The Trailers Are The Best Part: 924 Gilman St. Documentary
Check out the trailer for the upcoming documentary 924 Gilman St. Let’s Talk About Tact And Timing. The film will be released sometime this year via Alternative Tentacles.
Check out the trailer for the upcoming documentary 924 Gilman St. Let’s Talk About Tact And Timing. The film will be released sometime this year via Alternative Tentacles.
Photo Credit: Todd Pollock
“I wanted to make our Everything Sucks,” H2O lead singer Toby Morse said when describing the process of making their latest album, Nothing To Prove (Bridge Nine Records). While nearly ten years passed between those Descendents records, comparing the two makes sense. Seven years have passed since their last record, the much-discussed major label debut, GO. Think about that for a second. By music industry standards, that’s like being gone for a century.
Personally, I graduated high school and college in that time frame. All the bands that were banging out that mall-rocking pop punk back in 2001 have traded in their Dickies for dayglo hoodies and flat-brimmed baseball hats. Hell, the whole music industry is a different machine now. Ultimately though, through it all, H2O are still, as Morse describes, the “same old dudes” and their message will never change. Nothing To Prove is their testimony to that.
It’s been seven years since GO. Obviously, a lot has happened with you personally and the band along the way. That being said, what do you want the overall message of Nothing To Prove to be?
Toby: We’ve changed as people as far as getting older and having more responsibilities [but] we haven’t changed as people who still believe in the music that we were playing seven years ago. All the albums, the message and how we grew up into this music, it’s still instilled in us. We’ve done the indies and we’ve done the majors. We definitely paid our dues. It was a no pressure and fun record to make.
We all have other forms of incomes. Before it was a full time thing and now it’s not. We did the record in two and a half weeks. What do we have to lose at this point? We definitely wanted to make our best album. When the Descendents disappeared for a long time, they came back with Everything Sucks and that record was amazing. I wanted to make our Everything Sucks. A record that when you heard it, you’d be like ‘oh shit, these dudes still got it.’ It’s the most personal record [but] it’s just as raw and in your face as the first couple records. The last record we had a lot of money and a lot of time to make it. I wish we would have done it this way.
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I’ve always heard of Scream Hello, but never really sat down to listen to them. Man, I was missing out. A great mix of melodic pop punk with smart lyrics, I’ve been spinning this little teaser for their upcoming full-length, Everything Is Always Still Happening constantly. If you don’t find yourself tapping your feet or even dancing to “Vinegar & Baking Soda,” you’re a goddamn Communist sympathizer who deserves life in jail.
Photos by Bill Shouldis
Former Cave In member Stephen Brodsky stopped by Generation Records this past Sunday with his acoustic guitar for an in-store performance. The set was a mix of songs from his latest solo album, Black Ribbon Award, the Pet Genius full-length and even two Jupiter-era Cave In songs (”Brain Candle” and “New Moon”). Hell, the dude even threw in a Desmond Dekker song and a righteous cover of Jawbreaker’s “Save Your Generation.” Check out a video after the jump, along with some more pictures.
Islands played their biggest NYC gig yet on Saturday at Webster Hall. The set list consisted mostly of songs off their new record Arms Way (Anti), including stand out tracks like “Creeper,” “J’aime Vous Voir Quitter” and “Pieces of You.” In fact the only song before the encore that came from Return to the Sea was “Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby,” which Diamonds prefaced by saying “this is what we used to sound like.” When the crowd cheered he exclaimed “No, boo! Out with the old in with the new!”
While Return to the Sea was a very logical step from their previous band, The Unicorns, Arms Way is the band’s boldest statement to date. The difference in the sound between the two records is astounding and that was even more apparent at the show. Despite Diamonds’ distaste for the old songs, the encore consisted of two Return to the Sea songs; “Swans” and “Rough Gem.”
Also of note, Man Man’s biggest fan Darren Mabee was in the crowd trying to perform some show stealing antics. Has he moved on to Islands?
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