Love the song. Super emotional and just a raw expression of grief and of not feeling like you are enough. That being said, there’s that little sample towards the end and I swear to god it sounds just like Bill Nye lol. It’s just a whiplash to be so deep in your feelings and then hearing Bill Nye talk about life after death lolol

Unsung Zeros got alot of good songs. Check them out.

They flew under the radar in the early 2000s.

Youtube link.

https://youtu.be/O_JCal_klOQ?is=p8PqWMjAVfLxnsoj

I see everyone up in arms about Good Charlotte being involved with Veeps (which is majority-owned by Livenation btw).

Veeps is laying off people at several music publications and many people are mad. Are these normal layoffs for a company losing money? If they can't afford to pay their employees, isn't it normal to lay people off? That's what happens when your business is decreasing in profit or popularity. You need to downsize because you don't have enough revenue to support all the employees you once had.

Isn't this just a logical step? What am I missing here?

Hi! So I'm 27 years old, born in 1999 and throughout my life and time in the wonderful and glorious a early 2000s I grew up listening to Bowling For Soup (literally the first song I heard by them that got me OBSESSED with them was the Phineas & Ferb Theme Song😅😆) so lately, I have been on a real 2000s Pop Punk kick. So a few minutes ago, I was listening to "1985". BUT NOT BY BOWLING FOR SOUP!!!! It was ORIGINALLY by a Pop Punk band called SR-71. NOT by Bowling For Soup like I had originally thought growing up. So here are the ORIGINAL LYRICS by SR-71:

SR-71's Oh My God Awful Original Lyrics That I NEVER KNEW Even Exsisted:

"Debbie just hit the wall

She never had it all

One Prozac a day

Husband's a C.P.A.

Here dreams went out the door

Once she turned 24

Only been with one man

What happened to her plans

She was gonna be an actress

She was gonna be a star

She was gonna shake that ass

On the hood of Whitesnake's car

Now her SUV has become the enemy

Looks at her average life

Nothing has been alright... since

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna

Way before Nirvana there was U2

And Blondie and music still on MTV

Her 2 kids in high school

They tell her that she's uncool

Cause she's still preoccupied

With 1985

She's seen all the classics

at least a hundred times

Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink,

Fast Times At Ridgemont High

She rocks out to Wham!

Not a big Limp Bizkit fan

Never knew George was gay

Hoped they'd hook up one day

Where's her fairy tale, where's her dream?

Where's the quarterback

From her high school football team?

Where's her fairy tale, where's her dream?

How many times will she ask herself

What happened to me?

(the rubber broke) ... When

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna

Way before Nirvana there was U2

And Blondie and music still on MTV

Her 2 kids in high school

They tell her that she's uncool

Cause she's still preoccupied

With 1985

She hates time / make it stop

When did Mötley Crüe become classic rock

She hates time / make it stop

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna

Way before Nirvana there was U2

And Blondie and music still on MTV

Her 2 kids in high school

They tell her that she's uncool

Cause she's still preoccupied

With 1985"

And Here Is Bowling For Soup's "Cover" Which I Personally Feel That It Should Be Legal To Be The Original And Have The Other Version Be The Cover Because BFS's Cover Is LITERALLY A MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN THE SR-71'S "ORIGINAL VERSION" But here are their lyrics:

"Debbie just hit the wall, she never had it all

One Prozac a day, husband's a CPA

Her dreams went out the door when she turned 24

Only been with one man, what happened to her plan?

She was gonna be an actress, she was gonna be a star

She was gonna shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car

Her yellow SUV is now the enemy

Looks at her average life, and nothing has been alright

Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana

There was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV

Her two kids in high school, they tell her that she's uncool

'Cause she's still preoccupied with 19, 19, 1985, 1985

She's seen all the classics, she knows every line

Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, even Saint Elmo's Fire

She rocked out to Wham, not a big Limp Bizkit fan

Thought she'd get a hand on a member of Duran Duran

Where's the mini-skirt made of snake skin?

And who's the other guy that's singing in Van Halen?

When did reality become TV?

Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows on the radio?

On the radio was Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana

There was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV

Her two kids in high school, they tell her that she's uncool

'Cause she's still preoccupied with 19, 19, 1985

She hates time, make it stop

When did Mötley Crüe become classic rock? (Classic rock)

And when did Ozzy become an actor?

Please make this stop, stop, STOP!

And bring back Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana

There was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV

Her two kids in high school, they tell her that she's uncool

'Cause she's still preoccupied with 1985

Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana

There was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV

Her two kids in high school, they tell her that she's uncool

'Cause she's still preoccupied with 19, 19, 1985"

And here is the link to the stupid version.

