The Boogers – Let’s Go! Review & Giveaway
On their website, The Boogers claim to be “the world’s most dangerous kids band.” They don’t play death metal so that might not be 100% accurate, but The Boogers do play some of the finest punk rock for kids I’ve ever heard. The band’s 2nd album Let’s Go! is filled with 13 songs of fast (Read more…)
Pop Punk Junk Vol. 16
Another big blast from the past. My wife originally put “Sappy Song” and a whole bunch of other pop punk songs on a mixtape for me but I have no idea what ever happened to it. I was actually looking through boxes in our garage for it just last week and all I found were (Read more…)
A little band called Boxer
You might not know it but the first band signed by Vagrant Records was Boxer from Boston, Mass. The band’s one and only album, The Hurt Process was produced by none other than Face to Face’s Trever Keith and released by Vagrant on May 5th, 1998. It’s an under-appreciated but masterful slab of post-Lifetime post-hardcore (Read more…)
Kristia Moya & Dead Ringer
Recently I’ve been a little smitten with the music of Kristia Moya. I first heard of her from Kim and well… Kristia fronts the band Dead Ringer, a pop-punk band from New Jersey that doesn’t sound totally dissimilar to Discount. Their 3 song demo (available for free download) is really good and had gotten quite (Read more…)
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 28)
I’m not sure what other “category” to put this post in, so it just sorta haphazardly ends up as part of this series. Just go with it. So on what was the sunny afternoon of December 23, 1997 the three guys in Allister (that’s me on bass, John on guitar, and Tim on drums) went (Read more…)
Pop Punk Junk Vol. 15
Welcome back to Pop Punk Junk. I’m going to try to get a new one of these up every week or two until I run out of stuff to post. With a backlog of about 200 songs (give or take) that should take me through the end of 2011 or so. If you’ve got suggestions (Read more…)
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 27)
Division was/is a band from the Western suburbs of Chicago. I’m pretty sure we first heard the band on All Ages Radio. Their first album Who Died | A Working Title was released in (I think) 2001 and their second album Conversational was released a few years later. These guys (Joe and Andy Chavez and (Read more…)
Mayflower – Second Best Sunsets
So you want to know about a really great band? A band so great they should have been on my year end list last year. Well, the band is called Mayflower and they’re from Syracuse. Their debut full-length, Second Best Sunsets was released last summer by the studs from Kiss Of Death Records their sound (Read more…)
Carpenter – Sea To Sky
Another album that I’ve finally had a chance to listen to after the madness that was the holiday and year-end list season, is the latest from Canada’s Carpenter. On first listen to their second album, Sea To Sky, I was hugely disappointed considering how much I loved their debut, Law Of The Land. Initially, many (Read more…)
