punk

There's a light I hold before me . Content Warning.
May the ghosts that howled ‘round the house at night / Never keep you from your sleep / May they all sleep tight down in hell tonight / Or wherever they may be... [Lullaby of London : MacGowan, 1988]
By Conor Darrall2 years ago in Beat
That was embarrassing. Content Warning.
The party was in full swing, the music pulsating through the air, and laughter echoing off the walls. It was one of those lively gatherings where people from all walks of life converged for a night of celebration. Little did I know, this night would etch a memory in my mind under the category of "That was embarrassing."
By Nexus Narrator2 years ago in Beat
So I Talked to ChatGPT About AxCx (IT DIDN’T GO WELL). Content Warning.
In the modern era, businesses have to be insanely careful not just what they say, but what their products, representatives and employees do. What they have to say, what they stand for, what they believe, both the left and right are willing to boycott over the slightest little disagreement. When your product is a sometimes erratic AI, you have to be extra careful about what it says. Maybe that’s when I wanted to talk about Seth Putnam and Anal Cunt, our conversation kept getting flagged and censored.
By Regular Person2 years ago in Beat
Halloween Heavies
Halloween is a time for soaping cars, vandalizing your neighbor's house with toilet paper rolls, playing with Ouija Boards, trespassing into graveyards at night, and who knows? maybe committing mass human sacrifice at some hitherto undisclosed location run by a drug cartel in Buenos Aires and presided over by a huge, skulking, black-clad woman named Juanita. It's all fun and games until someone loses a soul.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Beat
lucy's top songs sept/oct edition
top songs playlist full oct playlist 1. Cassiopeia by Bears In Trees even the slightest reference to greek mythology is always gonna get my attention (its the percy jackson stan in me) and the first line of this song is “you were talking on zoom about women in ancient greece” WELL. women and ancient greece. consider my attention caught.
By lucyjb2 years ago in Beat
Ten Underrated Fall Out Boy Songs
DISCLAIMER: this is just my interpretation/opinions so you don't have to agree, but if you wanna get mad about it please for the love of god go find someone who actually cares and waste their time instead.
By lucyjb2 years ago in Beat
My First Concert Ever. Top Story - September 2023.
I went to my first concert ever last night, on 9/15/2023, to see my favorite band since 2017, Icon for Hire. I wanted to make going there extra special by getting the highest VIP package there is, the pre-show party. This includes going onto the tour bus and actually hanging out with Ariel, Shawn, and Flicka.
By Rene Peters2 years ago in Beat
Hüsker Dü - "The Living End"
Searching, ever searching... Melodies soar, the guitars fuzz and buzz, and staccato drumbeats fire like miniature truth grenades onto the top of the listener's skull. Bob Mould holds forth with a middling plaintive growl, somewhere between a reasoned, cultured singer and someone pleading for the return of his soul from a very, very dark place, with enough harsh, abrasive tinge to his snotboy vocalizations to offset the bitterness and grief. But all of that is what you'd expect from a rock review, right?
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Beat
I Ran a Punk Music Fanzine
Although there had been fan-based magazines around long before the arrival of punk rock, it was via that genre that I was introduced to them. In the early days, Mark Perry’s crude effort Sniffin’ Glue was as prominent in the music press as some of the bands. While I never actually came into contact with a copy of that Vanguard organ (the general consensus is that it wasn’t great), I’d seen enough by way of newspaper features to rouse the sleeping editor within me.
By Joe Young2 years ago in Beat
Rifkin's Final Victim
Dave Rubinstein (a.k.a. "Dave Insurgent") was the lead singer of Eighties hardcore punk pioneers REAGAN YOUTH, a band that started in the hallways of Forrest Hills Highschool in Queens, where the Ramones hail from. Originally created by Rubinstein, a rebellious youth whose father fought in WW2 and whose mother survived Auschwitz, Dave started the band with his friend Dave Bukija (Dave Cripple), often getting a physics teacher to roadie for them. In time, they changed their original name, which was "Pus," to the more marketable (but no less offensive) REAGAN YOUTH. The name is meant as a satirical joke on the right-wing conservative policies of Ronald Reagan, and the Hitler Youth.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Beat
My Favourite Front Man: Honouring Steve Harwell
Today we wake to the news of 90s alt behemoth, and lead singer of Smashmouth ,Steve Harwell's untimely death. As I have talked about on these pages, I am a music nerd. I'll listen to anything once, and many things twice. A lot of things, several. I've played piano since I was a child, so the ear was prepped, but still, Smashmouth remains the most pleasing to the ear for decades, and true masters of the story song - genre jesters doing their thing on every single one of their tracks, whilst staying true to their 1960s, easy listening vibe, even incorporating ska and punk elements, with that 90s edge. To me, true pioneers.
By Jessica Bailey2 years ago in Beat
Rate-O-Rama: Love is the Drug
Rate-O-Rama : Songmania is a reader participation game. About once a week I will publish a Rate-O-Rama article which will feature two or three versions of a popular song.
By Rick Henry Christopher 2 years ago in Beat