propertyofzack:

• LMFAO called it quits.
• Angels & Airwaves began writing a new album.
• Transit announced full album shows.
• Members of The Get Up Kids and fun started a new band.
• Silverstein will be releasing a new album in 2013.
• The Swellers started their own label and will be…

propertyofzack:

• Brand New left their label and management and hope to release music in 2013.
• Bayside are opening for Taking Back Sunday on the Tell All Your Friends Tour.
• blink-182 will be touring Australia with Travis Barker.
• Chiodos have confirmed that they will be releasing a…

propertyofzack:

• blink-182 are having “career changing” conversations.
• Craig Owens confirmed that he had entered rehab within the past several months.
• The Academy Is…’s drummer was assaulted and is requiring plastic surgery.
• Yellowcard, The Wonder Years, and We Are The In Crowd will be touring…

propertyofzack:

• Alexisonfire are going on a farewell tour.
• We The Kings were nearly kidnapped in Malaysia.
• All Time Low re-signed with Hopeless Records and are releasing a new album this fall.
• Paramore began tracking the drumsB for their fourth album.
• Geoff from Thursday is playing several…

propertyofzack:

• Pierce The Veil may have copied their album artwork after disapproval from the original artist.
• Taking Back Sunday are going out on a ten year Tell All Your Friends tour.
• Circa Survive, Touché Amoré, Balance & Composure, and O’Brother announced a fall tour.
• The Wonder Years …

Editorial: Setting Fire To The Hipster Bandwagon

This being my first contribution to the blog, I decided that I should write about something I feel very strongly about. Of course, I feel strongly about quite a few things, but one thing comes to mind on this particular day. One of the biggest problems with music today, more specifically the type of music … Continue reading »

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theworldwontspinforever:

propertyofzack:

The Wonder Years are currently headlining The GK Tour. Check out videos of “Living Room Song,” “And Now I’m Nothing,” “Won’t Be Pathetic Forever, “I Won’t Say The Lord’s Prayer,” and “Keystone State Dude-Core” below by clicking “Read More.”

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Check out my videos! Big thanks to Property of Zach for blogging them all! So sorry for singing over some parts. Can you really blame me? lol

westolethekids:

Ziya’s Top 5 Albums of 2011

1. La Dispute - “Wildlife”

Let me preface this summary by saying most people will not like this album. Most people do not find poetry being passionately recited over chaotic strings and tribal drum patterns attractive. That being said, if you find a band that combines Minor Threat with Built To Spill and Thursday appealing to you, you need to purchase (yes, purchase) “Wildlife”. Singer, Jordan dreyer, has obviously had a hell of a year - his personal life has torn him apart, and the state of American society seems to have broken him down even further. The band pulls eclectic styles, such as jazz and folk, into the music at some points, which works in their respective places; but the most powerful moments on “Wildlife” are when the band hits you with waves of distorted energy. If “King Park” does not drag you to the edge of your seat, I don’t know what can. La Dispute does everything right on this album. I’m not sure how they can top it.

2. Thursday - “No Devolución”

I guess people have started referring to “No Devolución” as Thursday’s swan song, since it was the last release before their indefinite hiatus… and what a way to end such a relentless career. Thursday is best known for their 2001 album, “Full Collapse”, which defined the post-hardcore genre in a big way. In my opinion, however, “No Devolución” tops “Full Collapse” in many respects. Thursday really nailed their sound and energy on this album; Geoff’s vocals are mixed to almost act as an additional instrument, and the atmospheric tones of the band complement this production choice perfectly. The album mixes power with atmosphere in a way I’ve never heard done before, and my mouth was wide open the first time I heard it. Thursday is notorious for their story-based lyricism, which evoke a definitive emotion in any listener, but they have never been combined with this style. Let me just say, this is the style Thursday have been searching for. There is no better way this band could have gone out.