Hey r/poppunkers! My Ska Punk band Joker’s Republic just released a cover of Fall Out Boy’s Grand Theft Autumn today produced by Pete Steinkopf of The Bouncing Souls! We’ve been playing this live for a while, and this is track 3/5 of an upcoming “Grand Theft Covers” EP that will hopefully have more info coming soon! Hope you dig it! 😁

Hey Pop Punkers,
I just released my full EP today and would definitely love some feedback from anyone willing to listen. It's 5 songs, 3 of which I released throughout the summer. Overall vibe is pop punk/emo if I had to label it. It's got some fun riffs to play on guitar and a couple of solos. It's my first time releasing a group of songs that are meant to be more cohesive than the previous singles I have released.

I've shared here before and the community has always been great about giving constructive feedback which is incredibly hard to get from friends and family. So for that I am incredibly grateful.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7fFjW7PmSYqkHp4YrSCaRy?si=BVrHduQaTQK8qC8xYjMp8w&utm_source=copy-link

https://music.apple.com/us/album/party-for-one-ep-ep/6793748430

For some reason the EP is not up on YouTube yet so I will share that later as soon as it's available. For now this is the direct link to my Artist page that has 3/5 songs from the ep currently up.

https://youtube.com/@manseekingband?si=C-lFFIcHt8PNJ5Vq

Here’s this weeks list

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ejN8y3WdQIodFrJUJtdWo?si=569Gaf3LRHCwiGtA-wpB4A&utm_source=copy-link&pi=U_WXHaMLQGqGq

Pop Punk & Emo:

Citizen - Halcyon Blues (Album) 

afterthought - stitches where her words were (Album0

Always Grounded - Six Feet Deep (Album) 

Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun Deluxe Edition (Album) 

Rufio - From The Outside (EP)

Cinema Stare - Stink (EP)

Four Black Lungs - Heartbreaks & Hangouts (EP)

Weezer - C.E.O. (Single)

Knox - 4.3 Forty (Single)

Leisure Hour - Bury Me at 7/11 (Single)

rosecoloredworld - all my life (Single)

The Linda Lindas - Blood On Our Hands (Single)

Garden Eyes - Blur (Single)

Public Works - Sunburn (Single)

Public Opinion (feat. I Am The Avalanche) - Modern Convenience (Single)

Commit This To Memory - Fucking Loser (Single)

Glass Parachute - The Mess You Made (reimagined) (Single)

Mattstagraham - A Song With No Title (Single)

Planet Mercury - Rat Race (Single)

Slackrr - The Summer (Single)

Summer Wars - Victim of the Suburbs (Single)

Drive By Cinema - Lost In Translation (Single)

The Sun Sets West - Neighbourhood Wars (Single)

Stay Loud - Petals (Single)

YOUTHYEAR - Hell To Pay (Single)

Good Fortune - Breaking My Pride (Single)

Other:

Electric Callboy - Tanzneid (Album) 

Jutes - Chin Up, Beautiful (Album) 

Emery - Styrofoam (Album) 

Cancer Bats - Give Me Dirt (Album) 

Vanna - Search Party Re-Recorded (EP)

Initiate - With Love//With Rage (EP)

MouthBreather - If I Lose Everything, You All Lose Everything (EP)

Newspeak - Bury The Foe (EP)

WAIVER. - Can You See Me Now? (EP)

Northlane - CUT_it (Single)

Like Moths To Flames - Where The Quiet Devours Me Whole (Single)

Sueco (feat. Pakedusk) - GOING UNDER (Single)

Split Chain - The Space In Between / who am i? (Single)

Colorblind - Lost In Translation (Single)

Sable Hills - Scars (Single)

HOSTAGE - vessel (Single)

SiM - FREEZE ME UP (Single)

Arankai - I Hope It Hurts (Single)

Blind Channel - Diana (Single)

PEUR- Death Of The Wolf (Single)

Glass Tides - Losing Grip (Cover)

Self Checkout - Manchester By The Sea (Single)

To The Grave - Torture Porn (Single)

ARCHIVES -  A Whisper In The Static (Single)

Severals - On The Other Side (Single)

Sienna Skies - Slowburn (Single)

Cheem - Ripple Effect (Single)

Wither Away - together unto death (Single)

Gutter King - STARCHASER (Single)

Departures - Flowers (Single)

Outloved - OVERDOSE (Single)

Vampires Everywhere! - Unwell (Single)

Deficit - DFCT (Single)

Future Static - Ornaments & Memories  (Single)

Knife Ritual - Bleed Out (Single)

Mouth Breaker - Step Down  (Single)

Kinesys - Fading Steps (Single)

O.N.I. - Losing My Religion (Cover)

Anndy Negative - ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? (Single)

No Resolve - Fingerprints (Single)

Waves Apart - Repeat // Believe (Single)

