"Atlanta snow storm." - was that when the city made national news last year because it shut down because of two inches of snow?

I saw them play, and I thought they were pretty good. But it was a rather short set, even for a punk band.

I like this column and I was wondering if you were going to continue it into the 2000s. It would be interesting to read about how some of the modern punk/hardcore/emo bands are influenced and indebted to the 90s bands.

It doesn't read as if he reviewed a horrible album, but a B+ album. I'd give this album a B. I'd give your criticism of the criticism a C+.

Yeah, flyover country, i.e., most of America, i.e., places that don't have hissy fits over Google busses.

I latched on to their moodier songs from Hello Sadness and Romance is Boring (like The Sea is a Good Place…, Life is a Long Time), not so coincidentally when I broke up with a girlfriend. But there's still plenty of upbeat songs on the last two albums like Listed Buildings, By Your Hand, Songs About Your Girlfriend,…

I really like this new release ("Steps" is my favorite), and the new Balance and Composure last week.  They're touring together now, but unfortunately not in Ohio,

Yeah, Public Enemy and Suicidal Tendencies win the awards for old guys who can still rock.  I had never seen PE before, and I'm sometimes skeptical of large hip-hop shows, because there's sometimes a lot of hyping instead actually rapping the lyrics.  Chuck D and Flava Flav can still spit, and definitely knew how to…

Yeah, they were fantastic.  I wish I had seen the Pixies, but I'm a bigger Replacements fan, so I was worried I wouldn't even be able to see the Replacements by the time the Pixies' set was over.  I stood near the Riot stage for about an hour and a half after AFI finished, badly needing to piss.  It was worth it.  And…

There's just something so infectious about the big melodic chorus in "Disconnected," that it's understandable they re-released that song multiple times.

Meant to write "young guys."  Anyways, yeah, it reminds me of that Simpsons episode when Bart and Lisa are hockey rivals. "I'm going to be kicking air like this.  And if any part of you should fill that air, it's your own fault!"

"Jockpunk."  http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Yeah, I always just labeled them "post-hardcore," for lack of a better term. Maybe proto-screamo for the screamo bands that broke big in the early
2000s?   To me, I always
associated "screamo" with bands that alternated melodic vocals with
screaming, usually with two vocalists. Bixler-Zavala, of course, would
sing,…

It took me a while to get into screamo/hardcore/post-hardcore/whatever genres of punk with screaming/shouting vocals - it's a barrier, definitely.  But after a while, I found I got used to the abrasiveness, and now I enjoy it.  I enjoy indie rock, but sometimes the stereotypical, bored-sounding vocals of the lead…

Think of it as a fun pop punk song (which is what it is), and not as an early precursor to serious grunge introspection, and it becomes the best song in Nirvana's catalog.  I thought I was an outlier for loving this song more than any other one they made, but, as perhaps Heller confirms, people who are more into punk,…

I will not apologize for loving Less Than Jake.

My theory is that the local bands on the bill were your high school colleagues who thought they could form a band because they were in high school symphony/marching band (as in, one guy happened to play trumpet, his other friend played saxophone, and they both liked Reel Big Fish). 

This was the first Dahl book I read, and it creeped me out too.  The beginning, in which the grandmother explains how some children she knew were transformed by witches, had me enthralled and terrified.  I was worried I would be turned into stone, or transported into a painting my parents had in the living room.

I disagreed with Thom Yorke, but I think he's operating under the incorrect premise that new artists should have ever expected Spotify or Pandora to function as a way to make money.  It was old news - didn't it break out years ago that Lady Gaga made less than 200 bucks for a million streamed plays of Poker Face?

Thank you for the heads up on Turning Point.  I never heard of them before, they remind me of early Sick of it All.