Jim Beaugez
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“I’m not a shredder. I don’t do leads. The solo was figured out on the spot”: Jim Adkins on the making of Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American – and The Middle’s iconic guitar lead (opens the original)
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25 years ago, Jimmy Eat World’s breakthrough 2001 album, Bleed American, took the Arizona emo band from VFW hall shows to the top of the charts. But it almost didn’t happen at all. To paraphrase frontman and co-guitarist Jim Adkins on the album’s mega hit The Middle, it just took some time. Scooped up by Capitol Records during the ’90s alternative-rock gold rush, Jimmy Eat World arrived in major-label land with just a scrappy indie release of speedy pop-punk under its belt and a growing interest
“You will not meet a punk-rock songwriter who doesn’t love the Descendents. They’re responsible for what’s so popular today”: The secret to Descendents’ seminal punk guitar sound and why Milo stood the test of time (opens the original)
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In 1982, American punk rock was evolving at a pace matched only by the blistering bpms pounded out by defining East Coast hardcore bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Misfits. Down in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, though, a crew of four teenagers calling themselves the Descendents were perfecting a new take on the genre. Stacked with speedy odes to decidedly adolescent concerns – unrequited love, greasy food and the specter of adulthood – the band unleashed their massively influential d
“It sounded too clean to me, honestly, but when I heard it with everything else, it was amazing”: How a little songcraft and a lot less gain brought chart success for emo-punk vets Joyce Manor (opens the original)
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South Bay L.A.’s Joyce Manor have built a reputation for crafting short, spirited blasts of emo-punk, but there’s something different about their latest LP, I Used to Go to This Bar. And producer Brett Gurewitz has as much to do with it as the band themselves, according to frontman Barry Johnson. For the first time, they didn’t double-track the rhythm guitars, and they also eighty-sixed the high-gain amps. But instead of trashing the band’s energetic sound, the simplified production leveled up t
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