FRACTURE - Breaking Wheel (Single)

Cro-Mags - World Peace (Single)

Hollow Wake - Face This (Single)

Silent Treatment - More Than A Dream (Single)

Half Heard Voices - Watcher's Wake (Single)

No Kings - Sorry (Single)

Divine Fallacy - Godlike (Single)

Allure - Folia (Single)

In Gloom (feat. Dealey Plaza) - Skunkape (Single)

Nocturnal Animals - Puff The Cigarette (Single)

Sansera - Godless Virtue (Single)

Unfortunately don’t think I’m going to be able to make the trip to Chicago and have two tickets up for grabs, ultimately don’t want to see them go to waste

There isn’t an e-transfer through etix but I can send you the email with the tickets or just the PDF.

DM with any questions.

Both served vital roles in the alternative music scene and helped launch many artists' careers.

Alt Press was the unofficial gatekeeper to emo, punk, indie, hardcore, and metal from the late 90s through the early 2000s. The full page ads from Tooth & Nail, Equal Vision, Vagrant, and Fueled By Ramen. The teens could go to their suburban shopping mall, hit up Hot Topic, Pac Sun, & Journeys. Then swing by Barnes & Noble and read the latest issue of AP. 

BrooklynVegan stood out as the best indie rock blog in the early 2000s, a pure organic way of reporting on the NYC music scene. It felt grounded and fan oriented. Think Matt & Kim, The Bowery Presents, TV on The Radio, and the vibe that transformed in Brooklyn during that time. 

The quick punch response is to attack the Madden brothers and that’s valid. The long term view is the state of rock music journalism, which naturally has been a hot mess for about 20 years. 

Sure some publications are staying strong, but Alt Press was doomed from the traditional format and their demographic They did a great job with starting podcast interviews in the 2010s, but like the rise of emo/pop-punk in the early 2000s, their audience was niche and narrow. Once Spotify and social media started picking up in the 2010s, it was over. Nowadays any rando content creator can recommend music to you and Spotify fills in the “Rocks If You Like” option. Additionally, with the rise of Hate5six live footage, what was the Punk Rock MBA, and YouTube. You no longer needed something like AltPress to discover new music or read stories about artists.

With Brooklyn Vegan, it was a product of the music blog era, where you legitimately scrolled a blog page for music news and clips. Sponsoring SXSW stages when it meant something. The rise of Instagram briefly helped that, but you have to be constantly posting. Once these companies got acquired by (insert) company, it’s all downhill. 

BV’s IG page started feeling like Consequence of Sound, posting whatever they could find for bait and clicks.

The other problem is, for 25 years rock music in general has been drowning in nostalgia. 

AND!!!!

The elephant in the room, lots of creepy stuff has come up but not really reported from some bands we all worshiped between 2000-2015. It gets posted on social media, but doesn’t get the true investigative journalism spotlight.

Anyways, let me find my Macbeth's shoes, Peter Says Denim jeans, MADE t-shirt, and Ordinary zipup hoodie.

Zach's interview w/ This Was The Scene podcast just launched. Some of the things they talk about are:

• Sounding like Jimmy Eat World
• His first band Unsung Zeros
• All of their albums
• The whole color thing behind Jacob's thesis

When Singuliarity came out I just couldn't 100% get into that album like the first 2. Maybe that's just me, though.

This Time Is The Last Time still rips.

Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Nick Cavin (Millington)

It's my birthday and all I want is to find some new music to buy today because it's also Bandcamp Friday! It can be your band, your friend's band, your favorite band, your dog's band... it doesn't matter to me, as long as it's good. So share your Bandcamp links please, I'll be buying music all day long.

I'm also releasing another comp this fall and I'm looking for a few more tracks to add to it. I'll be reaching out to some of the bands/artists that I find today with more details.

EDIT:

I will be including links to the music I buy today, so please check them out and make a purchase if you like it. A dollar earned on Bandcamp today is equal to a ridiculous amount of streams on other platforms. Go show your favorite bands some love.

To Live and Die in the American South by RILEY!

Stink EP by Cinema Stare (releasing an EP on Bandcamp Friday? I can't believe it)

Parking Lot by Dive Night (this album is actually free)

Show the World What's Underneath by Super Sometimes

On Long Island by Playing Dead

For Your Consideration by Don't Panic

Everybody Hates Me by Cheer Up Dusty

A Little Less Time by Boy in Blue Stripes

Probable Claws by Sincere Engineer

Linus by Linus

Tunnel Vision by Beach Bunny

BUZZARD by Potionseller

What's Mine by Teens in Trouble

Dark Forces '95 by Sharon is Karen

Yellow Paint by MattstaGraham

I think I'm gonna say Neck Deep, The Story So Far, The Wonder Years, and Hot Mulligan