#StayNegi: Good Riddance To Green Day

Doing research for that last post took me back to my childhood: some good music was listened to, some terrible music was listened to and lots had changed since the break of all those bands.  Nirvana lost their lead singer, which lead to a new band and a political career, Pearl Jam got clean, Alice in Chains lost their lead singer, Soundgarden happened, in reality, the 90s happened.   With the 90s came the boom of Fat Wreck Chords, Lookout! Records, Asian Man Records, and more with this huge push for this poppy punk sound. A break out star of that punk scene was Green Day, and holy shit how far have they fallen? 

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All Or Nothing: A Pennywise Review

Today marks the drop of the new Pennywise album, "All Or Nothing", their first studio album since 2008 and the first album with new lead singer Zoltán Téglás.  For those of you who don't know, I'm not exactly the biggest fan of "brocore", actually I down right detest it, I wanted to give this album a listen.  New singer leads to new sound, maybe?  You can stream the album on The Dying Scene and head out to purchase it wherever you get your records.  

Here you will read my first impressions as I listen to the tracks one by one for the first (and probably only time):

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