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Sometimes, we just don’t feel punk enough to be at punk shows. We didn’t really grow out of punk — the whole relationship was just a brief, satisfying flirtation. We thought we loved punk, but we just could never give it what it wanted. We weren’t the right girl. And, truth be told, even when we had pink hair and a tendency to wear leopard-print mini skirts and scarred Doc Martens, we just weren’t that punk. But, our lack of street cred didn’t keep us away from the Rancid show at Emo’s last night. more ›

When we were in high school, we used to put on our hemp necklaces, Doc Martens, and zip-off pants and go to concerts like Edgefest – you know, big generic shows filled with big, generic bands and thousands of kids dressed just like us taking in the music under a haze of very low-quality smoke. The Snow Patrol show this past Friday at Stubb’s gave us some unfortunate flashbacks. Nothing's wrong with Snow Patrol,... more ›