So Dominic emailed me about two weeks ago reminding me to update this thing, so here I am finally doing that. I guess not alot of stupid music industry stuff is surprising me as of late, but here's a couple of blurbs.
Major labels are notorious for signing soundalikes once trends get big. Creed and Blink are two prime examples. However, I ran across this new band MTV is hyping called Sterogram who I find rather intriguing. This band from New Zealand made up of quirky 19 year olds who are obviously being pushed more for their teenage cuteness than their music so they keep showing footage of them being quirky instead of playing their music. So what do they sound like? Well they?re the lamest blend of crappy rapping over lame pop-punk that sounds more like someone reciting nursery rhymes over the 60?s Batman theme than Green Day. This stuff is utter shit, but what intrigued me is they sound like an exact ripoff of a band called Zebrahead, who came out on a major in the late 90?s and featured the same brand of novelty rapping over third rate rock riffs. Now majors do the sound alike thing all the time, but now they?re signing and hyping a band that sounds like another band who never really got popular and now have to open for indie bands like the Vandals and Less Than Jake. So why try attempt to replicate a band that went nowhere? I?m guessing it?s because kids are dumb and they?ll buy into whatever trend you hand them and they don?t see thorough the bullshit the man deals them. But I guess the real losers in this situation are probably Zebrahead because while they?re struggling as has-beens, a bunch of gangly, pizza faced kiwis are getting a bunch of hype by stealing their failed gimmick.
Speaking of has-beens, the whole ?screamo? thing has gotten bigger and bigger and some concert to raise awareness for animal rights is being advertised in Orange County. The biggest and most mediocre of the mall punk scene are all involved to help jump on that trendy bandwagon of animal compassion that is more about getting laid than saving chickens. Anyway, the event is being headlined by legends of the mall-punks scene, Goldfinger. That?s right, the original Poison of pop-ska are going to tear it up headlining over the countless bands they?ve helped influence and who have gone on to overpopulate the scene with rich kids and make half the bands at the Warped Tour lame. So hats off to Goldfinger, the original heavy metal poseurs emulating punk, and who paved the way for a generation like the NOFX and Fugazi before them. Hopefully, they?ll open with ?Here in Your Bedroom? to remind the scene know what it?s all about.
Sound Check-
Pretty Girls Make Graves- The New Romance
HIM-Razorblade Romance
Descendents- ?Mercian E.P.
Living End ?Modern Artillery
Alkaline Trio- Entire Catalogue
Other Ways I?ve Been Wasting My Time
City of God- No other word can describe this film except for amazing. Go see it asap.
Dawn of the Dead remake- Doesn?t have the greatness of the original, but really good none the less.
New Episodes of Sopranos- Steve Buscemi should be on every TV show.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser- Funfact; Ronald McDonald is and asshole.
Budd Rubb, the Muffler Whistle Expert- Too Cool for Words
Major labels are notorious for signing soundalikes once trends get big. Creed and Blink are two prime examples. However, I ran across this new band MTV is hyping called Sterogram who I find rather intriguing. This band from New Zealand made up of quirky 19 year olds who are obviously being pushed more for their teenage cuteness than their music so they keep showing footage of them being quirky instead of playing their music. So what do they sound like? Well they?re the lamest blend of crappy rapping over lame pop-punk that sounds more like someone reciting nursery rhymes over the 60?s Batman theme than Green Day. This stuff is utter shit, but what intrigued me is they sound like an exact ripoff of a band called Zebrahead, who came out on a major in the late 90?s and featured the same brand of novelty rapping over third rate rock riffs. Now majors do the sound alike thing all the time, but now they?re signing and hyping a band that sounds like another band who never really got popular and now have to open for indie bands like the Vandals and Less Than Jake. So why try attempt to replicate a band that went nowhere? I?m guessing it?s because kids are dumb and they?ll buy into whatever trend you hand them and they don?t see thorough the bullshit the man deals them. But I guess the real losers in this situation are probably Zebrahead because while they?re struggling as has-beens, a bunch of gangly, pizza faced kiwis are getting a bunch of hype by stealing their failed gimmick.
Speaking of has-beens, the whole ?screamo? thing has gotten bigger and bigger and some concert to raise awareness for animal rights is being advertised in Orange County. The biggest and most mediocre of the mall punk scene are all involved to help jump on that trendy bandwagon of animal compassion that is more about getting laid than saving chickens. Anyway, the event is being headlined by legends of the mall-punks scene, Goldfinger. That?s right, the original Poison of pop-ska are going to tear it up headlining over the countless bands they?ve helped influence and who have gone on to overpopulate the scene with rich kids and make half the bands at the Warped Tour lame. So hats off to Goldfinger, the original heavy metal poseurs emulating punk, and who paved the way for a generation like the NOFX and Fugazi before them. Hopefully, they?ll open with ?Here in Your Bedroom? to remind the scene know what it?s all about.
Sound Check-
Pretty Girls Make Graves- The New Romance
HIM-Razorblade Romance
Descendents- ?Mercian E.P.
Living End ?Modern Artillery
Alkaline Trio- Entire Catalogue
Other Ways I?ve Been Wasting My Time
City of God- No other word can describe this film except for amazing. Go see it asap.
Dawn of the Dead remake- Doesn?t have the greatness of the original, but really good none the less.
New Episodes of Sopranos- Steve Buscemi should be on every TV show.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser- Funfact; Ronald McDonald is and asshole.
Budd Rubb, the Muffler Whistle Expert- Too Cool for Words
