suburbs.
Green Day copped it when they fused punk with pop melodies. My Chemical Romance have more recently stood accused, branded with the now-dreaded "emo" tag.
Talent.
album, Billy Talent II, may have gone No. 1 in Canada and community.
"Punk to us isn't a label, it's a mentality," says singer Ben Kowalewicz. "It's our approach that won us respect. We've always done everything by ourselves.
We were independent for the first 10 of our 14 years together."
Billy Talent perform anthemic, fist-in-the-air rock. As musicians their technique is flawless, if not lacking in thin-pitched whines and screams.
and, equally as horrific, hipster fashion.
"There are a lot of things to be angry about, more so than disease. We have governments spiralling out of control.
We have people not being heard."
their history of high-octane performances are anything to go by, Australia.
you," Kowalewicz says.
"We can be tired and frustrated from touring, we might have had a hard day. But that evaporates as soon as we hit the first note.
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