Popcore?

If someone were to ask me, "Chris, I love pop punk music, but i also really love metal. There's just something about hooks and catchy riffs that get me, but at the same time i love wailing metal riffs and triplets on the open d like everyone does." I'd say look no more my friend look no more.

I randomly stumbled onto these guys on myspace. I still contest that despite all of myspace's faults their original intent has held true, discovering new music and bands.

The band is called Four Year Strong and the cd I actually purchased from itunes (yup you read that right i bought music from itunes) is called Rise or Die Trying. Their single "Heroes get rememberd, Legends Never Die" is an awesome collaberation between metal riffs and squeels mixed with pop vocals and awesome harmonies. I know it sounds odd, but they pulled it off pretty nicely. I'd have to say that a couple of the other songs like "Catrastrophe" has awesome double bass pedal parts, but is something that you could easily see on a Starting Line or Emery record...maybe not emery cause they are a lot better than they are given credit for, but you get what i'm saying.

Anyway check them out if nothing else go here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=21978073

And check out their single I bet you'll like it.

Also aside from the two songs i have to write and the 15 page paper that is due next week i've taken on a long term personal project to listen to all if not a good portion of the dicography of the following bands: Led Zepplin, Billy Joel, Wilco, and Radiohead.

I've never really aside from Wilco given any of these bands a real chance. It's not that i inherently don't like any of them, but the problem being that i don't have an opinion on any of them. So we'll see how that goes.

Latez
Chris