Cheap Trick - Surrender
The Knack - Your Number Or Your Name
The Vapors - Jimme Jones
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
Pavement - Box Elder
Pavement - Perfect Depth
Pavement - Heckler Spray
Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Blatz - Fuk Shit Up
Filth - Scarred For Life
The Pist - Textbook Salvation
Choking Victim - 500 Channels
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Schwartzeneggar - Child Of The Times
Funeral Oration - Still In A Punk Band
Henry Fiat’s Open Sore - The Anti-Man
PJ Bonneman - Jeg Kendte Dem Ikke
Nitad - Radslan
His Electro Blue Voice - Duuug
Thomas Function - Filthy Flowers
Masshysteri - Vår Del Av Stan
Nation Of Ulysses - N-Sub Ulysses
Fugazi - Repeater
Fuel - Take Effect
Circus Lupus - Pop Man
Slant 6 - What Kind Of Monster Are You?
Screeching Weasel - Slogans
Jawbreaker - Kiss The Bottle
Pinhead Gunpowder - Reach For The Bottle
Dillinger Four - Doublewhiskeycokeonice
Born Against - Nine Years Later
Universal Order Of Armageddon - Visible Distance
Heroin - Undertaking
Sleeping Body - Rise To Fall
Hoover - Two Down
Current - Continued Rantings
Chino Horde - Natural
Hickey - California Redemption
New Bomb Turks - Born Toulouse-Lautrec
The Hookers - Kiss My Fuckin’ Ass
Teengenerate - Dressed In Black
The Problematics - The Kids All Suck
Rancid - Nihilism
The Stitches - Sixteen
The Epileptix - Self Hate
The Randumbs - Drool School
The Bruisers - No Truce
The Templars - Land Of The Morning Calm
Oxblood - Oxblood
Those Unknown - Another Face In The Crowd
The Casualties - Political Sin
Blanks 77 - Chelsea Girls
Oxymoron - Dead End Generation
The Restarts - Frustration
Aus Rotten - Fuck Nazi Sympathy
Cress - TV Screen
From Ashes Rise - Haunted Conscience
Totalitär - Krossa Elitsystemet
Leatherface - I Want The Moon
Avail - On The Nod
Propagandhi - Anti-Manifesto
Lifetime - Young, Loud and Scotty
Los Crudos - No Te Debo Nado
Talk Is Poison - Talk Is Poison
9 Shocks Terror - Not A Fucking Anthem
Devoid Of Faith - Cold Sore
The Fuses - New Bomb
The Reds - Teenage Nation
Amdi Petersen’s Arme - Alt Er Ved Det Samme
Karate Party - She’s Got Spawn
FM Knives - Cassevettes VS The Moneygoround
Blake Schwarzenbach (Jawbreaker), Aaron Elliott (Cometbus, Crimpshrine) and Daniela Sea (The L Word) have a new band and I saw them play their second show last night.
I, unfortunately, seem to be one of the “hundred bloggers [that] came to the punk show and left after the first band”. Fuck it, I have no real excuses, save that I am old. tired and get bored really easily. I just didn’t have it in me to stand around for a few more bands that I knew nothing about. Maybe they were great. I don’t particularly care. Sorry.
What I did care about was what this new band actually sounded like. I was intensely curious, because despite how old and jaded I may now be I still have a place in my heart for that very specific romantic side of JAWBREAKER and CRIMPSHRINE.
They played to a packed room in a punk house in Crown Heights. My initial impression was that they were incredibly tight and had really well written songs for only being together for a month or two and only playing out once before. There were at least two “ballads”, one of which reminded me of “Runaway Train” (for real!) in the beginning before morphing into something more abstract, atmospheric and JAWBREAKER-ish. There was a stand out track about Magritte, that reminded me more of later period JAWBREAKER.
What really surprised me and what I honestly was not expecting, was that the majority of their songs were of that nostalgic, bittersweet East Bay pop punk variety, with short breakdowns and bridges of JAWBREAKER style drone. There was a speed and energy to them that took me by surprise, and nowhere near the slower, softer and bleaker sound I was expecting because of Dear You and JETS TO BRAZIL.
If they stay together this band is going to be huge.
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Omega Tribe - Time For Change
Riot Squad SA - Changes Coming
Kulturkampf - A Change
The Proletariat - Decide On Change
Aires And Graces - Make A Change
Autistic Youth - Victim
Tristess - Hog & Lag Blues
Wire - Hard Currency
Blank Dogs - Ants
Pink Reason - Borrowed Time
Cheveu - Jacob’s Fight
TV Ghost - No Doz
Mike Rep And The Quotas - Rocket To Nowhere
The Pagans - Street Where Nobody Lives
Toxic Reasons - War Hero
Sluggo - Contradiction
The Necros - Sex Drive
The Necros - IQ32 1981
The Necros - Conquest for Death
The Necros - Tangled Up
Dag Nasty - Values Here
Minor Threat - Salad Days
7 Seconds - We’re Gonna Fight
Operation Ivy - Sound System
Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come
The Misfits - Halloween
Killing Joke - Turn To Red
Killing Joke - Nervous System
Killing Joke - Wardance
Killing Joke - Requiem
Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders
Skeletal Family - Promised Land
Kommunity FK - We Will Not Fall
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About The Weather
UK Decay - Dresden
Guilty Razors - Provocate
Metal Urbain - Panik
Charles De Goal - Exposition
Frustration - Vice
Samhain - Halloween II