Daily Agenda Aug. 4: Blink-182 and Saviours

Something for the kids and their crazy older brothers

Blink-182
by Decider staff August 4, 2009

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Originally greeted as a sophomoric, sub-Green Day pretender, Blink-182 showed no sign of staying power when it broke through with 1997’s Dude Ranch. Yet a dozen years later (and four after its acrimonious breakup), Blink’s reunion is one of the summer’s biggest tours. (It stops at Marcus Amphitheater tonight.) How did this happen? Well, for all the juvenile humor—and there was plenty of it—in Blink’s music, the band knew how to write maddeningly catchy pop-punk songs that always had more pathos than their predilection for dick jokes indicated. A new single, “The Night The Moon Was Gone,” will be out soon, though the band says a new album won’t follow for some time. Joining Blink is one of its successors, Fall Out Boy, another band that has outlived its novelty status to release some fantastic pop albums.



Rescuing heavy metal from the back rooms of American sports bars and putting it in the earbuds of indie-rockers has earned bands like Mastodon, The Sword, and Oakland’s Saviours the backhanded sobriquet “hipster metal.” (An issue we already addressed in our hipster metal smackdown last week.) For what it’s worth, hipster metal hardly is a fair assessment of Saviours' sound, which crams black-tarred gobs of Venom and St. Vitus into a frenzied, buzzing, welt-raising assault with zero irony. Last year’s sophomore effort for Kemado, Into Abaddon, is every bit as punishing as fellow thrash revivalists Skeletonwitch, as

tonight's show at Cactus Club

should demonstrate.

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