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Let me tell you something: If my unfairly pale ass can stand outside under the hot summer sun and burn through bottle after bottle of sunscreen so I don’t turn a lovely shade of Recession Red, you can, too. Your reason: Warped Tour 2004.
Punk rock in spirit, punk-plus in musical selection, the Vans-sponsored road show takes to outdoor venues all across the country this summer. Who’s playing? Leave that to SideOneDummy Records.
As has become tradition, one of the mightiest independent labels releases this year’s edition of the Warped Tour showcase compilation this month. This two-disc behemoth lines up 52 bands (26 per disc) for your summer tour-hungry ears.
Punk vets like Bad Religion (\"God’s Love\") and The Descendents (\"\'Merican\") remind the new kids how it\'s done; practiced pros like Death By Stereo (\"Beyond The Blinders\"), The Real McKenzies (\"Droppin\' Like Flies\"), and The Casualties (\"Unknown Soldier\") fire up the pit; and young guns like Maxeen (\"Please\"), Go Betty Go (\"C\'mon\"), and From Autumn To Ashes (\"The After-Dinner Payback\") earn their punk rock summer camp stripes.
With bands from a million different labels playing a few different styles, this year’s compilation does its job, teasing you into frenzy enough to have you buying tickets to as many shows as you can afford.
Catch Warped Tour this summer at a big, empty place near you. I’ll be at the Milwaukee show, trying to steal beer from the bands backstage.
AUTHOR\'S NOTE: In all truth, it took me two hours to actually get around to listening to the full two discs. I was stuck on disc one, track three-- a brand-new Flogging Molly tune called \"To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)\". I kid you not, Flogging Molly is like musical crack cocaine to we chickens.
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vol 6 - issue 10 (jun 2004)
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