIYL: Indigo Girls, (Read more…)
