The behind-the-scenes (or rather, behind-my-thoughts) on the Boston Phoenix piece I did on scrunk and Warped Tour is still to come, but consider this a little preview. A lots been said online since the piece went on the net about scrunk/crunkcore and its impact on Warped Tour, which isn’t to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Brokencyde’
July 15th, 2009 - 12:42 am § in Perfect Lines
There Appears To Be An Event Happening
So, the research I’ve pointed out in a few earlier blog entries has come to fruition in an article for The Boston Phoenix. On scrunk. That’s right, the (un)holy matrimony between screamo and crunk as seen in brokeNCYDE, Millionaires, and various others. You can check out The Phoenix[...]
July 2nd, 2009 - 12:42 am § in Perfect Lines
Research Ouch
Ouch. Seriously, look at this thing: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XOAxAbUAw] And I’m not just referring to the guys breaking glass on different parts of their bodies. It’s kinda painful to just watch the entire thing… Oh well, on with the work…[...]
June 18th, 2009 - 1:17 am § in Perfect Lines
I Can't Believe I Missed This…
Antz From BrokeNCYDE Arrested During Sold-Out Original Gangsta Tour Albuquerque, NM based Crunkcore innovators Brokencyde have been causing fans to go wild during their current sold-out tour alongside Drop Dead Gorgeous and Eyes Set to Kill, but the group drew a different kind of attention in Allsto[...]
May 5th, 2009 - 12:10 am § in Perfect Lines
Bamboozled!
Tonight at Harpers Ferry, Enter Shikari‘s singer Rou had something rather stunning to say about performing at Bamboozle the previous day: “Every band sounded exactly the same.” There was more in that quote than just the one line, pretty much along the lines of how terrible all the [...]
April 20th, 2009 - 1:02 pm § in Perfect Lines
Best… Joke… Ever… Today
And they say scene kids have no sense of humor: Probably not real, but I may be just curious enough to drop that email a line…[...]
April 1st, 2009 - 8:33 pm § in Perfect Lines
Hey! What?! No, Really… What?
I wish I could blame this sort of thing on April Fools Day, and perhaps the timing is all-out irony, but it’s stuff like this that reminds you how everyone lives under their own rock at times. What am I talking about specifically? Scrunk. That’s screamo-crunk. The Guardian already “[...]