Post Punk

[saltymonkey]

I saw these guys last week on their reunion tour. I think they called it quits around 8 or 10 years ago. They killed it. Like they never stopped. Mario Rubalcaba is one of my favorite rock drummers. So solid and tasteful.

[Granny Gremlin]

Great tracks Saltymonkey! I hadn't heard a bunch of those.

Speaking of Fugazi ("post hardcore?" I guess that makes as much sense as anything) ...

Love Fugazi; Red Medicine is a tour de force.  Always considered them Emo (before the tweens got a hold of the term and started dressing like the bastard love children of an aged hair metal guitarist and a gothic candy raver; back in the 90s).  Along with Jawbreaker,  early Modest Mouse (they're older than your kids think) and other similar  quirky indie rock from the era.  Emo was originally a form of Post-hardcore (i.e. keeping the lyrical themes, but expanding on them and changing focus to personal vs societal orientation, and trying to break out of the Hardcore musical formula of Ramones on steroids.

... which all reminds me of these dudes:





Been trying to track down this record for a while, actually.

And since I mentioned them:





And how are there no Pixies in here yet?



Nirvana owes a lot to both the Pixies and Jawbreaker/early Emo in general.