a nostalgic moment

With everyone complaining about how shitty music is these days, it makes for a good time to reflect on bands you listened to in the past. With that being said, it's good to see a lot of bands coming out of hiatus to help improve the state of the music industry. Over the past year we've had bands like No Doubt, Blink 182, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Get Up Kids making a comeback. These were some of the bands that influenced the new generation of bands, but somehow these new bands got lost along the way and stumbled upon certain tricks to get by (i.e. vocal effects and using tracks to play their instruments for them). I actually found a pretty funny article where The Get Up Kids apologize for inadvertently creating the neon emo fad that's currently dominating the scene. have a look at it here - http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4137393-if-this-is-the-world-we-helped-create-then-i-apologise-the-get-up-kids-get-back

Back when i was growing up, i would listen to a lot of NOFX and 311. Those were bands with great songs and worked hard to get to where they are. If you haven't listened to these bands before, you should step into my nostalgic music 101 class =)
Check them out here:



You Wouldn't Believe

burn burn

Our Lady Peace's new album, "Burn Burn", just recently came out and it's been 4 years since they've put out an album.

Has anyone listened to it yet? I still need to get to a record store to pick it up.
After hearing the first single, "All You Did Was Save My Life", i could already tell that i was going to love the new album. This band never seems to disappoint with putting out hit singles and great songs.
Check out their first single off that album:

From White Stripes to Dead Weather

The other day I came across a band called The Dead Weather that happens to be the side project of Jack White. I had no idea he was doing something else outside of The White Stripes and apparently he plays drums in this band. There’s also members of The Kills and Queens Of The Stones in the band as well. I had a listen to their song “Treat Me Like Your Mother” and it’s not bad. Have a listen to it here:

LouderLoudest invades

Hey everyone,

While Hipflasks is on a leave of absence, I'll be here taking over the blogging.

My main background and interests are music / bands / the industry, so be on the look out for music related blogs!

-LouderLoudest