The News Review:
- Village Greene Music Series
- Rancid reclaims its roots
- Pop and Rock Listings
- John Doe Balances Punk and Country With X and the Sadies
- BLISTER IN THE SUN
Village Greene Music Series
Jewish Times of Southern New Jersey
The Village Greene is encouraging local artists to perform and be supported for keeping the arts alive in South Jersey. The first groups to perform on Friday July 3 with be Cover 3 and Township Rebellion. Cover 3 is a local band that plays Happy Punk music and Township Rebellion originates from the sticks of South Jersey and is a punk cover band. If you are into Rancid Bouncing Souls or the Dropkick Murphys this band is for you. Friday July 10 is a Car Cruise night. Performing during the car show will be Denise Miller Elevator Art and Sherry & Bruce Townsend. All wil be playing folk and lite rock.
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Rancid reclaims its roots
San Jose Mercury News
But after more than a half-decade apart musically the East Bay quartet — who will do a homecoming concert Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); of sorts at akland’s racle Arena next Thursday — is ready to reclaim its singular sound. As Green Day the group’s onetime peers in Berkeley’s Gilman Street punk scene in the ’80s and ’90s issues its second arena-sized rock opera “21st Century Breakdown” Rancid’s “Dominoes” offers a prickly blend of humid dub reggae and late-’70s punk that doesn’t stray too far from early ’90s hits such as “Time Bomb” and “Ruby Soho” songs that vaulted the band into the pop consciousness. “All the records have their own particular smell about them and they smell the same way today as they did in ‘95″ says guitarist and singer Lars Frederiksen. “We’ve been a band for a long while and it’s hard to ignore that. But this is the beginning of the next 17 years. ” Punk has changed dramatically around Rancid in the past decade grafting elements of pure pop prog-rock metal and electronica onto its three-chord skeleton.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times
★ AFR-PUNK FESTIVAL (Friday through Wednesday) This film skate and music festival in its fifth year celebrates skateboarding and playing punk rock as a cross-cultural expression despite the fact that the genre — and the sport — have long been considered the exclusive domain of skinny white men with mohawks. This year’s incarnation held in the parking lot of the.
John Doe Balances Punk and Country With X and the Sadies
Spinner
” In addition to playing punk rock with X Doe has maintained a solo career since 1990. This past April he released a country album called ‘Country Club’ a collaboration with Canadian group the Sadies. With the exception of a few original compositions the majority of the album consists of covers of songs previously recorded by.
BLISTER IN THE SUN
Bend Bulletin
“This is a cover song” announced lead vocalist Sam Fisher. “That’s why it’s good. ”The Bend-based quartet does pure pop-punk music pinpoint precise in its homage to revered punk icons The Descendents. And it is an absolute blast. Fisher leads the way through noose-tight three-minute (at most) tunes that pop and fuzz in all the right ways and bounce back and forth among timeworn lyrical themes: drinking beer hanging out alienation politics and more beer. In his gravelly nasal voice Fisher jumps seamlessly from bluebird powder days to decrying American flags made in China to sipping daiquiris on the beach all delivered through endlessly catchy melodies. The rest of the band — Sean Garvin Ben Jones and Chris Murra — is a pop-punk powerhouse that materialized fully formed seemingly on the local music scene just a year or so ago.