More punk rock than you can (proverbially) shake a stick at.
Dangers is one of the best hardcore bands around, period. Touring in support of their new album The Bend In The Break, on Wednesday I had the chance to see them again over at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church basement. In the past, I’ve only seen these Los Angeles punks play Philly’s now defunct Golden Tea […]
It’s that time of year again where we are nearing the annual shopping deadline… err I mean special holiday season for you to get together with your family and loved ones around the dinner table, enjoy each other’s company, and fight about Donald Trump until you storm off and swear you aren’t ever talking politics […]
Ever since they started the tradition, I’ve attended The Bouncing Souls Home For The Holidays, their annual Christmas shows in Asbury Park NJ for almost a decade now. I grew up in NJ my entire life, and seeing the band in Asbury was always pretty special to me since it was the first place I […]
Every punk fan has their gateway band that really introduced them and made them fall in love with the genre. Unless you came out of the womb with a mohawk yelling oi with a Crass patch pinned to your diaper, odds are your first exposure was a pop-punk or skate punk band. For me, that […]
Being a hardcore fan growing up in NJ, Vision has been one of my staples for years now. While they never broke up or anything, shows from them these days are very occasional, and I missed them the last time they were in town over the summer. When I saw that they were playing at […]
My ancestral homeland New Jersey, one of the few places in the US where ska is still big. As has become an occasional tradition at this point (went back in 2008 and 2013), I headed out to a packed Starland Ballroom to see some of my favorite ska-punk bands around play “Skanksgiving”… because is it […]