The Crew goes to a concert: The Getup Kids
Nov01

The Crew goes to a concert: The Getup Kids

One of my favorite bands of the second wave era of emo music is The Get Up Kids. They were a consistent early opening act for Green Day, Dashboard Confessional, and Weezer, and inspired some of the most popular bands to come later in the genre like Blink 182, New Found Glory, and Fall Out Boy. I know what you may be thinking, “but Peter, didn’t Blinks first album come out before The Get Up Kids first album? To you I say,...

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A Star Is Born
Mar27

A Star Is Born

I resisted this film for a bit. I always knew I would see it, but it wasn’t jumping out of the screen during movie trailers like other movies have in the past, I knew it was something I’d want to catch up with before the Oscars. Lady Gaga named herself after my favorite band ever, Bradley Cooper hasn’t made a bad movie in about ten years, and between me and you… I really like musicals. Right before the Oscars,...

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The Longshot
Jun07

The Longshot

I went down to Rhode Island with a friend last week to check out Billie Joe Armstrong‘s new side project, The Longshot. I’ve always been the casual Green Day fan that you likely figured I am, with an occasional jump down the pop punk rabbit hole of their catalog when they come out with a new album. I expected this to remind me of past side steps like Box Car Racer or +44 from the Blink-182 guys a few years back. This was...

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The Spotlight: My Summers with The Boss
Apr18

The Spotlight: My Summers with The Boss

Now those memories come back to haunt me  they haunt me like a curse  Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true  Or is it something worse  that sends me down to the river  though I know the river is dry     That sends me down to the river tonight   – Bruce Springsteen, “The River” My first memory of hearing Bruce Springsteen’s music occurred on a late summer evening; darkness reigned outside the window in...

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