From The Vault: A Conversation With Kappa Chow
From the vault we bring you an early 2014 conversation from Evan Mumford with Sackville, NB’s heart and soul of punk n’ roll – the Great Kappa Chow.
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Evan Mumford On Why Television Zombie by OUTTACONTROLLER is Perfect
1) Television.
2) Girlfriend.
3) Quitting a job.
These three pop punk tropes are examples of why pop punk can be the greatest genre or the absolute worse. Tropes #1 and #3 aren’t so much troublesome as they are tired; it’s #2 that is the problem child. This is where pop punk straddles the line of being charming & romantic and creepy & sexist. You show me Jawbreaker’s “Want” and I’ll flash Screeching Weasel’s “I Don’t Wanna Be Friends.”