Blog: PopWreck(oning)

To be completely honest, as I was walking into St. Andrew's Hall last Monday night amidst the hordes of teenagers and frat boys, my expectations for the All-American Rejects were not very high. In my eyes, what could you possibly expect from a band whose first two singles were the same set of chord changes at different tempos? I was also very doubtful that bandleader Tyson Ritter could really hit all those notes. The City Lives took the stage first and surprised me. Their melodic power-pop was catchy and [...]