Bear In Heaven play tonight at Lincoln Hall . Boasting one of my favorite LPs of last year, as well as live performances at P4k, you could say I'm a little bit excited for this one. As far as I know tix are still selling, too. Bear In Heaven - Deafening Love The rest of this post will be looking backwards to an era that makes kids these days look like a bunch of pussies. The Minor Threat , who released this around [...]
Ever since they rose from the dark streets of New York's Bowery via Queens, the Ramones have been worshiped by punks and pop fans alike. And rightly so. The faux brothers - make that bruddahs - invented a completely new sound, blending outsider angst with bubblegum pop, for a hybrid style that's still popular today. Though it took a decade for bands to begin aping the Ramones directly, the style the quartet invented went on to become a full-fledged punk rock sub-genre: Ramones-core. Here's a look at some of its best proponents: Chixdiggit! [...]
This is the first proper post in my Time Slip series. It's summertime....that means it's time for punk rock. Death By Television was the second album by Newcastle, Wyoming's The Lillingtons . The Lillingtons had released one album prior, titled Shit Out of Luck , to Death By Television but shed the normal lyrical content of pop punk bands (girls, booze, heartbreak, drugs, high school) to focus on something a little more nerdy. Death By Television [...]
My new daughter, Teagan Reese, was born a week ago today and that day also happened to be exactly 4 years from my first post on this blog. During the 4 years that CYSTSFTS has been in existence, I've made my affinity for pop punk no secret. It's the music I grew up listening to and the music that keeps me young at heart. There are many different definitions of what exactly pop punk is and with this series of 30 or so posts I'll do my best to broadly define (in MP3's) [...]
You dig Teenage Bottlerocket? Well who doesn't these days? Unfortunately, they only have three full length albums, so thank god for The Lillingtons.Formed back in 1995, The Lillingtons were Kody Templeman's (Teenage Bottlerocket) earlier band, and the influences between the two bands show. Newcastle Wymoning's Lillingtons sound exactly like Teenage Bottlerocket, if Bottlerocket were to sing
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