We\u2019re maximuming our plaid here, folks! That\u2019s right, I\u2019m somehow doing another MxPx album.<\/p>
To reiterate: there is<\/em> a point to all this looking back: Lazy & Entitled has another record coming out soon, a Shipwrecked Sailor<\/a> record (more accurately b & the shipwrecked sailor, but there\u2019s some name tweaks maybe coming, more on that later). It\u2019s going to be more in line with Brendan and my punk roots than Weight of An Anchor<\/a><\/em>. I quit drinking and can play guitar fast again, who knew? <\/p> MxPx was one of if not my favorite band for a long while there. Does MxPx count as skatepunk? Poppunk? At 16, I was most comfortable right between those two genres, as I saw them. MxPx had one of the cooler names out there, they stayed true to three-piece minimalism, and (importantly) they were vocal Christians. I\u2019ve always liked my punk with a message\u2014if you can barely play your instrument, you better get me amped up to love my fellow humans and pursue righteousness. <\/p> Then 2003\u2019s Before Everything & After<\/em> came out, which kinda revealed MxPx was slowing down, creatively and physically. My tastes changed, and when I was fresh out of college and mad at organized religion the way only 22-year-olds can be, I heard salacious, scandalous things about one of the members that I cannot now confirm or find evidence of. Still, for a longer time than I was a fan, MxPx lived in my head as \u201cuncreative hypocrites.\u201d <\/p> Today I\u2019m going to see if their first- or second-best album holds up. <\/p> Next week, I\u2019ll do something different. <\/p> Under Lock and Key<\/strong><\/p>