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1998’s top 15 punk albums simultaneously changed and preserved the form
Top 15 punk albums of 1998? You’d be forgiven for thinking that there weren’t any in the year the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal dominated the news. A quick perusal of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles of the year sees domination by several R&B (Destiny’s Child, Janet Jackson, Usher, Mariah Carey) or hip-hop (Puff Daddy, Master P, […]
These 15 albums from 1997 irrefutably proved that punk was far from dead
1997: All media is declaring the alternative–rock explosion—for which Nirvana lit the fuse—over. This means the commercial pop-punk wave Green Day touched off was over in their eyes, too. That selfsame media could not have been more wrong. Green Day had just issued their fifth album, Nimrod. The Offspring, the band who made the catchphrase […]
Track By Track: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Magic Of Youth"
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones frontman Dicky Barrett takes us track by track through the legendary ska group's new album, The Magic Of Youth. You can listen to the album here. “The Daylights” On the one hand it's simply about being afraid of the unknown. Beyond that it suggests that some eye-opening event brought me to […]
In The Studio: Mighty Mighty Bosstones
In between jaunts to Europe and shows at Boston’s legendary Fenway freakin’ Park, THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES have had a busy summer. Still, very quietly, the ska-punk luminaries have also found time to record a new album. Frontman DICKY BARRETT, who continues to be the announcer for Jimmy Kimmel Live! as well as the gravel-voiced […]
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