{"id":1208,"date":"2014-02-27T05:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2014-02-27T05:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T13:46:29","slug":"cdauthorityzero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdauthorityzero\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Authority Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAuthority Zero
\n“Andiamo”
\n(Lava)<\/h4>\n

Popular punk. \u00a0Is that a feasible category for description? \u00a0I think you know what I’m talking about. Mainstage Warped Tour punk. \u00a0Catchy punk with lots of pop hooks. \u00a0Cooler than Good Charlotte, but coming up short of NOFX. \u00a0More punk than the Offspring but not as punk as Rancid. \u00a0Faster than Bad Religion, but not as fast Guttermouth.<\/p>\n

Some Rancid influences seep in on a couple of tracks with the ‘chinka chinka’ guitars, but mostly, this is upbeat, up-tempo quick shots of punk flavored rock. \u00a0Complete with requisite “fuck society let’s start a revolution lyrics”. \u00a0While all of that is fine and good, how many more bands like this do we need?<\/p>\n

Hopefully, the kids can make room for one more as Authority Zero rocks well within its paint by numbers formulas. \u00a0The songs are catchy, executed with passion and are hard to hate despite its complete lack of offering anything musically that hasn’t been mined a thousand ways previously. \u00a0So what can a band like this do? \u00a0Just write damn good songs and hope people have fun with it. \u00a0Mission accomplished as “Andiamo” serves up track after track of punked up nuggets of guitar and vocal hooks.<\/p>\n

“A Thousand Year War” does take some chances within its punk rock attacks showing Authority Zero stretching for some range. \u00a0And hey, any band that shows respect to Wall of Voodoo’s “Mexican Radio” gets points in my book. \u00a0This is basically fun stuff. \u00a0Go into this not expecting the second coming of punk and you should all have a good time. \u00a0If you don’t, go stand in the corner because you don’t play well with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authority Zero “Andiamo” (Lava) Popular punk. \u00a0Is that a feasible category for description? \u00a0I think you know what I’m talking about. Mainstage Warped Tour punk. \u00a0Catchy punk with lots of pop hooks. \u00a0Cooler than Good Charlotte, but coming up short of NOFX. \u00a0More punk than the Offspring but not as punk as Rancid. \u00a0Faster than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[639,3623,4171],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}