Rolling Stone, you take the cake: …so we can pretty much pin the entire state of emo at this point on Minor Threat. Why do I even bother? Do the folks at RS even know what music is anymore? They’re probably too busy catching up with The Beatles circa 1966 to even try to recognize what [[...]
Posts Tagged ‘scrunk’
July 28th, 2009 - 12:11 am § in Perfect Lines
It Had To Happen…
I’m referring to a Get Up Kids interview featured on The Drowned In Sound website. Though it’s only been online for a matter of hours, it’s attracted a wave of attention for a rather misinterpreted quote that goes to the tune of GET UP KIDS APOLOGIZE FOR EMO on several other new[...]
July 23rd, 2009 - 12:57 am § in Perfect Lines
Neon Shirt
Saw the above t-shirt at Warped on Tuesday. It may just be a shirt, but nowadays fashion is oft as important – if not the important – as the music that a band chooses to define itself. In My So Called Punk, Matt Diehl notes the clashes between “emo” kids and traditional R[...]
July 22nd, 2009 - 12:04 am § in Perfect Lines
Mayday, Mayday
Got back from Warped Tour a handful of hours ago. For those eager to hear what went down at the Boston date, check out Bostonist in a day or two for a review with a smattering of pics such as the one I took of Frank Carter at the start of this post. Sure, [...][...]
July 20th, 2009 - 12:53 am § in Perfect Lines
Scoop?
Well, I haven’t gotten out to Warped just yet, but even so, it seems that I got the jump on the New York Times with my piece on the whole scrunk thing for The Phoenix. Ok, perhaps that’s a huuuuuge overstatement, but Jon Caramanica did notice the combination of electronics and screamo a[...]
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 [...]