Word: punkness
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...though after writing a story that made fun of a theft of cereal at Harvard Business School, he was told he was not cut out for the work. “I think I lasted about two days,” he jokes, “I was some punk-ass freshman coming in, and at the time I had dreadlocks and five earrings and blue toenails, and I was probably—not probably—a little bit full of myself...
What makes Mississauga so fascinating, though, is the way that such lyrics don’t seem to fight for attention, but just simply rest on the (very catchy) melodies. Punk bands for years have been singing the same sort of things and, often in Germany, sometimes dramatizing them on-stage. But in those cases, sensationalism and emphasis are the key traits. For the Hidden Cameras, the opposite is true. And what makes this new disc even more powerful is the way in which “he swallowed my pee” can be followed two songs later...
...armor? Didn’t we look really good, really convincingly jaded, dressed in vintage clothing, eyebrow arched, drinking our coffee black? Hadn’t we founded a half-assed arts collective in our common room? Didn’t we know kind of a lot of punk songs? Couldn’t we quote Sylvia Plath to each other in flat voices—“Every woman adores a Fascist/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like you”? Didn’t we construe practically everything ironically? Weren?...
...punk-cum-emo favorites Jimmy Eat World come to Boston hot on the heels of their new CD Futures, which hit stores in October. The band broke into the mainstream with the ubiquitous hit “The Middle” in 2001 and have bounced back with an album that focuses on more mature themes without ever failing to rock. Frontman Jim Adkins is going to be there baring his soul, are you going to be there to hear it? With Razorlight and Recover. Tickets $20.25. 6:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom...
...joke band, though they started out as one. After debuting in 1993 at their eighth-grade talent show and briefly hooking up with a producer-Svengali, each member assumed the pretend first name Donna (flipping the Ramones' gimmick of assuming the same last name) and played superfast punk riffs stolen from the Dead Boys and Voidoids. On Gold Medal they're going by their real names, and they have expanded their thievery to include licks from Loverboy, Kiss and other high priests of shallow catchiness. The music is nothing you haven't heard before. Songs like Fall Behind...