The Slackers - Peculiar

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The Slackers take a few risks with Peculiar. Not in terms of the style mind you, as the band continues to be pretty much peerless in their approach to modern ska music, but in what they chose to include on this record. Most glaring is the fact that the lyrical content of 2004’s International War [...]

Top 20 Of 2004

Friday, December 31st, 2004

* This article is originally from Punknews.org , of course.
Ever since the leaves started to change I’ve been hyping “list making time” around the proverbial Punknews office like it was the coming of the Christian apocalypse. There’s a zeal us music geeks have for this that I can’t quite explain, comes with the occupation I [...]

Would you like some hot air with your coffee?

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

Someone emailed me this morning and asked me to comment on his essay thesis that the Internet was killing punk. As I drank my coffee and watched a horrible reprise of the He Man cartoon I wrote the below rant. It wasted too much of my time to just throw away, so here it is:
Well [...]