Thursday, September 05, 2002

So I was gonna have a rant here about some contest that I keep on hearing about on Live105. It's for the Levi's Inland Invasion 2, some corporate sponsored punk concert and how there's so nothing punk rock about a concert sponsored by Levi's. Just as there's SO nothing punk rock about the Levi's Punk Rock Party Plane, but then I saw the concert listing and whose playing and it's all too depressing.

In a concert sponsored by Levi's and Clear Channel Entertainment, at the Blockbuster Pavillion, will be:

Sex Pistols
Offspring
Blink 182
Buzzcocks
TSOL
Circle Jerks
GBH
Pennywise
Bad Religion Distillers
New Found Glory
X
The Damned
Social Distortion
The Vandals
Unwritten Law
Adolescents

See, I was gonna say how those kids who grow up thinking that Blink-182 is a punk band, let alone Sum-41 and whatever other lame-ass bubble-gum punk rock band that constantly gets played on the radio, isn't really punk rock because it's way too clean and corporate. And that those kids should listen to some old skool punk bands to find out what punk is really about (editor's note- I am not really "punk rock" either, but have done some amount of slamming back in the day as well as spent my fair share of time in parking lots in Isla Vista drinking Mesiterbrau and listening to punk bands), but then I find out that all those old skool punk rock groups have now officially sold out just like everyone else.

Nevermind.

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