I have always hated pop punk. A hatred rooted in watching friends undergo their Fall Out Boy eras in middle school and my traumatic viewing of Blink-182’s performance at Coachella in April of 2023; an hour ...
Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
Following his embarrassing feud with Eminem, a rapper who’s pushing fifty and still failing to recreate the music that made him big in the first place, rapper Machine Gun Kelly attempted to subvert the rap i...
Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK, released the wildly successful pop-punk album, Tickets to My Downfall, in September of 2020. In January 2021, he directed and released a 50-minute masterpiece of a short film, Downfal...
YUNGBLUD’s recent album is a tale for the ages. The UK-based singer-songwriter’s sophomore album, weird!, is an ode to the lost youth of today’s society. With tracks about polyamory, depression, and suici...
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Known for their charming brand of sarcastic surf-rock, The Frights released their latest music video “Me and We and I” in support of their third studio album H...
If you read my last concert review, you know that I think punk rock angst should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, The Front Bottoms are a stellar example of why it is not. This fact is especially disappointin...
I first heard about Remo Drive, the young Minnesota-based indie rock/emo band, through maybe the most unlikely and unexpected way: at a Mitski show in Copenhagen, per recommendation from a Danish fan I had met ...
On February 12, Donald J. Trump, blubbering rocker who is recognized by less than half of the American population as "their president," and his boy band of puppets — together known as the Sad Hombres — drop...
The Summer Set, a pop rock band from Arizona, was on the brink of breaking up before releasing their latest album Stories for Monday (2016) in April of this year. They have stated that this is their most per...
Joyce Manor kicked off their Fall 2016 tour on October 5th at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. After roughly a 3 month break since their last full US tour with Modern Baseball, the band returne...
Pop punk isn't generally my scene, but as is true with most concerts, being surrounded by throngs of teenagers screaming lyrics along with the lead singer kind of makes you love the music too. The Front Bottom...
On Friday November 21, 924 Gilman (Berkeley’s famous punk rock mecca) was filled to the brim -- fans of (nearly) all ages came out for Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra, Somos, Crying, Knuckle Puck, an...
It's a wonderful feeling when a band can be both sweetly nostalgic while maintaining a wholly mature and unique sound. Joyce Manor, although hailed as being a leader in the emo-revival movement, is doing ...