3. The Roots - “Undun”

I’ve always loved The Roots and I feel like they’ve never truly received the respect they deserve. In my opinion, they’ve released their strongest albums in the past two years, the best of which being their most recent, “Undun”. “Undun” is the band’s first attempt at a concept album, and the lyrical content proves why Black Thought is one of the best rappers around. The soul that goes into the music instrumentally, lyrically, and melodically is so raw and honest. It’s a true piece of art and a heart-wrenching product of a broken culture. Each song seamlessly draws me into the scene that is being described, and at certain points, it sends shivers down my spine. 

4. Death Cab For Cutie - “Codes and Keys”

Death Cab fans love to disown this album. They find it too poppy, or too happy… but in all honesty, these generalizations do not do “Codes and Keys” justice. I didn’t really fall into love with this album until I saw DCFC perform on Jimmy Kimmel in late 2011. This performance was post-break-up for Ben Gibbard, and I had a realization about the emotion this album evokes: it transcends. This is a phenomena in some sense, because what could be interpreted as an expression of love in “Underneath The Sycamore” could also be interpreted as somber remembrance of an relationship full of self-deprecating escapism. The whole album is full of transcending emotion, and it is one of Death Cab’s best to date.

5. The Wonder Years - “Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing”

The Wonder Years describe themselves as “realist pop-punk” — Now this description had me snickering to myself. I feel like I’ve been outgrowing this genre lately, as the big 1-8 is around the corner, but TWY’s “Suburbia…” reminded me why I’m still so involved in the (somewhat) underground scene. This is an album that chronicles the story of six guys trying to do what they love in a world that seems to tell them they can’t. In this sense, the album’s numerous amount of references to Allen Ginsberg’s “America” is highly applicable. Ginsberg’s poetry helped him, and his readers, come to terms with living in a world he couldn’t quite grasp without shaking his head. He never felt at home, and TWY reflects similar sentiments. These guys manage to combine catchy with angst while maintaining a sense of genuine emotion. It’s rare, and it deserves your attention.

Extremely Honorable Mentions:

Balance & Composure - “Separation”

Patrick Stump - “Soul Punk”

Radiohead - “The King Of Limbs”

PPRAE mod, T-Dork, just posted up his top 7 AotY! Make sure to contribute YOUR favorites of the year to the survey so we can post ‘em up!

mr-manchester:

After 12 months of thought (or about a week) I’ve narrowed it down to my top 7 albums of this year.  You may ask yourself…”Why 7?”  Well, the answer is that beyond these 7 records, I would have felt like I was just listing a few that I thought I should have liked.  Did I enjoy more than 7 records this year?  Of course.  But only these 7 stood out to me as the best of the year.  So there. 

#7

My faith in pop punk was completely reborn with the emergence of The Wonder Years. I’ve never been a big pop punker, but the realist-punk TWY bring to the table seems to bring the maturity that I felt the genre has always lacked (I personally don’t enjoy fast, humorous songs that exist just for the sake of being fast and trying to be funny). Dear Suburbia… is such a smart record, with references to the town they live in and a lightly binding concept throughout. This is finally the PopPunk record that seems like it was written for a mid twenties kid that hasn’t quite got it all figured out yet.
The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing 

#6

Balance & Composure was a brand new band for me in 2011 also. Separation grew on me the same way The Dangerous Summer did. “Galena” got me hooked and interested in the rest of the album. B&C have this driving, grinding feel that I love so much in so many of their songs. Sometimes the only word I can think to describe parts of their songs is “filthy” (“Fade”, “Quake”, “Patience”). Driving bass kicks with vocal and guitar melodies that flow steadily make this album stand out to me. It seems like those stupid audio visualizers were made to use while listening to this album (you know, where the equalizer makes a line all squiggly and switches between trippy colors…I cant be the only one that has watched that at least once).
Balance and Composure - Separation 

