I gotta be honest, I didn’t hear of Against Me! since its huge pop when the New Wave album was released back in ’07 and ever since then, I couldn’t stop listening to these guys. But even with the singer’s coming out announcement, I can’t change my opinion at all about their music.
I got curious about its music before New Wave so I went on to listen to ’02’s Against Me! is Reinventing Axl Rose, ’03’s Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy, ’05’s Searching for Former Clarity.
I even saw them live twice as. Once in ’08 as they opened for my favorite band Foo Fighters at The Forum in LA. The second time was in that same year’s Warped Tour at Carson, Calif.
Against Me! were pretty impressive and awesome live, as usual with punk bands.
The thing I loved best about Against Me! was the amazing raw voice of its their singer (recently known as Tom Gabel).
The song that had me was, “What We Worked For”.
Against Me!’s latest album was 2010’s White Crosses . The album contained pure punk fun music.
The band is set to release another band called, Transgender Dysphoria Blues which sounds very appropriate as it will be the debut of Laura Jane Grace.
I have yet to listen to music from the album but I wouldn’t expect less from the entire band, well maybe just a softer voice (maybe). But other then that, not much.
So keep rocking, Laura, even without them anymore, you have balls for doing what you’re doing in the mainstream state that you’re in.
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