Subtle Bluntness

“Hey Ron, are you ever going to post something for Feel Good Friday that isn’t ska?” No, and fuck you for asking, dicktard.  Ska is the best music for feeling good that has ever been invented.  It’s the musical equivalent of Prozac. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of Pandora.  The other day I [...]

I’ve apparently been on a 50′s-style punk rock kick lately, considering I’ve been beating the hell out of the hyperactive doo-wop kind of vibe a lot of the horrorpunk bands give off.  It’s only natural I’d get around to Sarah‘s band of the month, Zombina and the Skeletones.  Big fan here, of course; this might [...]

The rockin’est, rock-steady beats!

try and tell us our future’s at stake we’re gonna slam dance on your grave cause we don’t give a shit about tomorrow you say we’re a bunch of lazy bums we just wanna act stupid and have some fun cause we don’t give a shit about tomorrow hey suburbia [x3] we’re in love with [...]

I only have two pieces of religious music in my record collection, and both pieces are in the same CD sleeve.  They’re even the same genre, but they could not be farther apart religiously.  One’s a Christian ska band, and the other is the only Satanic ska band in music history (unless there’s something about [...]

I’m digging The Creepshow quite a bit.  Something about their combination of rockabilly, doo-wop backing vocals, horror movie imagery, and general awesomeness is hitting all my spots.  It’s Halloween 24/7/365 here at SB for you new kids on the block. I’ve been on a serious horror kick lately anyway.  I’ve reread The Rising and City [...]

This is the year of manly livin’ This is way to shake it to the modern beat This is a statement meant for givin’ This is the real meat

RIP, David Carradine.  From Caine to Bill to Frankenstein (and even as Coley in Macon County Jail), you were awesome. “It’s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It’s a marathon. You can’t quit; even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn’t. Look, I had absolute faith [...]

I have nothing punchy or useful to add here.  I’ve only seen NOFX once at the Warped Tour in Atlanta (where I also saw Flogging Molly, Five Iron Frenzy, Bad Religion, AFI before they got famous, Anti-Flag after they started to suck, Reel Big Fish, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones before they broke up, Strung Out, [...]

These guys are one of the best bands I’ve seen live.  I’ve never seen an official full-fledged show, but I’ve seen two or three festival appearances by them, and they never fail to be awesome.  Add them to the list of bands (it’s long) that need to stop in Louisville once in a blue moon.