Today marks International Jawbreaker Appreciation Day – a perfect excuse to celebrate the rise and fall of a band that once wrote a song called 'Sluttering (May 4th)'. We got Alex Andrews on the case. "There was a sun once. It lit the whole damn sky…" It's difficult to pay tribute to a band that is responsible for so much of what you dislike about music. You could argue that a band has little control over its legacy, [...]
Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini actually does, but it makes sense that he'd prefer to be seen that way. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of countless numbers of recorded artifacts. And even though he's been an outspoken opponent of the major-label system (and of other underground-rock heroes), he's known to work with just about anyone who requests his services, whether it's a major-label juggernaut like '90s radio-grunge rulers Bush or the [...]
Download great new covers of Percy Sledge, St. Vincent, Tom Waits, Kanye West, The Kinks, The Hollies, Jawbreaker, and Mason Jennings!
By Friday afternoon the world will be in the midst of a full scale economic crash. By Monday, the rioting that occurred in the UK this week will be known as "the calm before the storm". This is NOT a test of the emergency broadcasting system! Wheeeeee!!!!!!!!
The Get Up Kids put forth a solid cover of Blur's "Girls and Boys" for AV Club's undercover series . While your there make sure to check out The Mountain Goat's cover of Jawbreaker.
The Mountain Goats cover Jawbreaker's 1994 classic "Boxcar" for Pitchfork, which still does some really cool stuff on its website even if they're not so indie cool anymore. The Mountain Goats cover Jawbreaker Here's the original version. Download Jawbreaker - "Boxcar".mp3 And some other punkish tracks from the two bands from some time ago. [...]
John Darnielle sempre buscou, em seu folk inteligente, uma abordagem lo-fi, agressiva e banhada no espírito "faça você mesmo". Logo, na passagem do The Mountain Goats pelo projeto A.V. Club Undercover , Darnielle e sua banda "de apoio" se sentiram em casa no estilo que reúne melhor todas essas características, o Punk, e escolheram a música Boxcar , do grupo Jawbreaker , para revisitar e reinventar. O Jawbreaker influenciou gêneros como o pop punk e o emocore, e esses estilos também transparecem na versão excelente e energética (incluindo [...]
John Darnielle and co. let loose on an unexpected punker-than-thou screed.
Video: Mountain Goats Cover Jawbreaker In which John Darnielle, Jon Wurster, and friends bring out their inner punk angst for an inspired take on Jawbreaker's 1994 cut "Boxcar" for this week's A.V. Undercover . As for his connection to the tune's retaliatory lyrics, Darnielle says: "You always feel a connection to that sort of thing because the whole thing is: everybody feels beleaguered at some point. I mean, that's the universal truth of punk… At the same time, I don't think I feel as beleaguered as the authors of the lyrics [...]
Representing different, but intertwining sections of my life/record collection, Mountain Goats and Jawbreaker cassettes got a lot of wear in my teenage boombox. They've come together magically via AV Club's Undercover series . Makes perfect sense. Darnielle & Co. tackle " Boxcar " from 19942s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy . "1-2-3-4 / Who's Punk, / What's the Score?," etc. Read More...
Busy - Jawbreaker Apparently Jawbreaker stopped playing this song around 1989, refusing all requests for it in the remaining seven years they were a band. I don't know why. There is probably a good reason for it. Being respectful about something, to someone, maybe? No longer wanting to stir up this song's cause and sentiment? To be dicks to their audience? I would never shout out for it, but i would stand there in silent, earnest, telepathic hope that they would play it. I'd [...]
whaaaa? 4 posts in one day? that hasnt happened since probably 2007! well i dont know if you can really count this, technically, as a post cause its actually a repost, but hey im logging in more than twice in a day! actually i log in quite a bit and actually start a lot of posts, but then never finish em for one reason or another. i probably have over 100 drafts of random shit that i shouldve gotten around to. sad thing is, its not like anyone comes here for the editorial content so i dont know what i [...]
Four new tunes. Five to add to your shopping list. Enjoy thoroughly. Richard Buckner "Traitor" from Our Blood Yuck "Milkshake" from Shook Down / Milkshake Forgetters (Blake Schwarzenback) "The Night Accelerates" from s/t Modest Mouse "That'll Be The Day" (Buddy Holly)" from Rave On Buddy Holly Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi "Problem Queen" (feat. Norah Jones) from ROME [...]
One of our favorite Web series, the ace "Dirty Laundry", continued their reign of profiling the excellent when they pulled Forgetters, the band that came from the wake of other wondrous indie rock acts from the mind/spirit of Blake Schwarzenbach, formerly of Jets To Brazil and Jawbreaker, to name just a few. The three-piece band [...]
#vinylsunday JAWBREAKER - DEAR YOU
The Young Leaves Life Underneath is all punk & shit ALBUM REVIEW: Were happy to say we've been fans of The Young Leaves from Massachusetts since their first singles and happy to see them put a vinyl version with some of the tracks included on Life Underneath via Drunken Sailor Records . They wear their influences on their proverbial tattoo'd sleeves. It's straight forward like Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr., Jawbreaker were. The singer guitarist Christopher from the band will tell you that straight up. Their demands [...]
When I think back to the '90s, so much comes to mind for me. That includes high school, flannel shirts, River Phoenix, beer bongs full of Natty Light and some of the best alternative music ever! Some of my favorite bands include Jawbreaker, Soul Asylum, and the Replacements. Currently, I have craved an updated version of that sound and been able to get my fix through bands like Cage the Elephant but I have also recently descovered another great band, Nightmares For A Week. Besides having a kick-ass name, this New York-based trio has a sound that drifts between the before [...]
Forgetters is Blake Schwarzenbach's latest project. I hope this one lasts longer than his last project, Thorns of Life, which I quite enjoyed as well. Rather than ramble on about whether or not this new material sounds more like Jawbreaker, or more like Jets to Brazil, I'll let you listen to "The Night Accelerates" below. Blake is joined by former Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon and bass player Caroline Pacquita. Seems like the same type line up as Thorns of Life, but I haven't confirmed if his bassist was part of the ensemble [...]
In just a little over a year from now, I'll be turning 30. Being as close to it as I am, it doesn't really seem so old anymore. I remember as a kid, even teenagers seemed like grown-ups to me, let alone 30-year-olds! By the time you're 30, you have a career and a house and a husband and kids and everything! Or so I thought. Sure, I have a job, and it's a real job insomuch as it involves neither working a cash register nor dunking a basket of French fries into hot oil. I [...]
When I meet someone new, I usually end up telling them I run and write for a music blog. More often than not a music fan will light up and try to find out which of their favorite bands I haven't heard of yet. I'm pretty well versed, but sometimes whatever band they're gushing about ends up being new to me. I promise to look into them, and I always do. I figure that if I don't know, maybe you don't. If YOU don't, then I am obligated to share them with you. Good or bad--although I try to [...]
Thrash Hits
Stereogum
Cover Me
Bleedin Out
Clean-Cut
VAGUE SPACE
Rock 'n' Beats
TwentyFourBit
Adding Machine
Captain's Dead
Unnecessary Umlaut
THE CULTURE OF ME
Together In Digital Dreams
Review Stalker
1146 miles
Ear Eye Nose Candy Blog
Radio Free Chicago
in ALL caps music blog
![The Dead Weather - Jawbreaker [HQ]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/NW89fzyjG7c_130.jpg)
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Antony and the Johnsons - "Rise"
Santigold – The Keepers (Duke Dumont Remix)
