#knuckles up

​Tre Sera, Sevin, And Dim Mak Team Up On Banger "Knuckles Up"

Dim Mak, Tre Sera, and Sevim have teamed up on a smooth banger that doesn’t blow minds with loudness but sneaks up and empowers them with smooth, well-placed bass drops. ‘Knuckles Up’ is the fusion of Tre Sera’s next-level LA-influenced bass game and Sevim’s eye for experimental sounds influenced from Turkey and layed into ‘Knuckles Up.’ These two dudes have a combined play count of 1 million over the last 6 months, can’t wait for to see what the next 6 will bring us.

https://soundcloud.com/dimmakrecords/tre-sera-sevim-knuckles-up

12) “Amazing Grace” - Flatfoot 56

So, here’s a sentence you won’t hear me say often - my mom got me into Flatfoot 56.

Backstory: when I was growing up, I used to attend an annual 4-day music festival in central Wisconsin. In 2005, I had a competing engagement and was out of the country at the time, and my family was kind enough to bring me home some merch - t-shirts, CDs, the like. My dear mother, who is not slightly into any form of alternative rock, even made the rounds with an ear open for new artists she thought I might like. She scored a few pretty good hits in her haul, the best of which Flatfoot 56′s Knuckles Up (the 2004 independent release - I gotta get my punk hipster shots in somewhere).

I’ve been into the band since, so when I went to the Warped Tour in 2010 and found that they were playing a set, I made it a point to catch it. The boys put on a hell of a live show, managing to fully rock out a tiny platform stage in the middle of a festival grounds in Milwaukee, WI. The highlight of the show for me, though, was toward the end of their set, when they played today’s selection, a Celtic punk rendition of the traditional hymn, “Amazing Grace.” The entire moment was something I’ll never forget. The crowd - which consisted largely of a bunch of burly, bearded 20-something men who had been going fairly hard through most of the show - slowed it down for this one, throwing arms over each others’ shoulders and singing along. Believe me when I tell you that a hundred or so punk dudes singing “Amazing Grace” arm in arm is a sight to behold. It was one of my favorite concert-going memories, and one I will always be glad I was a part of.