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| "We get called the saviors of punk and the next big thing, but people talk about how we're ruining this music, too," croaks Fall Out Boy bassist/lyricist/author Peter Wentz. He's on tour and battling a throat infection, and he sounds like he just noshed on a frog. He can barely get words out, but he manages to be pleasant, upbeat, and to call me by name, as though he's known me my whole life. |
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BLEEDING THROUGH
"We pretty much didn't leave the road for a whole year and a half," responds vocalist Brandan Schiepatti when asked about Bleeding Through's activities since the last time we spoke at the end of 2003. "We went to Europe; we did the Headbanger's Ball Tour with Cradle of Filth. We did the Ozzfest. We did a couple of headline tours." READ MORE |
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THE OFFSPRING
When everything is said and done - when all the other bands on this year's Vans Warped Tour have cranked out their utmost, have expended their best, and finally lie exhausted, sunburned in the dust - The Offspring is going to take it all to another level. READ MORE |
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THE TRANSPLANTS
"We're having this problem right now," quips Rob Aston, better known as Skinhead Rob, frontman for pseudo-punk super-group The Transplants. "We're trying to figure out who we're gonna be going on tour with. READ MORE |
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BOYS NIGHT OUT
Ah yes, the concept album. If done properly, it can be like listening to a great novel. If done wrong, it can be a royal flop. In the case of Boys Night Out and their new album, Trainwreck, it's definitely the former. READ MORE |
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THRICE
Anyone who has made it through Thrice's marathon DVD, If We Could Only See Us Now, got enough in-studio footage of the band to last a lifetime. One thing that became apparent as the band slogged through the track-by-track recording process on their older albums is that overdubbing can sometimes be clinical, cold and calculated. READ MORE |
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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
I've heard (and helped propagate) many a stupid music journalist term for some new hybrid genre or another. But perhaps the worst one I've heard yet is "extremo." And even worse is that it's being used for the UK's Funeral for a Friend, who are about as extreme as Britney Spears, really. READ MORE |
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DROPKICK MURPHYS
When I call Al Barr, the lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys, he's standing in the parking lot of the Germain Amphitheatre in Columbus, Ohio. It's the first day of the Warped Tour, and the Dropkicks will be taking the stage in a couple of hours. READ MORE |
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MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
"Tell me that you're alright, that everything is alright," croons Justin Pierre on Motion City Soundtrack's first single off their sophomore album, Commit This to Memory. For a band that's claimed "the future freaks me out," everything appears to be A-OK with all that surrounds the release of their much anticipated follow-up to 2003's I Am the Movie. READ MORE |
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| Other Issue Features availiable in the Warped Tour 2005 Issue: • My Chemical Romance
• Senses Fail
• All American Rejects
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Underoath
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