As someone who usually finds himself spinning the same couple dozen favorites over and over again, joining the Popblerd! team gave me new reason to leave my musical bubble and dive head first into the year’s new music. Needless to say, it was a wonderful experience. I ended up with over thirty albums all told in my final tally of the year’s best, but like any bad parent, I was able to pick favorites. So without further ado, here are […]
Posts tagged "fucked up"
bLISTerd Presents: Koomdogg’s top 11 Albums of 2011
There were a lot of terrific rock albums in 2011, but the one that stood out for me was Fucked Up’s David Comes to Life, and not just because I can’t say the band’s name in front of my mom. The Toronto hardcore act has been around for a decade or so, signed to Matador for the last three. David Comes to Life is a sprawling rock opera about a factory worker in 1970s-era England, but more importantly, it kicks […]
David Comes to Life, Fucked Up
I had given up on hardcore punk, labeled it a tired genre, too constricted. The Founding Fathers of Hardcore Themselves had to change their styles to stay fresh. Ian MacKaye formed Fugazi. Black Flag went Sludge. Husker Du and The Replacements evolved into, well, Husker Du and The Replacements. The only modern hardcore seemed “punks” clinging to some youthful rebellion without any artistic merit. At least that’s what I thought, until this cocksure opinion of mine was forcefully challenged this […]