Day: December 8, 2012

The Caulfield Cult – Winter Tour 2012

The Caulfield Cult formed in early 2011 and are influenced by bands like Alkaline Trio, Hot Water Music, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, etc. , and self-released our debut full length “Leaving Cemetery Junction” on October 29th 2011. We have toured south east asia extensively and also the UK earlier this year in march and april.

Here are the dates:
13th December 2012 – Cornwall, UK
14th December 2012 – Brighton, UK
15th December 2012 – Brugge, Belgium
16th December 2012 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
17th December 2012 – Hengelo, Netherlands
18th December 2012 – Hamburg, Germany
19th December 2012 – Nuremberg, Germany
20th December 2012 – Geneva, Switzerland
21st December 2012 – Paris, France
22nd December 2012 – Gloucester, UK

all venues are on and will be updated on www.leavingcemeteryjunction.blogspot.com

Masked Intruder

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© 2012 Red Scare Records
[rating:8.5/10]

I’m big time late to the game. That generally seems to be the case. I’m finally getting around to listening to Masked Intruder. I’m speaking, of course, about the self-title release on Red Scare. I know they have some new stuff coming out in cooperation with Fat, but I’m not talking about that right now ok?

Anywhat, this new release busts 13 tracks of pop punk that is way too Descendents for a band named Masked Intruder, especially a band bedecked in a rainbow of ski masks, with songs of felonious intent. I was seriously expecting to hear some Blood for Blood style hardcore come pummeling out of my speakers. Instead I was gently assaulted by pleasant pop punk sounds that have a feeling of Descendents, Queers, Teenage Bottle Rocket and other bands that in essence sound zero like hardcore.

This is not a bad thing by any means. I’m fully digging on this disc and like the subtle trickery that I really brought on myself by making name based assumptions. I, as usual, like the fact that the songs are geared for short attention spans. Nothing hits the three minute mark, though some do come damn close, but never at or over … that is the key, right?

Ok, so bottom line, pop punk as only pop punk can be. The legacy of Buddy Holly and the Beach Boys lives on in a new form that has more distortion and guitar riffery, yet charmingly still has coordinated outfits, which as we all know, is critical.

–Jerry Actually