Posts tagged the dangerous summer

Before the internet was a mainstay in my life, I relied on friends and CD (you know the DVDs that only play music?) samplers that came with magazines for new music discovery. Some of those little CDs led me to get into Paramore, Hellogoodbye and Self Against City (love you, wherever you are). But today those CDs are as common as an original show idea from Seth MacFarlane. So we sit and wait for a special occasion to bring us a new compilation, and wouldn’t you know it, here’s one for you that is for a great cause. The Catalyst Publicity Group & Keep A Breast have put together more than enough songs to pick and choose from on Yuletides & Stage Dives, including some familiar faces like Let It Happen, Pentimento, Life After Liftoff and Call Me Anything.

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It’s a typical Saturday night as these words spill from my sleepy head. While Tweets of drunken nights flood my timeline, I’m thinking about eating my last Hot Pocket after midnight and regretting it in the morning. After a long evening of reading Anderson Cooper’s memoir and watching a new iCarly, Maker’s new self-titled EP kept me busy until I swooned over Bill Hader on SNL. Maker is an alternative rock album with an indie twist in its handful of songs that confused me at first, then made me almost cry and ended on some high notes.

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Green Day is on the radio, yes…the radio is on and it hasn’t changed the bands its played in about two decades, because before this it was Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam. All these iconic bands bound to forever be footnotes in “Rock & Roll 101” college courses for years to come, but at the end of the day…I can’t be forced to stay confined in a box that only lets the old school in. Those bands are all great, but new bands are like new lands to be discovered. So with that I bring you The American Scene, a band from the northern section of California who will be sharing the road in mid-August with Daybreaker supporting their new album Safe For Now.

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Every week I go in with a positive attitude like, fuck yeah, I’m gonna own this week. Then more often than not one thing goes wrong and I sit at my desk questioning existence like I’m Aristotle. Then on my trek home this past week, I tossed on The Tower and The Fool’s How Long and I almost cried. It’s easy to connect with music. We do it on a daily basis, but there was something perfect about the tone of the music and the lyrics that reassured me “don’t give up.”

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