Here's your warning - 7 Seconds I was already to write this off as baby's first hardcore (because it was this baby's first hardcore) from some indirect peer pressuring that casts 7 Seconds as exactly that, but this holds up. I think it does. It's... harder... than i remember, and hence i'm braver in showing how much i like it. It's the whoa-oh's and because they are so bluntly and unavoidably socially conscious (in that 802s way) that it seems so uncool, but curse [...]
On Saturday, I headed out for the first music fest that I've gone to since Warped Tour and Skate and Surf back in 2003. I usually am not a fan of large music festivals, but the lineup of Riot Fest East was completely stellar, and I got tickets on craigslist for pretty damn cheap, so there was no way I was missing this all day punk fest (even if I was in the pit with a broken arm cast).Riot
photos by Chris Boarts Larson , words by BBG 7 Seconds After a crazy Friday , the Saturday of Best Friends Day 2011 included a 10AM set at a grocery store with Night Birds (who recently played Public Assembly ), a show at Hadad's lake with Against Me! (who recently played House of Vans ), Baroness , 7 Seconds , Big Freedia (who also [...]
The initial lineup for this year's Best Friends Day has been announced. This year's edition will be happening August 18-21 in Richmond, VA and will feature performances from Against Me! , 7 Seconds , Converge , Corrosion of Conformity ( Animosity ), Pg. 99, Baroness Strike Anywhere , Off With Their Heads , Jesuit, Dead to Me , Iron Lung , Little Ozzy, Victims, No BS Brass Band, Screaming Females , Dear Landlord , Magrudergrind , The Dopamines , The Catalyst, The Arrivals [...]
I know some people that hate the contemporary music scene. And they have sound reasoning. Whether their argument hinges on everything being derivative of the past or technology corrupting all organic creation, you can't really dispute the tendency of all things toward chaos, I believe it's a law of thermodynamics or something. Yeah, entropy. I bet these people were watching bands like Sleep or 7 Seconds on Saturday at Los Angeles' FYF Fest and thinking that music would never get back to the raw intensity that those bands provided. I can't imagine what the hardcore crowd would think [...]
The annual FYF Fest (F'ck Yeah Festival) in Los Angeles wet our indie-music-loving ears this past weekend and yours truly was present to get the goods! More like it: YOUR FACE HERE: FYF Fest 2010 LIVE REVIEW: All Shook Down Festival 2010 LIVE REVIEW: Sunset Strip Music Festival 8/28/2010
I've been a little slow on the blog this summer, with good reason - dog, new job, no money, etc - but I figure it's kind of my duty to kick you guys down with the details for this year's FYF Fest, since I've done it pretty much every year.... The lineup was announced a week or 2 ago and includes some pretty awesome shit that we've written about in the past.... For starters, fucking UNBROKEN is on this years FYF lineup. Yeah, and I do mean the Life Love Regret [...]
Interpunk has announced the lineup for American Skate Fest taking place on June 25th and 26th at Skatopia in Rutland, OH. You can't go wrong with GWAR and skateboarding. Line-up GWAR, Fishbone, Meat Puppets, Agent Orange, D.I., CJ Ramone, Machine 22, Agression, Dirty Filthy Mugs, Mustard Plug, Murphy's Law, Teenage Bottlerocket, Downtown Brown, Trusty, Fast Piece [...]
Shirts for a Cure have announced the full lineup for their annual SXSW day party starting at noon at Red 7 (611 East 7th Street) on Friday March 19th. The lineup is stacked with appearances by 7 Seconds, Rival Schools, Fucked Up, Strike Anywere, The Riverboat Gamblers,Dead to Me and more. Support Shirts for a [...]
Yes, that's right! Today marks six months of me doing this. Of being dull (in print) and recording 6 months of songs in my head. Of inadvertently exposing my prejudices, lackings, my stick in the mud-ings regarding music and my commentary on it. Of playing this kind of roulette. It was really easy to do. I missed only those few days i was on holiday. There lies a testament to my ability to wake up in my own bed every morning. And to what a rut i am in. Sliding this experiment into such a rut was no difficult thing. [...]
