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To simply peg Say Anything as an emo or pop punk band, or merely a product of the explosive 2000s pop punk scene, would be to sell short their long, nuanced, and expansive history, throughout which they’ve become one of their era’s greatest rock bands, period. Helmed by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Max Bemis, the group formed in 2000,…

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To simply peg Say Anything as an emo or pop punk band, or merely a product of the explosive 2000s pop punk scene, would be to sell short their long, nuanced, and expansive history, throughout which they’ve become one of their era’s greatest rock bands, period. Helmed by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Max Bemis, the group formed in 2000,…
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Despite announcing last year that he was stepping away from his famed and long-running group Say Anything, eclectic punk rock lifer Max Bemis still managed to release one last album (for now) under the moniker earlier this year. Dubbed Oliver Appropriate, it is, fittingly, something of a sequel to the LP that helped put Say Anything on…
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Despite announcing last year that he was stepping away from his famed and long-running group Say Anything, eclectic punk rock lifer Max Bemis still managed to release one last album (for now) under the moniker earlier this year. Dubbed Oliver Appropriate, it is, fittingly, something of a sequel to the LP that helped put Say Anything on…
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Over the past few years, indie/pop punk outfit Say Anything have transitioned from pseudo-band (always the brainchild of singer and songwriter Max Bemis, but with a more or less fixed live lineup) to one man show with a revolving door of contributors and players, and, as a result, have taken more artististic risks and experimental leaps than…
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A supergroup made up of Say Anything’s Max Bemis and Saves the Day’s Chris Conley, beloved indie punk act Two Tongues released their one and only album in 2009, delighting fans and cementing something of a cult legacy. Though Bemis and Conley have performed some of the material with their respective projects, and even together when…
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Able to transcend genres, “scene” labels, audience demographics, and conventional musical business models, Say Anything, largely the live vehicle of eclectic frontman Max Bemis, have, over the last decade and half, become one of the most important pseudo-underground bands in rock. Celebrating the release of their surprise new album and ferocious return to form, I Don’t…
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Able to transcend genres, “scene” labels, audience demographics, and conventional musical business models, Say Anything, largely the live vehicle of eclectic frontman Max Bemis, have, over the last decade and half, become one of the most important pseudo-underground bands in rock. Celebrating the release of their surprise new album and ferocious return to form, I Don’t…
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Over the past few years, indie/pop punk outfit Say Anything have transitioned from pseudo-band (always the brainchild of singer and songwriter Max Bemis, but with a more or less fixed live lineup) to one man show with a revolving door of contributors and players, and, as a result, have taken more artististic risks and experimental leaps than…
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The new year is obviously in full swing, because this week brought a seemingly endless barrage of show announcements, new releases, and news items. We’ll forgive you if you missed a few, because we barely remember even covering them all. By now you know the drill, read on for everything we covered last…