When Justin Bieber rules the charts and Lady Gaga is the alternative, who do you call for help? Well, my friend, in troubled times like these you’ll need a superhero the size of the Descendents. The good news is that they will be back in April, playing a few select shows in the USA, Belgium, Germany and the UK. Continue reading
A Descendents a Buzzcocks megfelelője volt a korai amerikai hardcore punk színtéren: dallamosabbak voltak bármelyik kortársuknál, és egy szemüveges jótanuló lúzer volt a frontemberük. De nem ezért érdekesek, hanem mert ők találták fel a dallamos hardcore punkot, vagy ha jobban tetszik, melodycore-t, kitaposva az utat olyan későbbi zenekarok előtt, mint a NOFX, vagy a No Use For a Name, vagy szinte bármelyik menő punk zenekar az Epitaph és a Fat Wreck legszebb napjaiból. Continue reading
The Descendents were the Buzzcocks‘ equivalent on the early American hardcore punk scene: they were a lot more melodic than their contemporaries, and they were fronted by a nerd. But they were much more than that. They invented melodic hardcore (or melodycore), paving the way for NOFX, No Use For a Name, and almost every popular punk band in the golden years of Epitaph and Fat Wreck. Continue reading