http://www.canyouseethesunset.com Music & More Since 2005 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:11:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. I first heard them in 2003 (I think) and first saw them live in 2004, and somehow over the past 6 years or so Lucero has become my favorite band. I mean, I’ve seen them live a dozen or so times and my Last.fm stats pretty much echo that. ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/lucero-1372-overton-park/ On their 4-song demo, Dummy Room plays the sort of no-frills Chicago-style punk that I grew up listening to. The songs are short, fast, aggressive blasts of punk rock that are uncomplicated and raw but refreshing to hear amidst all the overproduction in today's so-called "punk" scenes. If ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/dummy-room-demo/ Here's the sixth in this series but first since the site's been revamped and first is quite some time. The most obscure track here is probably Lounge's "Danbury." Makes me wonder what ever happened to these guys. MP3 [wpaudio url="http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/music/poppunk/051_rancid_roots_radicals.mp3" text="Rancid - Roots Radicals"] ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/pop-punk-junk-vol-6/ Hailing from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, Snowing is yet another star player in the current revival of that mid-90's emo sound that we all love (well, at least I do) so much. The band has only been in existence for about a year and features ex-members of Street Smart Cyclist ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/snowing-fuck-your-emotional-bullshit-ep/ It must have been at least a couple months ago that I got an envelope in the mail that contained the three song Even A Little EP from Venna. The CD came in an envelope that was sealed with hand-stamped wax and a personal letter that was typed ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/venna-even-a-little-ep/ Out of the blue a few months ago I got a call from my former Allister band mate Scott Murphy about the possibility of having our oldest daughter Hailey model for the cover of his upcoming CD Guilty Pleasures Love. Scott is (for those of you who don't know) ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/my-daughter-hailey-vs-scott-murphy/ The Gateway District is a pop-punk supergroup from Minneapolis that features current or ex-members of notable bands like (The Soviettes, The Salteens, Banner Pilot, Dear Landlord, Off With Their Heads, Rivethead, and American Monsters). Did you just shit your pants? Don't worry, I understand, my 4 month old daughter ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/the-gateway-district-some-days-you-get-the-thunder/ Transit is a Boston-based quintet that, on their latest EP Stay Home, makes me want to do just that and stay home listening to these six songs all night. These songs are filled with unabashedly passionate emotional hardcore that's got (for good measure) one foot still in the pop ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/transit-stay-home-ep/ We've got two albums from The Cretins (courtesy of my wife) that I recently re-packed away somewhere in a box in my garage, but before doing that I ripped them to MP3's and gave 'em a few listens. Those two albums from about 10 years ago are full of ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/the-cretins-more-stoopider/ Things move so fast around here and (for all intents and purposes) this blog has been fairly dormant for the past 3 months or so. My youngest daughter, Teagan, was born in July and in addition to being a bit of a handful, having two kids is way more ... http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/just-a-little-update/