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...survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily punctuated guitar work embraces a delayed lead guitar line; double kick drumming outlines a simple but conspicuously slow tempo, and the crash symbol weaves the disparate strands together. These are all acceptable punk ingredients—or, in the wrong hands, a recipe for nausea. Unfortunately, the latter is the case here. Our first reaction (the gag reflex): Isn’t Blink 182 a bit young to have a tribute band on its coattails? Our second reaction (the cogitative reaction): This is elevator...
...punks, and make no bones about it. So where does that leave those who criticize them in terms of their punk violations? Nursing their own straw men. While their commercial efforts are, in the eyes of most punk rockers, ignoble, even criminal, it is hard to argue with any band who have chosen to share their music with a greater number, to spread whatever message they have (or pretend to have), rather than stroking the angsty egos of a highly insular—and an increasingly elitist and hierarchical—punk culture. They are, in a sense, punks within...
...transformed into the performance space that hosts rock bands of all stripes today. To describe the venue as intimate would be an understatement—the distance between performers and audience has disappeared, and what remains is a joyous, raucous romp through the noise and stage antics of the punk and indie rock bands performing there...
...past year is quickly approaching infinity, and translates into a hollow gimmick to sell more records—platitudes are often the worst kind of compliment. But to reinforce the pre-existing hype, nostalgia has been hanging oppressively in air for a band whose musical roots include punk and brit-pop. Such a noble rock lineage evokes memories of music’s halcyon days where songs were not a product nor a soundtrack for a car commercial, but rather signified subversion and an affront to the establishment. Arguably, that time never existed and the Strokes are simply a cleverly...
...change in the music. The band’s set followed closely the track ordering off their new album with no frills or deviations to the tracks, and, to the surprise and dismay of many, but with my respect, no encores. The Strokes ripped through the set of pop-punk delights including crowd favorites “Last Nite,” “Someday” and “Hard to Explain.” To describe the music, of course, there are the already clichéd Velvet Underground comparisons, but I maintain that they sound...