A peek into the archives

I decided that during my tenure with Punkrocks.net I wrote some funny stuff. Don't get me wrong, I wrote some incredibly unfunny stuff as well. In the spirit of living in the past and all that shit, I have decided to post a few things from Punkrocks.net that I got angry emails about. This first one really set a fire under the ass of somebody at Fueled By Ramen, because they proceeded to email me about how much of a dick I was. I was poking fun at tribute albums because 9 times out of 10 they are completely worthless, so here we go.

Tribute albums are the latest craze these days, which is why Fueled By Ramen has decided to stay on top of the competetion. In March 2005 the label will be releasing Hold On Loosely A Tribute To 38 Special. The label is facing a rather small problem though. Nobody seems to know any other 38 Special song other than Hold On Loosely which is why a decision was made to include 14 seperate covers of Hold On Loosely.

The label has proved over the past 2 years that they can sell just about anything to this new crop of youngsters exposed to indie music, which is why the redunant tendencies they have shown when signing watered down pop act, after pop act, after pop act, have spilled over into the ideas surrounding this tribute album.

Bands for this tribute album haven't been picked yet, but inside sources have told me The Academy Is will be on it, as well as 13 other bands that sound just like The Academy Is.

The label has also comissioned Peter Wentz from Fallout Boy to write a book about the guitar player of 38 Special entitled The Life And Times of Don Barnes. In reality the book doesn't offer any insight into the life of Don Barnes. Instead, it is pretty much 300 pages of cliche "scene" imagery and lots of Chuck Palahniuk worshipping.