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Flashback!: ’90s Power Pop
Artists mentioned:Power Pop: Not just an under-appreciated music genre, but the style that made up much of our college radio playlists. In the 1970s it was Big Star who pioneered the sound by combining the melody and harmony of the Beatles with the immediacy of The Who. Cheap Trick was perhaps...(read full post)
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Punk in the Papers
Artists mentioned:Germs get a new lead singer: “Nearly 30 years after the original Germs lead singer died of a drug overdose at the age of 21, the Los Angeles snot-punks have a new lead-singer: actor Shane West. That’s right, the former E.R. star is the new Darby Crash—he of the infamous...(read full post)
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Bands Named After Actresses
Artists mentioned:Eve’s Plum Named for the actress that played the middle Brady sister, the New York band made two records for Sony in the mid-90s before calling it quits after failing to make a dent in the charts. The band’s singer, Colleen Fitzpatrick, took a stab at a solo career under...(read full post)
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A (Not So) Complete History of Naked ‘Real World’ Cast Members
Artists mentioned:It’s hard to believe “The Real World” has been running on MTV for twenty seasons now. By our calculations, that’s 153 cast members, 68 drunken blackouts, 39 hot tub makeouts and at least two intra-”Real World” marriages. The show may have started out as a soap opera populated by disparate...(read full post)
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Jello Turns Five-O (Plus Other Stuff You Don’t Care About)
Artists mentioned:1Alternative Tentacles will be releasing “924 Gilman St.,” a documentary about the Berkeley, California non-profit punk venue of the same name that birthed Green Day, AFI, and Operation Ivy. The former two bands aren’t currently allowed to play there however since the venue disallows major label bands. From the movie’s...(read full post)
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A (Not So) Complete History of Elvis’ First Album Cover Tributes
Artists mentioned:Elvis Presley’s first LP spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard charts. Not too shabby considering his label cobbled together the album’s 12 tracks from various sources in order to get it into stores quickly. But perhaps more iconic than the album’s tracks themselves (which include “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Tutti...(read full post)
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Welcome to the ‘Machine’
Artists mentioned:“I’m not the same, the years have passed,” Millencolin’s singer and bassist Nikola Sarcevic proclaims on “Brand New Game,” one of the better tracks on the band’s seventh LP “Machine 15” “It kind of scares me how it went so fast.” And speed by the years did. Led by this...(read full post)
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Fuck You Baltimore! (And 19 Other Sordids)
Artists mentioned:1 Fascinating: Now and then photos of people who have had the same car for a long time. 2 IGN’s 10 Essential Mid-to-Late Nineties Modern Punk Albums: “We’ve specifically left out bands like Screeching Weasel and The Queers, as we wouldn’t classify them so much as pop-punk outfits.” Er, what?…...(read full post)
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Know Your Judge Show Bailiffs
Artists mentioned:What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are actual bailiffs with litigants to protect in a civil court. All bailiffs have agreed to dismiss their real badges and have their characteristics discussed here, in our forum: YuppiePunk dot org… What you are witnessing is real....(read full post)
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Alkaline Trio on ‘The Hills’
Artists mentioned:What the hell is going on around here? First, NOFX go and get a reality show, and then our head just about explodes when Audrina starts talking about the Alkaline Trio on the latest episode of “The Hills.” What, like our Alkaline Trio? Oh right, she works at Epic Records...(read full post)
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10 Quotes from SPIN’s Story on the Replacements
Artists mentioned:Bob Mehr has a nice piece in the May 2008 issue of SPIN on one of YuppiePunk World HQ’s all-time favorite bands, The Replacements. To celebrate Rhino’s reissuing of the band’s first four Twin/Tone LP’s (see the sidebar below), the author sat down with Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson and Chris...(read full post)
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Attack of the Punk Rock Ukuleles
Artists mentioned:The ukulele is a four-stringed Hawaiian relative of the guitar. And though its link to punk rock may be limited to the HOFX 12″ and an obscure New York band called Uke til you puke, its sound is tailor-made for the four-chord simplicity of punk. Witness our new obsession: punk...(read full post)
