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Giving 'bad music' another chance

June 29, 2010 / 1 Comment

Back in May, “Best Worst Movie” director Michael Paul Stephenson wrote an editorial about loving bad movies. It was titled: Bad Books Are Bad, and Bad Food Is Bad. But Bad Movies Are Not Always Bad What’s missing from the title? Music. Specifically bad music. Perhaps Stephenson left bad music out of the conversation for … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 40 oz, Best Worst Movie, Brokencyde, Christopher Weingarten, crunkcore, Damian Abraham, DIY, exclaim!, Eye Weekly, Fucked Up, Michael Paul Stephenson, Pink Eye, scrunk, The Boston Phoenix, The Huffington Post, Troll 2, Warped Tour

Music and the Media, Part 3: This is an Advertisement

April 26, 2010 / Leave a Comment

What is one expected to do when the economy’s in the tank and it seems harder and harder to make a decent living in your chosen industry? In music, the route to a sustainable existence appears to be written in the ads. Or, so it seems in the case of the Black Eyed Peas, a … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 3Oh!3, 500 Days of Summer, Algernon Cadwallader, Annabel, apple, Black Eyed Peas, emo, Family Guy, Fesit, iPod, Lollapalooza, merhcandise, Nintendo, Peter Helmis, The Temper Trap, This is an Advertisement, Tommy Hilfiger, Wall Street Journal, Warped Tour, will.i.am

Music In 2009: A Review

December 31, 2009 / 5 Comments

It’s hard to sum up an entire year of pop music in one concise “best of” list. Instead, here’s a tidy little look at some of the highs and lows in pop music over the past year: Hip-Huh?: The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones declared that hip-hop was dead and upset a lot of hip-hop heads. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 2009, American Idol, American Music Awards, Animal Collective, Barack Obama, Billboard, Boston, Boston Red Sox, Breathe Carolina, Brokencyde, Christian Bale, Christopher R. Weingarten, crunk, crunkcore, David Rowell, DJ Earworm, Eminem, emo, Faith No More, Freaxxx, glo-fi, grindcore, heavy metal, hip-hop, I'm On A Boat, Idolator, Jane's Addiction, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Killing in the Name, Kingdom Come, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Live Nation, Maura Johnston, Michael Bay, Michael Jackson, Millionaires, MTV, MTV VMAs, music, Neon Indian, New England Patriots, No Line On The Horizon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II, Pavement, Pig Destroyer, Pop music, R U Professional? (4 Xtian), Raekwon, Rage Against The Machine, Relapse, Sasha Frere-Jones, screamo, scrunk, Simon Cowell, Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, Terminator, Tha Carter III, The Black Album, The Blueprint 2, The Blueprint 3, The Lonely Islands, The Mae Shi, The Marshall Mathers LP, The New Yorker, The Van Pelt, The Washington Post Magazine, Ticketmaster, Toro Y Moi, Transformers, U2, United States of Pop, Veckatimest, Warped Tour, Washed Out, X Factor, year in review, Yellow House

The Decade In Emo

December 23, 2009 / 7 Comments

It was indeed “A Decade Under The Influence.” But while Taking Back Sunday could string together a few solid hits drenched in a post-hardcore milieu and cut with pop sensibilities, chances are no one in the band could have predicted how influential emo would become in the aughts. The presence of the word in the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: ...is a Real Boy, A Decade Under The Influence, Abercrombie & Fitch, Achilles Heel, Algernon Cadwallader, Atmosphere, Bleed American, Brand New, Chris Carrabba, Coheed & Cambria, crunkcore, D.C., Dashboard Confessional, Dog Problems, Drive Like Jehu, emo, Emo: Where The Girls Aren't, emocore, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Fall Out Boy, Fugazi, Hardcore punk, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Jawbox, Jessica Hopper, Jimmy Eat World, Maritime, Monument, music, My Chemical Romance, New York Times, Owen, P.O.S., Pedro the Lion, Pop music, post-hardcore, Punk Planet, Rhymesayers, Rising Tide, Rolling Stone, Sage Francis, Say Anything, screamo, scrunk, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, The Appleseed Cast, The Argument, The Format, The Get Up Kids, The Guilt Show, The Promise Ring, The Used, Thursday, Tim Burton, War All The Time, Warped Tour, Wood/Water

brokeNCYDE leave Warped

August 24, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I’m not one to usually recycle news without some sort of comment/insight (errr… at least, not on a consistent basis and based on reporting from other sites), but the following news (as reported by Aversion) certainly speaks for itself: Much to the delight of uptight moms and punk kids alike, Brokencyde’s pulled out of the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Aversion, Brokencyde, crunkcore, emo, music, scrunk, Twitter, Warped Tour

Neon Shirt

July 23, 2009 / Leave a Comment

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 “punk” kids at Warped … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 3Oh!3, Boston, Bostonist, Brokencyde, crunkcore, Dashboard Confessional, emo, Fugazi, Jeffree Star, Millionaires, music, My So Called Punk, punk, scrunk, Vagrant, Warped Tour

Mayday, Mayday

July 22, 2009 / Leave a Comment

  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, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Attack Attack, Bostonist, Breathe Carolina, Eminem, emo, Frank Carter, Gallows, Kevin Lyman, Millionaires, music, punk, scrunk, Warped Tour, Warped Tour 2009

Scoop?

July 20, 2009 / Leave a Comment

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 as sure as I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Absolutepunk, America Is Just A Word: Post-Hardcore Emo and American Culture, Attack Attack, Brokencyde, emo, Jason Tate, Jon Caramanica, Millionaires, music, New York Times, scrunk, The Boston Phoenix, Warped Tour

A Brief Scribe on Scrunk

July 16, 2009 / Leave a Comment

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 say that my article caused these … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Absolutepunk, Ani DiFranco, Bob Dylan, Brokencyde, Creed, crunkcore, Elvis, emo, Fugazi, Gallows, Green Day, James Brown, Joy Division, Liz Phair, Madonna, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Millionaires, Moby, music, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Notorious BIG, P.O.S., Prince, Public Enemy, Ray Charles, Robert Johnson, scrunk, Scrunk Happens, Shooter Jennings, Talking Heads, The Beatles, The Boston Phoenix, The Fugees, the Sex Pistols, Warped Tour

There Appears To Be An Event Happening

July 15, 2009 / Leave a Comment

  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 site for the article, or pick up the issue … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Absolutepunk, Brokencyde, Confide, crunk, emo, Jason Tate, Jessica Hopper, Kevin Lyman, Millionaires, music, screamo, scrunk, Such Great Heights, The Boston Phoenix, The Happening, The Postal Service, Warped Tour
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