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Green Day singer-guitarist, Billie Joe Armstrong, once proclaimed in song, "I'm a smart-ass, but I'm playing dumb," and for many years his performance was seamless. Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool met in their late teens and displayed natural gifts for propulsive, funny, disposable punk-pop songs about masturbation and alienation. In 1994 Dookie, their first major-label album, sold 10 million copies. Multimillionaires at 22, the members of Green Day settled into a routine of churning out blink-and-they're-over records followed closely by triumphant world tours. They were not quite...
...David Thompson pursued on of the first careers he considered, he might today be a guitarist in an alternative-rock band. But Thompson, 35, became intrigued with climate and weather, and just three years after he enrolled for graduate study at the University of Washington, he and his faculty adviser, John M. Wallace, published an attention-grabbing paper that announced the discovery of the Arctic Oscillation, an important new cog in the earth's climate machine...
...more successful alumni bands convened at the Lizard Lounge to play a set of heart-felt and polished songs off of their debut album, Presenting the Great Unknowns. This 10-song collection of “rock music for the road,” as lead singer and rhythm guitarist Becky Warren dubs it, was released by Daemon Records...
Warren, along with Mike J. Palmer ’03 (guitarist and Eliot House alum), Andy C. Eggers ’99 (drummer/mandolinist and Mather alum) and Altay Guvench ’03 (bassist and Pforzheimer House alum) has constructed a group of strikingly diverse tracks, which share an underpinning sensibility and a roots-rock/Americana vibe that never sounds derivative despite occasional homage to early Wilco, Son Volt or Uncle Tupelo...
Their excitement carried through in their vibrant performance at the Lizard Lounge. Though they don’t have a particularly physically dynamic stage presence (with the exception of guitarist Palmer), the Unknowns play their songs with a certain verve that suggests a band truly enjoying their music and performance...