It was just a different scene man. That would be like getting upset because Azzerad didn't include anything about the underground hip-hop scene in the 80s or the burgeoning techno scene. Yeah, there's lots of different kinds of underground music culture going on at any one time, but his thesis going into the book was…

I think of "twinklecore" as more of a derisive label for the watering down of the emo sound in the late 90s, not as something cool and hip and new. What started as an off-shoot of mathy hardcore bands like Still Life and Policy of Three, moved on to inspire a brand of mopey indie rock like Sunny Day Real Estate and…

I think of "twinklecore" as more of a derisive label for the watering down of the emo sound in the late 90s, not as something cool and hip and new. What started as an off-shoot of mathy hardcore bands like Still Life and Policy of Three, moved on to inspire a brand of mopey indie rock like Sunny Day Real Estate and…

My theory is he's just a staggeringly bad filmmaker…and kind of dumb.

Um okay… But there are a lot of other singers who kind of have a similar singing style who aren't from California, like Doug Martsch and Ben Gibbard. So…

I'm convinced that the kids in these react videos were either brought back in time from 2050 or their parents refuse to talk to them.

Blondie - "Dreaming"

Lol. First time I heard Alkaline Trio, I thought it WAS Jets to Brazil. I like both bands quite easily. Of course I like JTB a tad more.

I've been out of the loop for too long, but "David Comes to Life" seems to me to be the only vital punk album to come out in a LONG time. They're also another band that owes a lot of what they do to Hot Water Music—with a melodic, experimental indie-rock edge.

I don't think it's as simple as that. He speaks of his mild enjoyment of Green Day's early output in his first few installments of this series and of his overall disinterest in The Offspring, but his observation that those two band, and their success, was the sea-change in a lot of punk rock is absolutely correct.…

This is great stuff man. I'm thinking…book treatment?