The first part said "story about "chicago"", referencing this song:
I still love the album "How It Goes", but used to listen to it pretty much non-stop. The story I was thinking of was about 5 years ago. I was coming home from my first day at my first job as a swimming instructor at West Hill Pool. I was sent home early because a week or so before that I took an absolutely horrendous bail skating (a story for another time, probably my favourite anecdote) and was completely covered in road rash and scars and bloody bandages. It was pouring rain on the way home and this song started almost as soon as I got off of the bus. I was kind of pissed off that I had gotten screwed for work, but for some reason being absolutely drenched in rain and listening to this song made things seem pretty rad. I still think of that walk every time I hear this song. Also, it's up there as the best track on the record.
The second thing was "the impossibles" because I was really into The Impossibles for a bit at the start of the summer. The band's style of power-pop and ska is fucking great and they've been described as "ska-weezer", which is really an over-generalization, but also pretty apt. They're catchy and almost all the songs are about girls/love. Cool beans yo.
This was followed by "free dls" because there have been a ton of fucking awesome music put out for free recently.
Hold Tight! is an awesome band on Death To False Hope Records and have been described as "Lifetime/Latterman". Works for me. They are a really good band and I would seriously recommend getting their full-length Can't Take This Away. They put out a new EP called Call The Zoo! which is a Billy Madison reference. This makes me happy.
Direct Hit! is another DTFH alum who have put out a ton of awesome music. They recently took all of their best songs of off their five EPs, re-recorded them and put out a barnburner of a ramones-core/rowdy/pop-punk album. It's fucking sweet and fucking free.
Junior Battles are an awesome pop-punk band from Toronto. They are the nicest people on the planet. They signed to Paper and Plastick Records and are going to become huge rock stars. Their first full-length album came out at the start of this summer and they decided to put it out for free. You should download it because it's free and catchy and if you don't learn all the words, you are an idiot.
Lastly, The Swellers put out a new album at the start of the summer. I figured I wouldn't like too too much because I didn't like the direction they took with their last record so much. I was wrong! It's their best material they've put out! It takes everything good about alt-rock in the 90's and mixes it with everything good about poppy skate-punk. So so so good.
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