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Not revolutionary as in new and inovative, but as in political and in fact talked a bit from the stage about Scotland’s upcoming vote for independence. It’s just him and his electric guitar playing revolutionary punk songs. Hell, he even did a song with Less Than Jake. Bragg has been doing it for years and influencing the like of Frank Turner along the way.

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Check out their rad video for their song “Reservoir” and you can even download some of their stuff free from here.įrom there I was off to catch the punk rock troubadour Billy Bragg. Keep an eye out for these guys as, as long as they don’t break up, they won’t be playing the small stage for long. It’s funny to say that a band is punk with pop sensibility, but not really pop punk.

They are out of Toronto and have been playing some of the big music festivals in Europe, so I thought I should give them a try, and I was really impressed by their sound and energy. On the way back, I stopped to check out a band that I had been hearing good things about on the interwebs called PUP. One that you should check out live when they play Club Red on October 12th and pickup their new record Pursuance that just came out. They play a pretty straight forward style hardcore punk, and put on a solid show. For those not familiar, Only Crime is a punk supergroup of sorts with the aforementioned Stevenson (Descendents, ALL, Black Flag), Russ Rankin of Good Riddance, and Aaron Dalbec of Bane (Zac Blair of Rise Against, Hagfish, and GWAR was in the band when it started as well but Rise Against was taking up all his time). I couldn’t miss my chance to be in the presence of Bill Stevenson for the fourth consecutive day (Filmage on Thursday, ALL Friday, Descendents Saturday). They played a set of all your favorites like “Kate Is Great”, “That Song”, and “Lean On Sheena” before closing it out with “True Believers”.Īt the same time as The Souls were playing, Only Crime was on across the festival grounds. If that thing could talk, the stories it could tell. To go along with Greg’s effortless style the rest of the band was rocking it, and I gotta say, my other favorite part of watching the Souls live is seeing Bryan’s road worn bass. Almost instantly during their opener “Gone”, Greg was in the barracade interacting with the fans with hand shake, high fives, and sing alongs.

It’s in no way boring to watch, but he is just so smooth. It’s almost like he is singing for another band when he is up there. It’s a calming force to the energetic music. Greg is one of my favorite vocalist live because he has such a swagger. While they are better live than on record, their new album Rented World is stellar.Īfter the Menzingers I mercifully had just enough time to go out and get a sandwich and power through a few beers (thank you press pass for allowing me to run across the street to get a few Founders Dirty Bastard for $5 as opposed to the $7 beers inside… oh, and the Founders wee heavy is 8.5% abv… The shot of Old Grandad helped me into my day as well) before The Bouncing Souls came on. They just cranked live, from the moment they hit the stage with “I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore”, playing great tunes like “Where Your Heartache Exists”, “I Was Born”, and “Good Things”. For some bands, it’s almost impossible to get their energy that they emit live to come through in a purely audio format. If you have heard their music, you know that they are damn good. I now that they have been around for a few year, but I just got in to them a year or so ago, and seeing them live with Off With Their Heads at The Yucca Tap Room at the beginning of the year cemented my love. I had to – HAD TO – get to Riot Fest by 11:45 am. I guess the best I could hope for was for me to not lose a shoe and have then step in the mud for the third consecutive day. Once again, I was hoping that the mudbog created with the rain on Friday would be gone, and well, as you can see, it wasn’t. If you give a shit about my life, feel free to listen in, or if you can ignore my life and like to listen to good music and keep up on punk news and new stuff that is coming out, listen in.īasically, it’s gonna be a much more personal music show where I don’t need to be too afraid to offend the listeners and I don’t really have a format.Īnyway, that’s what’s gonna be happening. One good thing that was happening was that I had my own radio show on KUKQ but that dies today so I’m am gonna keep doing a radio show, but gonna do a pod cast which will be a mix of music and what this blog was. I also don’t want to bullshit you fine folks, so I chose to not say anything. So, it’s been a while, and lots has happened… I should have been writing about my experiences in Chicago, but it was rough at the beginning and most of this blog is about the negative and I wanted to keep my life in a positive light.