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Posted by aubin on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 9:39 AM (EDT)

"New issue of AMP Magazine now online with a cover story on Shadows Fall, features on Blink 182, Boys Night Out, Brazil, The Break, Comeback Kid, Further Seems Forever, Hawthorne Heights, Sahara Hotnights, Tiger Army, Walls Of Jericho and more. Also, the usual record reviews and columnists." You might also want to check out the third comp. in the AMP Presents series, which focuses on metal and hardcore.

AMP Magazine (47 comments)

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

first what about the street punk comp? that was good stuff

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

Yeah, that comp was great. I actually have all 3, and it's pretty amazing the way that theyc over the gerne's. Some big bands, some small bands, some new bands, some old bands. I would imagine it's pretty hard to put a comp together and cover a whole genre in 20 songs and not piss a lot of people off, but they do it pretty well. Cheap as hell too. I got all 3 comps and an AMP t-shirt for like $20 thrpough their web page.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

uhhhhhhhhhh right. if i wanted an infomercial, I'd ask for one.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

Hey, why don't you suck it. Didn't sound like an infomercial to me. Way more helpfull than your shit ass coment...

Someone (September 22, 2004)

ahh what are ya at bah?

Someone (September 22, 2004)

ive read the BNO interview before. Im not impressed

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

I've read your comments before. I'm not impressed either. That interview is fine. Ray Harkins (interviewer) is brilliant, and his band kicks ass.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

im not impressed that they reused an old interview, not the interview its self

CrookedSuperhero (September 22, 2004)

Damn, not to intrested in these bands. Boring issue, for me anyway.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

AMP sucks. It's basically just a bunch of ads for mediocre hardcore bands.

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

Yeah, I agree. AP is so much better, being filled with puff pieces on overrated bad pop-punk bands.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

no one said that was any better. dumb fuck.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

I think that, sarcasticaly, they were just saying that AMP has better content, which was being slagged, than other magazines out there... you dumber fuck.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

yawn

Someone (September 22, 2004)

I guess I have exact oposite tastes in music as a couple people ahead of me, as this is like the perfect issue for me. I love almost all of these bands.

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

therefore you suck.

swingline (September 22, 2004)

do you like boys night out? and penis?

Someone (September 22, 2004)

well definetly not yours asshole

Someone (September 22, 2004)

Another great issue.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

How frickin' funny are STM's record reviews? This magazine just has a lot of charachter. Good stuff.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

Shadows Fall rule. I saw them as guests on Headbangers Ball the other night. Pretty funny. Great interview by the way.

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

i just got done listening to their new album and i must say that it's a lot better than the art of balance (and i really liked that one)

Someone (September 22, 2004)

So, what does everybody think of the new green day?

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

http://www.punknews.org/reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=3310

Someone (September 25, 2004)

It's excellent!

Someone (September 22, 2004)

It doesn't matter if you like the band or not, but did anyone check out the Further Seems Forever interview? "As a personal friend I am happy for him. Jason fits us much better now, and I think Chris is more in is element doing what he is doing now." lets see, Jason's been gone since...JANUARY 21 Who writes this crap??

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

ahahaha that's good times right there.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

>Who writes this crap?? people who need ad money? bling bling, you punk motherfuckers. bling bling.

InaGreendase (brian) (September 22, 2004)

The Boys Night Out interview is about a year old, so I'im sure it's the same case with a couple of these.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

AMP may suck, but this doesn't: http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=16478&

Someone (September 22, 2004)

Rumors about green day having beef with tom from blink on pop disaster can't be true can it? hmm....read below... tom delonge : "It’s hard when you’re a band that starts having success because everyone wants to doubt you and everyone thinks that you’re gonna be gone tomorrow and everyone thinks that you’re just copying someone else. I mean, when we first came around everyone said we were copying Green Day or something. We wanted to yell out, “we’re nothing like Green Day, we don’t wanna be like Green Day.” That’s not even who we listen to, we like better bands and it took us years to develop and let people know what kind of band we really were and why we’re different from everybody else. I feel the same kind of sympathy for the other bands that come out that may find us as an influence and maybe people are pegging them as a Blink 182 knock-off, it’s weird"

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swingline (September 22, 2004)

are you dumb? greenday did an interview knocking blink like 2 years ago during the end of the pop disaster tour. tre said blink was use to being outstaged because they've toured with alk3 and tre bashed tom especially for being antisocial and only speaking to his manager when not hidden in his tour bus. funny interview forgot where i read it though.

LiberationFreak (September 22, 2004)

green day did a hilarious interview in an old GuitarWorld where they bashed Nirvana, the Sex Pistols, Blink 182 and lots more!

Someone (September 23, 2004)

that was in kerrang. go home teenyboppah.

BizzleBrizzle (September 22, 2004)

You are often pegged as a Christian group, usually because you are on Facedown, but I really don't detect any lyrical content or on stage banter that I would consider preachy or even related to religion. Do you often get asked by fans/interviewers about your faith as a band? We get asked that a lot. We are not a Christian band. Everyone in this band has different views as far as spirituality goes. We are four totally different people. When we first started out, we had no religious agenda or anything like that. We've never wanted to be that kind of group. Personally, I believe in Jesus and have a relationship with Him, but I'm not really big on labels. I'm a believer. Overall, as a band, we are just trying to be positive and write lyrics that people can relate to, lyrics about life. We go through a lot of stuff that other people go through.

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

"Personally, I believe in Jesus and have a relationship with Him" I KNEW Jesus was a Sodomite!

Someone (September 25, 2004)

?????????

Someone (September 22, 2004)

hey what the hell happened to Comeback Kid putting out their new cd...like soon? i mean. i'm positive it wasnt that long ago that i read they were going into the Blasting Room with bill stevenson to record their new album...i'm not imagining things, i know i read it. so what the hell? now they're claiming they havent even set studio dates? did i miss something?

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Someone (September 23, 2004)

bills' recording it still, but not yet...shortly, after the next only crime tour...

CrookedSuperhero (September 22, 2004)

I can't believe people bitch about the ads in AMP. $2 for a big magazine and free cds every time. Do you think they pay for it out their own pockets?

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Someone (September 22, 2004)

Agreed. Most magazines cost three times as much, and you get way less than half the content. i think they are an amazing magazine that is really great for punk rock.

LiberationFreak (September 22, 2004)

they turned down $50,000 to include AOL cds in the mag.

Someone (September 22, 2004)

Yeah, I remember reading about that. That was pretty rad. AP certainly wouldn't have turned that down. I think AMP is pretty legit, and does a real good job. It certainly has turned me onto a lot of really cool smaller bands.

maverick (scott) (September 22, 2004)

Who are you to say what AP would or wouldn't turn down? -Scott

JohnnyDanger (September 22, 2004)

Being over defensive just because you work there, when you wouldnt have made such a comment two years ago does NOTHING for your crediblity. AP is a toilet paper worthy flavor of the month magazine, get over it, enjoy your paycheck.

Someone (September 23, 2004)

haha, you're suck a dick. scott did nothing wrong you know, it's more likely that he knows what AP would or wouldn't do than some guy who comes here in between he's pornsurfing. and scott wouldn't lie about that, he has nothing to gain from doing that.

CrookedSuperhero (September 23, 2004)

God?

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