Tag Archives: Punk-Pop

Separately minded and sticking with the old-school D.We.Con. punk mentality, Western world Coastline punk-pop trio Jawbreaker’s street-smart — however poetic — lyrics, spirited musicality, and marathon concert events place them a trim above contemporaries like Green Time and blink-182. After some EPs and singles, guitarist/vocalist Blake Schwarzenbach, bassist Chris Bauermeister, …

As the frontman from the pop-punk outfit Great Charlotte, singer Joel Madden steadily rose from senior high school obscurity (documented in the band’s first radio hit, “Small Points”) to superstar position, a feat that owed as very much to the recognition of his love life as his group’s string of …

Using perky rock and roll riffs like the likes of Eve 6 and Matchbox Twenty, Best Fakebook has handled upon the extremely popular three chords. Hailing from Manhattan, Kansas, Best Fakebook is usually another alternate pop/rock band combining old school rock and roll music when confronted with their successors such …

Down to Globe Strategy included vocalist/guitarist Jonathan Lullo, guitarist Ryan McClurg, bassist John McCampbell, and drummer Peter Metzler. After several false starts within their native NY, the band actually started to move around 2000, if they shifted to California and their audio solidified around a powerful emo/indie rock design influenced …

Pop-punk act Lustra shaped in Boston in 1996 beneath the name Seventeen. The original lineup of Chris Baird on drums and vocals, Nick Cloutman on bass and vocals, Jon Baird on tempo electric guitar, and Jason Adams on lead electric guitar documented their debut record, Breakfast time at Tammy’s, in …

The long-running Denver-based indie pop band Dressy Bessy were led by singer/guitarist Tammy Ealom, who began her musical career as an associate from the little-known 40th Day; with time she remaining the group to spotlight writing her personal material, eventually becoming a member of the initial incarnation from the Minders. …

NJ ska-punk combo Capture 22 were shaped in the fall months of 1996 by singer/guitarist Tomas Kalnoky, trumpeter Kevin Gunther, and drummer Chris Greer. Recruiting bassist Pat Calpin, trombonist Jamie Egan, and saxophonist Ryan Eldred, the group spent another 2 yrs touring relentlessly, offering out all 2,000 copies of its …

To paraphrase the outdated jelly manufacturer’s slogan, using a name just like the Grabass Charlestons, it must be great…or, at the minimum, entertainingly silly. This goofy pop-punk trio from Gainesville, FL, is certainly just as cheerfully vulgar and unapologetically giggly as their name, supported with a good line in the …

San Diego’s Fluf play good-hearted punk-pop in the vein of Sugars and Dinosaur Jr. Guitarist/vocalist O. and bassist Josh Higgins experienced performed in Olivelawn, but created fluf in 1992 with a fresh drummer, Kilometers Gillett. The trio documented a slew of seven-inch singles (gathered on 1995’s The Vintage Years), but …

WE HAVE a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna UTILIZE IT is the name from the all-female indie pop quartet generally known as Fuzzbox. Crossing loud, enthusiastically amateurish punk ? la the Slits using the shiny pop harmonies of fresh wavers just like the Bangles as well as the Go-Go’s, Fuzzbox was …