Saturday 17 November 2018

THE LAWRENCE ARMS






















"apathy and exhaustion"
Year:  2001
Label:  Fat wreck chords
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Pop Punk
















The Lawrence Arms got together in 1999 after the departure of Chicago punks the Broadways, Slapstick, Baxter, and Tricky Dick. The collaboration of Brendan Kelly (vocals/bass), Neil Hennessy (drums), and Chris McCaughan (guitar/vocals) produced music in the same vein of their previous bands: clever -- often politically inspired -- pop-punk with an aggressive, gritty edge. Asian Man Records released the Lawrence Arms' first album, A Guided Tour of Chicago, in November of 1999, while their second album, Ghost Stories, followed six months later. Present Day Memories, a split release with Asian Man peers the Chinkees, appeared in summer 2001. After 13 straight months of touring and drunken debauchery, the Lawrence Arms joined forces with Fat Wreck for 2002's Apathy and Exhaustion. The Greatest Story Ever Told was issued in September 2003; two years later Cocktails & Dreams, a compilation of B-sides, live recordings, and stray tracks, surfaced. Their next full-length, Oh! Calcutta!, came in March 2006, followed by a statewide tour with NOFX. With the exception of an EP in 2009, the wryly titled Buttsweat and Tears, the band was not to release anything further until 2014, thanks to the members' involvement in side projects the Falcon and Sundowner, and Hennessy's stint with Smoking Popes. In fact, some believed the band had split completely, until they announced in late 2013 that they had signed to Epitaph and would be releasing a new single, "News from Yalta," and a full-length album, Metropole, in January of the following year. The album had a melodic, accessible sound and was hailed as their most mature effort to date. ~ Mike DaRonco
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"the greatest story ever told"
Year:  2003
Label:  Fat wreck chords
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  33 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Pop Punk







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"oh! calcutta!"
Year:  2006
Label:  Fat wreck chords
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  33 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Pop Punk







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"metropole"
Year:  2014
Label:  Fat wreck chords
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  32 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Pop Punk







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"skeleton coast"
Year:  2020
Label:  Epitaph
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Pop Punk








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