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Music Mondays: Know Your Enemy by Green Day

Today, February 24th, is the the 33rd anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, the bloodless, non-violent revolution that helped topple down the regime of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. The event brought back democracy into the Philippines after the corrupt dictator took sole control in 1972 upon declaring Martial Law. In line with this, thisContinueContinue reading “Music Mondays: Know Your Enemy by Green Day”

Happy birthday, Kurt Cobain!

Kurt Cobain was one of the most influential people in the 90’s, and he was incredibly reluctant about this. This reluctance to fame was probably contributed to him taking his own life in 1994, but his relevance and contributions to music and culture cannot be dismissed. So many things have been said about Kurt Cobain,ContinueContinue reading “Happy birthday, Kurt Cobain!”

Music Mondays: amo by Bring Me The Horizon

British metal band Bring Me The Horizon recently released a new album called amo, and the reactions are fairly mixed, mainly due to the band’s older fans not liking the fact that this album is their most un-metal release to date. amo is ~heavily~ influenced by electronic music (hope you saw what I did there,ContinueContinue reading “Music Mondays: amo by Bring Me The Horizon”

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – False Pretense (Live in Cebu, January 2016)

I saw The Red Jumpsuit earlier this month — January 16th to be exact — when they went to Cebu City as part of their Don’t You Fake It 10th Anniversary tour. Here is a video of them playing “False Pretense”. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday, Patrick Stump!!!

Happy birthday to one of my favorite band dudes, Fall Out Boy’s vocalist Patrick Stump!!! Patrick shares the same first name and birthday so he’s kind of special to me. Fall Out Boy was one of the bands that revitalized the emo scene back in the mid-2000’s, thanks in part to Patrick’s pretty good vocalContinueContinue reading “Happy Birthday, Patrick Stump!!!”

Happy 20th Birthday, Dookie!

February 1st, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Green Day’s first major label album, Dookie. It is considered by some the most influential punk album in history, mainly for launching punk into the mainstream music scene, setting the stage for today’s pop punk bands that kids, myself included, go crazy for. TheContinueContinue reading “Happy 20th Birthday, Dookie!”