Dude....tell me you saw Mind Spiders.

Originally Posted by Holly HoX!

Dude....tell me you saw Mind Spiders.

i wish! they were the same night as Thou, Ceremony, Ice Age, Moss Icon and Pygmylush.

I always felt that punk was being yourself without having to apologize for it. Less a sound, more of an attitude I think. Music that's considered punk is just born out of that attitude.

Originally Posted by Oskarr

I always felt that punk was being yourself without having to apologize for it. Less a sound, more of an attitude I think. Music that's considered punk is just born out of that attitude.

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i always included any band/artist that played jerrys pizza to be punk.

Originally Posted by Adam Pfleider

i wish! they were the same night as Thou, Ceremony, Ice Age, Moss Icon and Pygmylush.

Oh man. Definitely one of my favorite bands right now.

Originally Posted by Holly HoX!

Oh man. Definitely one of my favorite bands right now.

you and JADEDPUNKHULK. hahaha. but yeah, a bit bummed.

Punk rock has always been highly influential. There are a lot of bands and artists that, while you don't consider them being strictly punk rock because of the musical genre they play, they cite as personal influences punk rock outfits. Just because "punk" is not just a mere genre, an iTunes classification, but it's a way of living, an attitude toward life, a cultural movement; it trascends the concept itself of categorization. The Clash, the greatest punk rock band that ever trod a stage on this world, according to who's writing this short paragraph, not only defined the "classic" punk rock sound (along with, of course, some other big guns), but paved the way for at least two or three other musical genres. How much music of the subsequent decades you can hear in masterpieces such as Sandinista or London Calling? I think we can expand this discussion to a plenty other punk rock outfits.

Also, I don't know how many of you will perhaps agree with me (but I guess that you'll be several), but for example I consider a singer/songwriter like Frank Turner to be truly "punk". The energy, the passion, the urgency, his heartfelt lyrics, his honest and passionate music: this is "punk" for me, even if there aren't any four chords progression or screamed gang vocals.

I hope I've been clear enough.

Originally Posted by GetUpAndrew

Punk rock has always been highly influential. There are a lot of bands and artists that, while you don't consider them being strictly punk rock because of the musical genre they play, they cite as personal influences punk rock outfits. Just because "punk" is not just a mere genre, an iTunes classification, but it's a way of living, an attitude toward life, a cultural movement; it trascends the concept itself of categorization. The Clash, the greatest punk rock band that ever trod a stage on this world, according to who's writing this short paragraph, not only defined the "classic" punk rock sound (along with, of course, some other big guns), but paved the way for at least two or three other musical genres. How much music of the subsequent decades you can hear in masterpieces such as Sandinista or London Calling? I think we can expand this discussion to a plenty other punk rock outfits.

Also, I don't know how many of you will perhaps agree with me (but I guess that you'll be several), but for example I consider a singer/songwriter like Frank Turner to be truly "punk". The energy, the passion, the urgency, his heartfelt lyrics, his honest and passionate music: this is "punk" for me, even if there aren't any four chords progression or screamed gang vocals.

I hope I've been clear enough.

ummm, if you don't think Frank Turner is punk as fuck...I mean, I can't even...

for me, punk as a genre is usually fast with rough vocals, simple-ish riffs and generally lower sound quality. i typically don't like that so much. punk as an idea, on the other hand, transcends genre lines and means doing what you want for the sake of wanting to do it, particularly when it goes against what is expected of you from others. i love this, a lot. an example i'd give of punk as an idea is patrick stump's solo album. not what was expected of or desired from him at all for most, but he wrote the record exactly how he wanted to. soul punk as fuck.

Punk is an idea to me. The community at an AJJ show, that's punk to me. It's awesome.

Originally Posted by newspaperbcf

10/10 would quote comment again.

Dude, did you see Laura Stevenson?????