Currently headlining the "Why Don't You Change YOUR Name Tour," Feable Weiner knows that its name is ridiculous, but the Tennessee-based pop-punkers revel in this fact.
Okay, who let Chris Conley listen to the "White Album"? Although it should be a crime to compare Saves the Day to the Beatles, I can't help but point out how drastically the band has changed their sound since their last album, ironically titled "Stay What You Are." Saves the Day (the cool kids call them STD... and then giggle) has gone the way of so many other trend-setters, turning their backs on the genre that they helped create to find solace in bizarre song-writing.
OMG! Iron Maiden wails soooo hard! How can a band play for over 20 years and yet remain totally uninfluenced by what is going on in the rest of the music industry?
As a band renowned for down-beat and depressing anthems, The Weakerthans do a little bit of reconstruction of their own on their newest release, "Reconstruction Site." Fortunately, the band is equipped for the task.
Bands that combine genres usually do nothing but take formulaic song structures from two types of music and combine them to form something terrible -- think Limp Bizkit -- but Thrice is an exception to this stereotype, delivering a solid album that successfully mates melodic poppy punk with the fury of heavy metal.
As wrong as this may sound, maturity might be the only factor holding Fairweather back from achieving their full rock and roll potential. The D.C.
One cannot help but ponder what kind of game Radiohead is playing with the music industry. On one hand, the band refused to play their first mega-hit, "Creep," for years because they did not want to be defined as a one hit wonder.
If only "Revolutions Per Minute" had hit the shelves in 1997. Unfortunately, it's 2003 and in our modern punk scene saturated with would-be Saves the Day cover bands, the angst-ridden power punk of Rise Against probably will go unnoticed.
Waiting five years to put out a record since 1998's "Let's Talk About Feelings," Lagwagon left the expectations of fans to grow for years.
I knew what I was getting into when I decided to review "So Long, Astoria," but I couldn't turn away.
