Oso planning to go pro
Anyone going to the IDLES show at the Riverside tomorrow?
I heard Matthew Bellamy refer to them as the British RATM.Listened to some... it isn't a very accurate comparison.
Very interested to see how they sound. One of my favorite live bands of the 2010s. They were just magnificent. Brian Fallon has been through a lot and put on a lot of weight last I saw, which isn't necessarily a voice killer, but should be interesting to see.
I'm seeing Gaslight Anthem next month on their reunion tour. I just saw The Killers for the first time live. Damn, Flowers is one hell of a frontman and performer. Great balance between the spectacle with lights, confetti, etc., and the music. One of the best live shows I've ever seen.
Saw Gaslight Anthem last Monday Thought they were alright, Brian's voice isn't suited for some songs anymore. Probably why his last solo albums have been slow and meh. Also saw airborne toxic event since I stopped posting consistently. That was a great show. Other recent shouts include Parquet Courts & Fontainnes D.C.
RIP DH Peligro, drummer of the Dead Kennedys.https://pitchfork.com/news/d-h-peligro-dead-kennedys-drummer-dies-at-63/
Porky in mourning. The DK's influenced Porky's straight edge hardcore years tremendously in the mid eighties. They are without question the most influential American Hardcore band to ever grace the squalid stages of that era. https://greenroom-radio.com/2016/03/14/top-10-bands-of-american-hardcore/#:~:text=DEAD%20KENNEDYS%20was%20by%20far,level)%20as%20they%20were%20influential.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybw_ffqDfHY
I’d argue that title would go to Black Flag or Minor Threat. But DKs were monstrous, undeniable forces of nature.
you wore their t-shirts when you wanted to piss everyone off.
I am not sure about who was more influential musically, but DK most definitely was the larger cultural influence. They were right in the sights of the pearl clutchers worried about song lyrics, culminating in Jello's obscenity trial of course. Growing up in the early to mid 80s, you wore their t-shirts when you wanted to piss everyone off.
DK is overrated. IMO, they have a million albums and 90% of their songs are interchangeable and the lyrics are lost on the airheads who heard Holiday in Cambodia or California Uber Alles on Guitar Hero. It's sort of like bad religion, melodic punk was already a thing by the time they stopped being hardcore, the lyrics are lost on people and the majority of songs are interchangeable. .
Huh.I'd argue quite the opposite. The DK were a much better and much more musically varied band than Black Flag, whose notoriety was built more on the Henry Rollins cult of personality than their best music, the great majority of which came with Keith Morris on the mic.A million albums? The Kennedys released a grand total of four studio albums. "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" remains the best hardcore album ever released.
Wait wait you're saying the best hardcore album ever? Not best from the early 80s scene not best hardcore punk but overall best hardcore?
I mean, yeah. Maybe we have different definitions of hardcore. I certainly have punk albums I like better, but I wouldn't categorize them as hardcore.
"Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" remains the best hardcore album ever released.