Music

Delivery day! ๐Ÿค˜ ๐Ÿฆ‡

Incredible #Sum41 concert last night: final European tour & show, biggest headlining crowd of their career (41.410 in the biggest indoor arena in Europe

Bonus: the wonderful Neck Deep as the opener!

Woah: the @yellowcard concert was hella fucking fun! Now to rest before the final Sum 41 show in Europe. ever. Tomorrow night!

Headed out to the @yellowcard โ€œ20 Years of Ocean Avenueโ€ #concert tonight ๐Ÿค˜

Fuck all your empathy, I want your fury

Hell of a line, Mike. ๐ŸŽถ

Linkin Park, From Zero, album cover

๐ŸŽถ I typically only work 4 days a week, so Fridays are big important family days

๐ŸŽถ Happy @LinkinPark #FromZero release day to all those who celebrate!

๐ŸŽถ ๐Ÿ“š Finished reading โ€œWalking Disasterโ€ a few days ago, the autobiography/memoir by Sum 41 founder Deryck Whibley. As a huge Sum 41 and pop punk fan, this was great and revealed a lot of things I had never heard of before. Highly recommend it for likeminded fans! #BookThreads

๐ŸŽถ At the Linkin Park concert tonight! @acmomento #LinkinPark #FromZero

What a great band โ€” and the addition of Emily Armstrong is fantastic: such a great voice!

๐ŸŽถ Well… this is just over a year away, but bound to be a lot of fun! @Offspring with @SimplePlan as the opening act ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽค๐Ÿค˜๐ŸŽธ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Concert tickets for The Offspring with opening act Simple Plan

๐ŸŽถ Added my concerts to the @ACMomento Music Beta and I gotta say this one was possibly the most โ€œyou just had to be thereโ€ moment!

๐ŸŽถ Turns out the great Vinyl market drought was an error. Here’s Discogs with the explainer:

Youโ€™ve likely felt the panic this week: Vinyl sales are reportedly down by (a somewhat ironic) 33.3%, marking the first decline in 17 years. Inflation and industry greed are to blame. But these headlines didnโ€™t paint the entire picture.

[…] Discogs contacted Chris Muratore, director of partnerships at Luminate, who confirmed that the reported data is incorrect. Vinyl sales are actually up 6.2 percent. Billboard has since added language to their โ€œMarket Watchโ€ report, clearing up the error.

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๐ŸŽถ โ€œThe Frayโ€ released a new album last week and I was wondering why it sounded so different. Turns out, the lead singer is no longer in the band and owns a record store nowโ€ฆ #TheFrayIsBack #HowToSaveALife

๐ŸŽถ Happy new @blink182 release day to all those who celebrate religiously! #PopPunkKid

๐ŸŽถ As a Punk Rock kid, I’ve been having a lot of fun with Dan Ozzi’s “Sellout” audiobook and getting to (re-)discover different punk bands.

A recent favorite: The Donnas!

Dan Ozziโ€™s book, โ€œSellout: The major-label  feeding frenzy that swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)โ€

๐ŸŽถ Itโ€™s here and itโ€™s glorious! ๐Ÿค˜๐ŸŽธ๐ŸŽต

Sum 41 - Heaven x Hell record, vinyl Cornetto editionSum 41 - Heaven X Hell vinyl

# John Mayer (Solo, Live in Paris)

๐ŸŽถ About last night: My all-time favorite artist (John Mayer) playing his very first concert in Paris. It was my second time seeing John after attending the Paradise Valley tour back in 2013 It was really cool to see him take the stage by himself for 2 hours! John played mostly acoustic, but it was โ€ฆ

๐ŸŽถ โ€œModern life is mostly bullshit, so why not pogo your way to the grave?โ€

Green Dayโ€™s new album Saviors reviewed on The New Yorker

๐ŸŽถ What an album! Been on repeat non-stop since Friday #PopPunk #GreenDay

Screenshot of Apple Music: Green Dayโ€™s new album Saviors is being played!

๐ŸŽถ Listening to Green Day’s American Idiot (the album) front to back for the first time in a while, outside of the big singles.

Damn, it really is a FINE album with some great tracks, lyrics, musicality!

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๐ŸŽถ Mark singing this part always gets me:

“I begged for your forgiveness
I made a deal with God
I took you all for granted
You can write my epilogue”

๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ’”

๐ŸŽถ Been meaning to read this for years so glad to finally catch-up via the Audiobook

๐ŸŽถ Blink-182 is forever!

๐ŸŽถ Had a lot of fun catching up on the live set from Sum 41 at this year’s HellFest!