On May 14th, 2008 Evergreen Terrace came strolling through the slums of Toronto and we figured we’d meet up with them and ask them what the heck was up.
Madeline is the debut album by Fort Collins band Tickle Me Pink, released on September 4, 2007, under the Wind-up Records label. It has been said that this album focuses on many major issues in today’s world, including mortality, drug use, suicide, loss, brutal breakups to name but a few.
Madeline is the debut album by Fort Collins band Tickle Me Pink, released on September 4, 2007, under the Wind-up Records label.
It’s tough to believe that nearly a decade ago, Dustin Kensrue et al. began a Warped Tour-friendly punk band in sunny Orange County.
A cold November’s night in 2007 it was when we hit up the Sound Academy in Toronto, Ontario for a chat with Strung Out bassist Chris Aiken before they played with fellow punk rockers NoFX that night.
While the name Evergreen Terrace might suddenly cause your mind to jump to thoughts of The Simpsons, it’s also the name of a current alternative rock band.
“Because I’m stubborn,” Tom Gabel openly and easily admits about half way through our conversation. We chatted about a number of topics mainly concerning his too-good-to-be-true 10 year old punk rock-‘n-folk entity, Against Me!.
Very few punk bands crack into the mainstream and even less of them do it with a political message. Chicago’s Rise Against have screamed for political activism and social responsibility since 1999, but it wasn’t until the release of their major label debut, Siren Song of the Counter Culture, that they did it on a mass scale. The album sold in excess of 500,000 copies and introduced their viewpoint and ideals to a whole new audience.
On July 18th, this year’s roaming, thundering beast that is SOTU hit Toronto, Canada. We caught up with Darkest Hour guitarist Mike Schleibaum for an on-the-fly interview.
We caught up with Against Me! drummer Warren Oakes for a chat about, the soon-to-be-released new album New Wave, how to react to “a rise to fame”, and of course… when not to wear short-shorts.
Florida-based punkers, Against Me!, played a great opener for Mastodon. While there, we interviewed drummer Warren Oakes and he is one heck of a nice dude!
Seattle’s “horror punk scene”, Aiden, was part of Rockstar’s Taste of Chaos Tour pit stop at Arrow Hall. Terrifying displays were snagged with a Canon EOS 20D & Canon 17-85mm f4-5.6 USM IS.
It’s a strange phenomenon, but there seems to be something special about bands that only stay together for a short span. Take for instance The Beatles or Led Zeppelin, two of rock and roll’s greatest ever groups and they each lasted only one decade. Nirvana, the most popular rock band of the 1990s, lasted only about seven years before the band split up…