The News Review:
- Fall ut Boy plays Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday
- ne nation under punk
- Eddie and Hot Rods on the road again
Fall ut Boy plays Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday
Baltimore Sun
If they’re playing Merriweather Post Pavilion they’re not yesterday’s news quite yet. Beyond Wentz’s tabloid-fodder life part of Fall ut Boy’s appeal has been its ability to push the boundaries of the emo-punk sound the band has long embraced. “Though Fall ut Boy’s sound may have offended the more polarized punk music fanatics it has not hurt FB’s popularity one iota” says Ashley Dos Santos an executive with Crosby-Volmer International Communications a Washington-based public relations firm where she specializes in pop and tween social marketing. Dos Santos says the group’s verbose and high-powered approach to typically low-key navel-gazing emo appeals to the crowd that “can go from seeing the new. But we’re talking about a fickle bunch whose tastes change like the wind. Given recent spiraling CD sales and the incredibly short shelf life of teen-pop acts it’s a wonder Fall ut Boy has maintained such a high-profile over the past four years with two consecutive platinum-plus albums.
ne nation under punk
UWEC Spectator
Fall for Glory’s drummer Jeremy Mitchell who is a Chippewa Valley Technical College student also had a part in putting the show together. “We worked something out because The Stones Throw has been wanting to put a punk show together for some time now” Mitchell said. “I hope that since they don’t play a lot of punk music people finally see that there is a punk music scene in Eau Claire. Punk-3722587-page2.
Eddie and Hot Rods on the road again
San Jose Mercury News
In England punk was more about fashion which I didn’t like. “Indeed it is probably more accurate to identify Eddie and the Hot Rods (which performs at the Blank Club Saturday) with a movement called pub rock which emerged in England a few years before punk rock started to make headlines. Like punk pub rock was a movement that brought rock music back to its club roots. At the time superstar bands like Yes and Emerson Lake and Palmer were playing increasingly elaborate — some might say pretentious — music that was being showcased in cavernous arenas. However the more R&B-influenced pub rock bands weren’t overtly anti-authoritarian and didn’t embrace the tattered clothing Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); and spiky-haired fashion of punk bands like the Sex Pistols.
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