If you know punk, or even if you used to pretend to know punk at parties to pick up girls, you know BYO Records, even if you don't realize you do. They were a vital part of the L.A. scene in the early 80s and created a formidable legacy thereafter, putting out records from everyone from Social Distortion to 7 Seconds to NoFX. Now they've put together an equally formidable boxset, and you can win a copy courtesy of the ole' TW. The boxset contains 2 LPs, 1 CD, one documentary DVD and one hardcover book, all chronicling the legacy [...]
Few things, if anything, are better than the first several 7 Seconds records. 7 Seconds have been on my most-wanted-to-see list for probably going on 20 years now and I finally got to see them this year in support for the 10 year anniversary Bouncing Souls tour. The 7 Seconds set killed. Kevin Seconds needs to be lauded for his ability to maintain vocals while having armies of stage diving kids vying to dog pile him. Many of them were successful. Really fun show, but now [...]
Legendary forebearers of California punk/hardcore culture Youth Brigade--who, yes, are still together and are still playing out as much as possible--are coming to Europa in Greenpoint, Brooklyn this coming Saturday night for a show celebrating the limited theater release of...
When you name put as many funs in your name as Fun Fun Fun Fest does, it better be good. Fortunately, the Austin based music festival usually does a good job living up to its name. After all, the 2009 edition, scheduled to take place from November 7-8, certainly exemplifies this fact, as organizers have once again put together one amazingly solid, incredibly electric lineup that can't help but, well, result in some fun. The Jesus Lizard, Of Montreal, Mission of Burma, Ratatat, The Pharcyde, and Destroyer head the recently unveiled 2009 bill. Other acts of [...]
Last Saturday night, I headed out to the sold out None More Black, 7 Seconds, and Bouncing Souls show at Philly's Trocadero. Since this was a lineup that I definitely did not want to miss, I made sure to get there damn early. After waiting in the torrential flood for a good 25 minutes, by the time doors opened, I (and the majority of the crowd) looked like we all decided to go deep sea diving
The guys who put the pogo back into New Jersey are celebrating 20 years of fast, catchy punk rock this weekend. In the midst of a set of four celebratory shows between the Garden Staters' adopted big cities, New York and Philadelphia, the Bouncing Souls have brought out some heavy hitters for backup. Not only is Kevin Seconds giving his acoustic guitar a rest in favor of fronting his influential punk band 7Seconds (who are going on thirty years!) but reunited hardcore darlings [...]
You may remember my excitement a few weeks ago at the announcement that Rights of the Accused (featuring my good friend Wes Kidd) and Wax were reuniting for a show at Riot Fest in Chicago , October 7-11. The Fest keeps adding acts to the 4-day, multiple venue punk rock festival. Just announced (thanks Bill) are: 7 Seconds, Cobra Skulls, Deals Gone Bad, The Bomb, Das Kapital, Beer Nuts, The Pinstripes and She Likes Todd. Here's the schedule and, as always, you can keep up to date with the [...]
Start with Day 2 Day Parties I had exactly 12 seconds to hit my room, clear the day's photos off the camera, and run back across to the faaar west side of town. Night Two in Austin was going to start with a one-two shot of Silver Lake, CA. 1. Eulogies Eulogies was a band I'd heard a ton of good things about from reviewers outta Silver Lake. Makes sense as the reviewers I know gotta thing for fuzzy shoegazey stuff with chimey guitars (but who doesn't [...]
A double-shot of covers for this fine Friday. Rock out with the Umlaut: Side A Donny Hathaway "Jealous Guy" (John Lennon) Radiohead "Nobody Does It Better" (Carly Simon) Maritime "Boy From School" (Hot Chip) Dawn Landes "Young Folks" (Peter, Bjorn & John) Crooked Fingers "When You Were Mine" (Prince) Side B Beck "Do You Realize?" [...]
Song: U.S.A. for U.S.A. Artist: Carnivore Album: Retaliation Comments: Pete Steele is one big guy and he works out. He could kick your ass just by looking at you. When he was in Carnivore and at Sunday matinees he stood above everyone else. Pete's ideas in Carnivore basicall took Agnostic Front's "Public Assistance" x 1000. He wasn't quite Skrewdriver and rarely called out individuals, but the ideas melded with Venom meets NYHC was pretty engaging. Song: V.H.V Artist: Masters of Reality Album: Sunrise on the Sufferbus Comments: I found the original [...]
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