Tag archive for ‘pop punk’

• [REVIEW] IAMDYNAMITE @ The Regency Ballroom 9/16

  9/27/11 • (0)

  

  What I like about IAMDYNAMITE, despite the name and band they opened for (Blue October), is that they are really just good rock music. It is refreshing in a scene full of synthed-out cookie cutter indie rock to hear a band that plays so loud they shake the floor, that gets an audience moving, and genuinely enjoys playing [...]

• Free Tickets: See Kate Nash at The Warfield (Oct 30th)

  10/26/10 • (9)

  

  Kate Nash, the bright and opinionated British pop singer, is performing at The Warfield on October 30th. SFCritic had the pleasure to speak with her earlier this month, which you can read about here. In the spirit of Halloween, giving treats to our followers, we are giving away a pair of tickets to her show. All you have [...]

• Kate Nash Interview: A Woman’s Way

  10/26/10 • (2)

  

  Like, don’t judge me if my writing is like, not your fancy because I’m just being me. Granted, British pop singer Kate Nash doesn’t use “like” that egregiously, but for all the banter about her diction, Nash is highly intelligent, an active feminist, maturing quickly into a well respected musician, while using the word “like” a lot less. [...]

• The Dismemberment Plan is Getting Back Together (at least briefly)

  9/14/10 • (1)

  

  The coolest band I liked before I got to college, DC’s The Dismemberment Plan is reuniting after a 7 year hiatus. Below is part of the statement they issued via their website: It’s been awhile, no? We’ve been working on something for about two years now, and I’m not sure how we kept this under our hats for [...]

• Tokyo Police Club, Arkells and Freelance Whales @ Rickshaw

  8/17/10 • (1)

  

  Had Tokyo Police Club been alone it would have been enough. Had the openers been left to fend for themselves I think they could have a retained 50% of the audience, a good number for a trio of relatively unknown bands. The biggest name out of the openers- Freelance Whales- played well (especially on “Ghosting”). The crowd bopped [...]

• Review of Tokyo Police Club Pre-Outside Lands 2010

  8/17/10 • (1)

  

  (Photo of Tokyo Police Club) Ahhhh, the pre-Outside-Lands-festival-show. Weirdest fucking crowd ever: East-Bayers taking “facebook profile shots” at the bar; frat guys trying to get into fights solely for the sake of I have no idea why; a 40-year-old “cougar” waxing philosophical on the intricacies of liking the same music as her 15-year-old daughter; juveniles getting hammered before [...]

• Interview with Philadelphia Grand Jury

  7/13/10 • (0)

  

  By Sara Morgan “This one’s about a girl I was in love, her boyfriend wanted to kill me…” Berkfinger says of the track ‘When you’re boyfriend comes back to town’. Then adds with a smile “in fact pretty much all the songs are about one girl or another I’ve been in love with.” Berkfinger kinda sounds like he’s [...]