Descendents: Readage

DESCENDENTS are arguably the most influential American punk band. With the seminal ‘Milo Goes To College’, the group stood in stark contrast to the posturing of most hardcore bands in 1982. Collecting urgency, melody and humor in a way never heard before, songs like “I’m Not A Loser” and “Catalina” essentially forged the punk/pop genre as we now know it. Reformed in ’85, the band kept plugging away despite a number of line-up changes, making three more albums in just three years. Accumulating an arsenal of classics (“Silly Girl”, “Cheer”, “Sour Grapes,” “Clean Sheets”, “Coolidge”), they called it a day in 1987 but reunited again in 1996 to rock Warped!, plug ‘Everything Sucks’ and score an actual hit (“I’m The One”). Seven years later, Milo came out of the lab for ‘Cool to Be You’. READAGE was compiled in homage to DESCENDENTS: from a fan for the fans. In the words of vocalist Milo Aukerman, ‘Enjoy!’