BLATANT FINGER

You’ve got to have pretty big balls to call yourself punk rock in an era where boy bands rule the roost. You’ve got to have even bigger balls to sound nothing like today’s mainstream punk rock standard, which is Blink-182, who are a bunch of pussies. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Blatant Finger. Their debut disc, Sit & Spin, is audio testament to their swollen gonad proclamation-- 13 tracks of slightly country-fried punk rock and roll. Sit & Spin wholly embodies Blatant Finger’s sound-- a roughness and toughness reminiscent of early ‘80s Bad Religion (before they got old and started repeating themselves like old people often do). They’re easily comparable to Social Distortion or The Gotohells, mostly because of Tom Barrett’s gravel-throated singing style. They also hit you with the same fuck-you, bar room attitude those bands do. Quite a refreshing similarity, really, considering every other new punk act is wearing out that Green Day pop punk style to death. Sit & Spin has catchy hooks, up tempos, heavy guitars, and a song called “Burning Hippies”. (God bless you boys.) It’s well-honed and well-crafted, especially for a debut. Blatant Finger aren’t writing goofy, stupid stories for the TRL crowd. They’re doing a hard-luck genre honorable justice. Not too shabby, seeing as how most new punk sucks. Support good music. Contact the Fingers here.