One Liner: Blink182-ish pop punk guy.
Wikipedia Genre: Indie rock, pop punk.Home: Cleveland
Poster Position: 15
Both Weekends.
Sunday at 1:45 at the T-Mobile Stage.
Thoughts: Okay. I kinda like some of this guy's business. Real name is Kenneth La'ron, dude is from Cleveland, and his sound immediately made me think of Blink 182. Which I was glad to hear, after lamenting the overall lack of rock and roll on the bill this year. His vocals are pretty yelpy, quite a bit like ol' Mark Hoppus. The top track right now is called "estella//" (all of his songs end with those weird double slashes, because ???), with 10.7 million streams. A lot for something that sounds like warmed over Blink!
He's apparently about to go on tour with Machine Gun Kelly (also on the ACL poster) so maybe they'll have a collaboration that people will see who go see MGK suck his way through a set.
The opening guitars sound like Yellowcard, but once the track kicks in, it's pure Blink. Oh, and that's Travis Barker in the car with him and on the drums for the track! Thus, the Blink connection, I suppose. That one absolutely makes me want to pogo around.
The top track, and apparently his first single, is "how will i rest in peace if i'm buried by a highway," which has more of a Cure vibe going on in the opening. 14.6 million streams.
No Travis Barker! That video is super shitty compared to the others here. This was made all the way back in 2020, when he was young and working on his schtick. He hadn't quite figured out how to be a Blink clone yet. "lost cause//," also from back then, also has a different sound - almost R&B like The Weeknd. He has several versions of the track. Together, about 10 million streams.
The most recent one is "hollywood sucks//" which is back to sounding like Blink. 1.2 million streams.
That chorus is great. "Hollywood sucks, can you please move your Prius, you are not fucking Jesus, he hates L.A." Ah, Travis Barker is on that one too. Why is Travis Barker always on this guy's songs? Maybe he just hired this guy to replace Hoppus in Blink but they couldn't get the name rights to?
He's apparently about to go on tour with Machine Gun Kelly (also on the ACL poster) so maybe they'll have a collaboration that people will see who go see MGK suck his way through a set.
But I'd go give this a shot. I'm not deeply in love with it, but I had fun listening to it a few times.
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