#5

I’ve been a Childish Gambino fanboy for about a year and a half. I knew Donald Glover existed as a hip-hop artist, among his many other ventures, and thought it would be cool of me to like his music. I functioned that way for a while, trying to listen to his mix tapes. Last year’s “EP” made me a true fan (Freaks & Geeks…nuf said) and some remixed singles had me waiting for Camp hardcore. “Bonfire” was released early and the Casey Anthony line made me legit yell and laugh out loud at the same time. The lyrics in Camp are incredible. Coherent as a narrative on first listen, then filled with hilarious and heart wrenching references that take multiple listens to catch. The musicality of this album is amazing as well. Camp isn’t just verses over beats; there are some legit songs and arrangements. The leadoff “Outside” stands out here with its chorale arrangement. With Camp, Childish Gambino went from a novelty act for backpackers and hipsters to a legitimate, intelligent artist.
Childish Gambino - Camp 

#4

The fact that The Dangerous Summer’s War Paint is on this list, let alone as high as it is, is a surprise to even me. After a few listens I liked exactly .5 songs on this album. Not half the songs, not one or two songs, but one half of a song. As I kept listening, the lyrics struck me and I loved the songs more. Like the Transit record, this one is extremely personal to me, even to the point where I don’t like to listen to one of the songs anymore because I’m reminded how terrible I felt at one point. It seems like I discovered a new favorite song on this record every couple of days. The songs vary a great deal in tempo, time signature, and feeling (“In My Room” and “No One’s Gonna Need You More” come to mind). There’s a lot to be said for an album that seems like its brand new every time you listen to it even 4 months after it’s first spin.
The Dangerous Summer - War Paint

#3

Whether it’s in part because of my name or not, I love Manchester Orchestra. I’m sure I was biased even before Simple Math came out. I had the highest of expectations for it, and it definitely lived up to those. This album has a bit of a cleaner sound than METN but still brings more punch than LAVLAC. The video for “Virgin” was shot by a kid in Rochester, NY (where I live) and makes me love it even more. What really set this album apart for me, and signaled more good things to come form the band, were the string arrangements. At times, they overshadow the drums and guitar in the best way possible. They add a melody that adds such a great dimension and brings more feeling to the songs they are in. But all the while, they seem to just exist within and then vanish from your memory of the song as soon as it’s over.
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math

#2

I’m late getting on the Transit wagon but if there was ever an album to win over new fans, it’s Listen & Forgive.  Without being my favorite album from this year, it is my most heavily played.  I don’t believe that this band’s pieces are individually anything spectacular.  They don’t have soaring vocals, shredding guitars, or pounding drums.  What they do have are great songs and a collective sound so solid that I couldn’t help but fall in love.  “Long Lost Friends” and “All Your Heart” are standouts for me.  This is one of two albums this year that felt like it was written about/for me.  We all know that those are the best albums.
Transit - Listen & Forgive  

#1

I bought Moving Mountains’ Forward when it came out on a whim.  I struggled to get into it and to be honest, I still do.  All it took to get me hooked on their 2011 release Waves, was one view of the above video for “Always Only for Me”.  MovMou bring everything to this album.  It’s filled with happiness, sadness, angst, and hope.  Waves seems like an album written by a band that’s matured out of writing 10 minute songs with 8 minutes of instrumentals just to prove that they can.  I love this album because of the vocal melodies that are original to MovMou (“Parts in Different Places”).  The lyrics are cryptic enough to allow the listener to decide what the song means to them.  I loved this album even before some tough times this year and I loved it more during and after them.  It’s a gorgeous album that will be a classic to me forever.  Waves is my Album of the Year for 2011.
Moving Mountains - Waves 

Brand New - “Guernica” 
Deja Entendu 
Triple Crown/Razor & Tie, 2003
Produced by: Steven Haigler 

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Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo’s Most Played songs last week:

1) Brand New – “Guernica”

2) Joyce Manor – “Constant Headache”

2) Brand New – ”The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows”

3) La Dispute – “King Park”

3) The Wonder Years – “New Years With Carl Weathers”

3) Moving Mountains – “Tired Tiger”

3) The Wonder Years – ”Washington Square Park”

3) The Wonder Years –  ”Came Out Swinging”

3) Brand New –  ”Sudden Death in Carolina”

3) Brand New –  ”Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis”

3) Childish Gambino  – “Bonfire”

