Archive for February, 2010

February 24th, 2010

A Trio of Alkaline Trio Side Projects

By this point in their career, a new album by the Alkaline Trio is a fairly predictable occurrence. Though “This Addiction” has been generating press as a record that returns the band to their punk rock roots, it really doesn’t sound all that different from the their last few outings. You get the usual stuff [...]

February 19th, 2010

Fun with Flickr: Abbey Road

With news surfacing that sagging British music label EMI was looking to offload it’s Abbey Road studios for around $45 million in hopes of saving itself from extinction and the space from becoming an upscale housing development, we thought the term could prove a fun topic for our latest round of Fun with Flickr. Potential [...]

February 14th, 2010

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Though this website has the word punk in its name, that doesn’t mean we don’t also have a soft spot in our cold, cruel heart for metal. After all, we have seen Testament live, memorized the Chris Holmes section of “Decline of the Western Civilization II Part II: The Metal Years” and appeared in a [...]

February 3rd, 2010

Punk Rock Restauranteurs

Food and punk rock go together like food and ice skating. Which is to say they don’t really go together at all (unless of course you’re the Descendents). Food and money, however, fit together much more snugly, which may explain why the latest trend among well-off punks is to invest in a restaurant. Talk about [...]