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...Punk-ska lives! Although their sound was threatened with being lost in the doom, gloom and anger of alternative-rock, the Chicago band Mest scored a summer hit with "What's the Dillio?" However, the catchiness of the song also brought about a significant backlash, as the mantra of "What's the Dillio?" constantly spilling from the radio made the band seem inane and ultimately very lame...
...phrase in your article on Larry Harvey's Burning Man festival [LIVING, Sept. 18] hit a nerve: the comment that he moved the "punk-pagan celebration" from San Francisco to a "lifeless" desert northeast of Reno. I just spent four months working with people of the Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe tribes, who are indigenous to the Reno area. For them, the desert brims with life--animal, vegetable and human. How self-centered and arrogant it is for whites to think that a landscape without their culture and accumulated junk in it is lifeless. The puerile horde that invades the desert...
...Whew. From punk-pop to Britpop to hard rock to hip-hop. And that's not even the half of it. Time to get moving to a ticket agents...
Yeah, you heard me: saxophone solo. Frontman Billie Joe and the boys will certainly catch flak from the underground scene for this stripped-down follow-up to 1997's Nimrod. While it's not an album full of heartfelt "Good Riddance"-style ballads, it's still a punk purist's nightmare: mid-tempo strum-alongs with the trademark Green Day melodies but a distortion level of nil. First single "Minority" is probably the punkest song on the disc -and that's not saying much...
Heralded by many in the early '90s as the underground heroes of the punk-melodic metal scene, Sunny Day Real Estate has endured a long and torturous history, complete with a bitter break-up in 1995, the subsequent departure of two band members for the Foo Fighters and the conversion of current frontman, Jeremy Enigk to Christianity. The band's 1998 reunion saw the return of William Goldsmith, whose bombastic drum playing rounds out Enigk's rugged vocals and Dan Hoerner's pulsating guitar work...