3) Pianos Become The Teeth – ”I’ll Get By”

3) The Wonder Years – ”My Last Semester”

4) Box Car Racer – “Letters To God”

4) Balance and Composure – “I Tore You Apart In My Head”

4) I Am the Avalanche – “You’ve Got Spiders”

4) The Wonder Years – “Woke Up Older”

4) The Wonder Years – “I Won’t Say The Lord’s Prayer”

4) Man Overboard – “Decemberism”

4) Brand New – “Seventy Times 7”

4) Brand New – ”Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don’t”

4) Manchester Orchestra – ”The Only One”

4) I Am the Avalanche – “Brooklyn Dodgers”

4) The Story So Far – “High Regard”

4) The Story So Far – “Mt. Diablo  

4) Brand New – ”Last Chance to Lose Your Keys”

These statistics are collected via our last.fm group. To have your plays counted, make sure you join!

All 26 of this songs, along with the weekly top songs for the past two months are located in this handy Spotify playlist!  Subscribe to it to rock out on your own time, and also to automatically receive the weekly updates in the future!

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The Wonder Years - “Local Man Ruins Everything” (music video)
Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
Hopeless / No Sleep, 2011 

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BroTT’s Top 25 Songs of Last Week:

1. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – ”In Friends We Trust”
2. The Wonder Years – ”Local Man Ruins Everything”
3. The Wonder Years – ”Came Out Swinging”
4. The Wonder Years – ”Don’t Let Me Cave In”
5. blink-182 – ”All The Small Things”
6. La Dispute – ”King Park”
7. Seahaven – ”Understanding”
8. Seahaven – ”PV”
9. Brand New – ”Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis”
10. The Dangerous Summer – ”Work In Progress”
11. Seahaven – ”Goodnight”
12. Rise Against – ”Make It Stop (September’s Children)”
13. Manchester Orchestra – ”Shake It Out”
14. Paramore – ”Renegade”
15. Moving Mountains – ”The Cascade”
16. Moving Mountains – ”Alleviate”
17. The Story So Far – ”Quicksand”
18. The Dangerous Summer – ”Good Things”
19. Man Overboard – ”Love Your Friends, Die Laughing”
20. AFI – ”The Boy Who Destroyed the World”
21. Set Your Goals – ”The Few That Remain”
22. blink-182 – ”Going Away To College”
23. The Story So Far – ”High Regard”
24. Moving Mountains – ”Where Two Bodies Lie”
25. Bright Eyes – “First Day Of My Life”

These charts are compiled from our last.fm group. If you’d like your plays to count, join up!

All these songs (with the exception of Paramore and Seahaven) are conveniently located in this Spotify playlist, along with our past top songs of the week!  

Hi guys, Neesh here!  Not too long ago the Gatekeeper of Turntable.FM, Jessipedia, stopped by our room to tell us the good news!  Our tweets and facebook page paid off… and we have been selected to be Turntable’s Room of the Week!

2pm EST tomorrow (Thurs, Nov 17th) Jess will be coming back to conduct an interview in the chat.  Hopefully you can stop in to be part of this, and also participate in some 1&done!

Jon (TheRareCreature) here!  EVERYBODY BE THERE! YOU’RE ALL THE REASON WE WON!

The Wonder Years - “Woke Up Older” (Nervous Energies session)

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Chunk! No Captain Chunk - “In Friends We Trust”
Something For Nothing
Invogue/Fearless Records

Top played songs in Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative Emo last week according to our last.fm group:

1. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – “In Friends We Trust”
2. Pianos Become The Teeth – “I’ll Be Damned”
3. La Dispute – “Why It Scares Me”
4. Pianos Become The Teeth – “Such Confidence”
5. Pianos Become The Teeth – “I’ll Get By”
6. The Wonder Years – “Logan Circle”
7. The Wonder Years – “Dynamite Shovel”

To have your plays counted, make sure to join the group!  By the way, TurntableScrobble is a very handy resource if you’d like to scrobble the songs you hear on Turntable!

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