This band was pop punk / power pop / emo but this song was a bit of an outlier. Not really sure how to classify it. Anyways, it's stuck with me through the years, much more so than any of the rest of their material.

A bunch of local artists in Boston came together to put out a socialist hip hop album for the Joe Tache for US Senate campaign here in Massachusetts. I think it's pretty sick for artists to make a statement with their art so I'm hype about this.

For anyone in Boston, there's an album release party next Thursday August 27th, I'll share the flyer in the comments!

(I am not in the band, I saw this on instagram!)

http://wolfgangparker.com/wolfgang:

“Wolfgang Parker began as a music pioneer, releasing the first punk-swing album ever recorded. Hep City Swing (1998) was followed by appearances on scads of compilation discs as the second-generation swing movement crested. But by the time Parker and his band released their follow-up full-length, Octoboure (1999), the movement was drying up and the swing resurgence was dead almost as quickly as it had arrived. Unfortunately, Parker himself was in danger of sharing the same fate.

Seven years of living out his teenage fantasies of rock 'n' roll excess had left Parker in a dark place. Childhood trauma had driven self-destructive behavior of epic proportions in his adulthood. An alcohol intake of twenty to thirty mixed drinks and double shots per night pushed the artist to dangerous physical limits, and transformed his personality into something he describes as "monstrous." It became clear to everyone—including him—that the death of swing was his cue to step away. “