I Like… Week: Introduction.

Well, I’ll be honest with you, I’ve not had as much time as I’d like to get any decent (ha) writing done thus far in 2010, but still, great new bands/records/songs/live shows keep pilin’ up week by week at unprecedented speed as the big ol’ “hey, slapdash punk rock is back and it’s GREAT” roll of ’09 continues into the new year, adding further credence to my highly subjective belief that those of us who inexplicably pursue an eternal ideal of smart kids banging out stupid racket in 4/4 are living through a truly golden age for the appreciation of such things.

Clearly I’d love to put time aside to fight the anti-word count cause and get characteristically verbose about all of these brilliant little sherbert-bomb bursts of song that people are throwin’ around the internet with only an oblique sentence or something by way of commentary, but… but… y’know, it’s not gonna happen man. Far better if I just take a deep breath and blast through as many as I can for you this week, before it all gets forgotten and blows away into digital fairy-dust and saddos like my circa-2025 self reminiscing on whatever fora circa-2025 saddos use to talk to themselves in thinly-veiled self-deprecating monologue – “gawd, remember that whole Male Bonding/Pens thing – what a laugh – I’ve still got all the 7” filed away in one of my shoeboxes somewhere – I’ll row out to the shed some time in my radiation-proof canoe and have a look”.

And so forth. None of us want that, so let’s get it out of the way now. GOOD STUFF, no particular order, spread across the next week or so, starting tomorrow.

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