The Offspring, 'Splinter' (Columbia) ; blink-182, 'blink-182' (Geffen)
Pogoing all the way to the rest home.
By Andrew Beaujon 12.08.03 4:00 AM
California knows how to party. While straight-arrow East Coast punks were learning to suppress their gag reflexes while masticating Boca Burgers, their Golden State counterparts were doing beer bongs with hookers and pooping in audience members’ handbags. And ever since, it’s been fun, fun, fun till Arnie took the state house away.
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Artists to Watch: Obie Trice
Unless you skipped dinner, you probably didn't see Detroit native
Obie Trice on this summer's Rock the Mic tour--Eminem's latest
protege opened the shows at 6:30 P.M. "It's either this or the
'hood," says former drug dealer Trice, stoically, minutes before
his ten-minute set in Baltimore. Most people in the arena are still
looking for their seats, but Trice, 25, hits the stage hard,
barking his CD's release date every 20 seconds. After watching
labelmate 50 Cent's album explode, he's ready. "It's time to go,"
he says. "It's my time."
By Andrew Beaujon; Spin Staff 10.30.03 4:00 AM
Unless you skipped dinner, you probably didn't see Detroit native
Obie Trice on this summer's Rock the Mic tour--Eminem's latest
protege opened the shows at 6:30 P.M. "It's either this or the
'hood," says former drug dealer Trice, stoically, minutes before
his ten-minute set in Baltimore. Most people in the arena are still
looking for their seats, but Trice, 25, hits the stage hard,
barking his CD's release date every 20 seconds. After watching
labelmate 50 Cent's album explode, he's ready. "It's time to go,"
he says. "It's my time."
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Thursday, 'War All the Time' (Island)
Emo intensity from New Jersey.
By Andrew Beaujon 10.02.03 3:00 AM
Geoff Rickly really, really doesn’t want to work in an office. Thursday’s singer--who looks like Ziggy from The Wire and sings like Ben Folds after a particularly messy breakup--sees cubicle-bound Americans as dreamless drones. In “For the Workforce, Drowning,” from his band’s major-label debut, he imagines them pleading: “Touch me, please someone / Teach me how to swim!”
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Dashboard Confessional, 'A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar' (Vagrant)
Emo hero Chris Carrabba tries the rock-star thing.
By Andrew Beaujon 08.08.03 3:00 AM
He is a boy. You are a girl. Could he make it any more obvious?
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Bonnaroo 2003 Music Festival
Manchester, Tennessee
June 13-15, 2003
June 13-15, 2003
By Andrew Beaujon; Spin Staff 08.07.03 3:00 AM
Manchester, Tennessee
June 13-15, 2003
June 13-15, 2003
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A Conversation with Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson
Spin: In the liner notes of the box set, you were
unusually honest about disagreements you guys had about which
records to put out. Do you guys have a contentious
relationship?
By Andrew Beaujon; Spin Staff 07.22.03 3:00 AM
Ian MacKaye: Well we've known each other for 25 years or more, and we've certainly had our share of arguing.
Jeff Nelson: I think as much musical tastes as we share--we both pretty much love the Beatles above all else, and a lot of early stuff we both still love--our musical tastes have diverged quite a bit over the years.
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