Weston {Live at Highline Ballroom}
Weston Highline Ballroom July 6, 2011 Weston was one of those bands that should have been huge. They had the sound of Blink 182, the lyrics of Green Day, and the look of Sugar Ray. Sadly, the band fell apart after taking a more mature direction, and a whole generation of punk rockers missed out [...]
Pennywise at The Starland Ballroom
Pennywise is one of those bands that will never change. They are like the Iron Maiden of the punk rock industry: You know what you’re going to get–be it at their live show or on wax–these guys basically defined the South California hardcore sound and they aren’t about to add keyboards to their line-up or [...]
Zoli Teglas: A Pennywise Interview
When word dropped a few months back that Ignite front man Zoli Teglas would be picking the vocal reigns for Pennywise I got a excited. I was weened on both Pennywise and Ignite during my formative years (1994-98) and to call them two of my favorite bands is a bit of an understatement. While it [...]
Bad Religion: Video Portrait
Last month, I got to do yet another interview with Jay Bentley, legendary bassist of punk’s elder statesmen Bad Religion. Sure, this is the third time I’ve posted Jay in the digital and physical pages of Life In A Bungalo, but would you turn down an interview with one of the most charismatic punks rockers [...]
Green Day at Madison Square Garden
Green Day/Kaiser Chiefs Madison Square Garden July 27, 2009 Click to view more photos from show Thousands of fans packed NYC’s biggest venue for two evenings of stellar punk rock courtesy of a band heralded as this generation’s U2, and judging by the audience reaction at MSG, the band is more than worthy of the [...]
The Damned: Live at the Fillmore
The Damned, The BelRays, Electric Frankenstein Fillmore at Irving Plaza May 14, 2009 It’s sad to say, but the number of living legends from the early part of punk history is dwindling rather quickly. With the death of three quarters of The Ramones, Joe Strummer, Arthur “Killer” Kane, and (most recently) Lux Interior, the need [...]
Taste of Chaos Tour at Nokia Theater • 3/4/2009
Taste of Chaos featuring Thursday, Bring Me the Horizon, Four Years Strong, Pierce the Veil Nokia Theater March 4, 2009 Check out the full photolog from the show on Flickr I’m not the biggest fan of package tours under banner names. Sure, I’ve been to everything from Ozzfest to Sno-core, but I always find myself [...]
Street Dogs at Asbury Lanes • 3/14/2009
Street Dogs and Swingin’ Utters Asbury Lanes, New Jersey March 14, 2008 Click here to see more photos from the show When the Dropkick Murphy’s first record “Do or Die” dropped in the mid-‘90s, it was met with a collective “ooh and ah” from punk fans bored of the overproduced Hot Topic crap being bandied [...]
H2O "Nothing to Prove"
H2O “Nothing To Prove” Bridge 9 Records H2O have returned after a very long hiatus and their fans couldn’t be luckier. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes, “Nothing to Prove” is a potent melding of power punk and mid-90s hardcore, lacking any macho posturing and soaked with infectiously catchy tunes. H2O have never been [...]
GLK Creative in Savage Tattoo
As if the spread in last month’s Inked Magazine wasn’t cool enough, Savage Tattoo is running a bunch of my Dropkick Murphy’s photos to compliment a feature story by Scott McCool. Check out the April 2008 edition on sale now.
Bouncing Souls at Webster Hall
Bouncing Souls/Lifetime Webster Hall October 16, 2007 Damn, I knew the Bouncing Souls had gotten big over the years, but I don’t think I was ever expecting to see a packed ballroom singing along to every word of every song–even their cheesier work. Lifetime took the stage after a handful of opening acts. The Jersey [...]