Month: March 2025

Interview: Grady Allen of Anxious

Anxious
Adam Grundy

Recently I was able to catch up with the lead vocalist of Anxious, Grady Allen, on the road to discuss everything that went into the band’s excellent sophomore LP, Bambi. I asked Grady about how the headlining shows have been going for Anxious, if he felt any pressure during the writing process between Little Green House and Bambi, and much more. If you’re looking to support Anxious on the road, check out a show, or visit their merch store here.

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Review: Hit The Lights – Summer Bones

Adam Grundy

The fourth studio album from pop-punk band, Hit The Lights, called Summer Bones is a solid collection of songs that bookmarked where the band felt most comfortable in. The record has since turned ten years old today, and Hit The Lights have not released a full-length record since then. The closest we got to new music was the 2016 EP, Just To Get Through To You, that also featured acoustic versions of several tracks from Summer Bones. Summer Bones was produced by Kyle Black (New Found Glory/All Time Low/State Champs) and highlights a familiar sound from the band’s most successful record, 2008’s Skip School, Start Fights. After the experimental Invicta, Summer Bones has the vibe of a more matured version of the band, and still plays out well to this day. The set would spawn three singles in “Fucked Up Kids,” “Life on the Bottom” and “No Filter.”

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Fun With Computer Names & Icons

MacBook
Jason Tate

I think I started naming my computers sometime in high school. If memory serves it was probably something I picked up from my computer networking friends.1 I think it started with Linux servers but has carried over to my desktops and laptops.

Even today my servers have names (Chorus is Melody, the Forum is Overture, the headless Mac Mini in the closet is Harmony).

And my personal computers are named as well. However, it was only in the last, I dunno, ten years or so, that I also started giving them custom icons to go with their names. I heard John Siracusa talk about this on a podcast at some point and I realized I had not actually changed my hard drive icon in years. I remember doing it on Classic Mac OS and one of my earliest computer memories was making my 3.5 floppy disc have a custom Bart Simpson icon. And I change quite a few of my dock icons2 to be, to me, more aesthetically pleasing and similar.

Now I not only change the name of the computer, I also change the hard drive icon.

My desktop, the big beefy boy that he is, is named Optimus:

And the sleek black laptop is named The Batmobile:

The IconFactory has a lot of awesome icons.3 And so does Louie Mantia.

It’s fun. I recommend it.

  1. A “class” where a select group of us learned how to, and then ran, the school’s network and website.↩

  2. This is my Mac Studio — desktop/work computer.↩

  3. That 1989 Batman Batmobile is so perfect I think I saw the icon before I even came up with the idea of naming a laptop this.↩

This week’s wall picks is me begging for the sun to come out. Please. Let me blast that Relient K album to a sunny with a high of 75 this week.

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Yellowcard to Debut New Music Tomorrow

Yellowcard
Jason Tate

Yellowcard will be debuting “snippets” of two new songs on their Discord this weekend.

Tomorrow (Saturday, March 22) a link will go live in our Discord between the hours of 7pm PST and 8pm PST containing snippets of two new songs, fresh from the recording studio – one of which has never before been heard by the public. After you listen, you can vote in the Discord poll to let us know which track was your favorite!

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