Evaluation

Fashion

 his is a brief overview of punk/pop-punk fashion.  Fashion has it's place in the punk it was seen as self expression meaning that people decide of how they dressed but how they felt and really dressed the way they want, early Punk fashion was inspired by many different groups. Rude-boys, mods and greaser.

 and many other groups inspired the early punk however as they was no set dress-coded all early punk bands looked different, this in support  the following photos which show some of the early band on the punk scene as you can see they all look different and draw influences for  different place  with each inspired by different movements that came before them while the Ramones have a greaser look, stiff littler fingers seem to dress more similarity to some rock musicians of the time these dress choices can be traced back to the the musical influences of the bands.While as i've stated punk start out with no set dress code studded-leather jackets skinny jeans and safety pin became a staple of any punks wardrobe, excess and over the top haircuts became the norm for punk but again in the 80's it underwent another evolution many adopt the skinhead look which considered of fred perry shirt's braces and doc martins but is must be mentioned not all punk adapted the skinhead look some people put it down to the fact they disagrees with the skinheads political with many being link to the national, front many punk disagree with this or simple didn't care thus keeping the punk look alive, In the nineties and the 00's it again shifted due to the rise of pop-punk. the fashion then became jeans and hoodies and brighter colours also became more present in the period.

website research

jim lockey and the solomen sun

The website for Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun has a very clinical, clean appearance due the the use of neutral colours, this clinical attitude can also be portrayed in the banner, which can be viewed add to the professional feel on the site. The site also allows easy access to social media profiles and key information about the band such as tour dates.   

frank turner

Similar to jlss , Frank turner's website has a very simple clean appearance with the colour scheme taken from his latest album "Tape Deck Heart". Similar to that of Jlss the site  allows easy access to Frank's social media profiles and key information about the Artist such as tour dates. also the website has a directly link to the site where merchandise of the artist is sold.  

Foo Fighters

Unlike the other pervious two website I  studied their is no photo on the band on the homepage for the foo fighters this could be due to the fact Foo Fighters have a a larger following the FT and Jlss and perhaps don't have to market themselves as much. however one criticism is that the site feels outdate, it missing things such as link to media , obviously it has a link to he twitter account for the band but this seems to be the only social media, also a lot the links in the banners leads to empty webpages.  



Sum 41

Similar to the website for Foo Fighters the homepage doesn't include a image of the band again this could be to do with the notoriety of the band, meaning there is less empathise on marketing the band apart for that is has everything you would expected links to social media and merchandise, one criticism I would have is that the white writing on the pale background is not aesthetically pleasing or practical,  




Green Day

Green day's website is more what I expected of websites for a  pop-punk artist it's use of vibrant colours is more of what I expected from our research, I mean in contrast to the other pop-punk bands in this post Sum-41,The Offsprings,New Found Glory,Simple plan and AAR. Also the site doesn't have many links to social media making it atypical of the other websites in two ways.   




Other websites we look at

digipak

here is our final Design for our album digipak, which we have named chemical attraction   

influences(blink 182)

Blink-182 continued the unexpected 1990s journey of pop-punk into the mainstream. The trio emerged from Southern Californian skate-punk culture with a high-energy stage show heavy with slapstick and fart jokes. But like the slightly older Green Day, closer study revealed hook-filled rock songs obsessed with breakup and loneliness, even occasionally delving into such topics as teen suicide ("Adam's Song")

The band formed in the San Diego suburbs in 1991 when guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge — who'd first picked up a guitar as a teen at church camp — met bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, who was in a garage-band in high school. Drummer Scott Raynor rounded out the trio, who originally called themselves Blink (they added the '182' when an Irish band with the same name threatened a lawsuit). With indie recordings and frequent performances at festivals and clubs, the band — whose early shows featured wet T-shirt and wet pants contests — slowly built a young, devoted following. Their fan base grew in the mid-1990s, when they toured with punk vets NOFX and Pennywise and appeared on the Vans Warped Tour.

The band attracted major label attention in 1997 with their fast-selling indie release Dude Ranch (Number 67), which went platinum on the strength of the modern-rock hit "Dammit (Growing Up)" (Number 11). Soon after, Raynor was fired from the band and replaced by Travis Barker, who had opened for Blink-182 as a member of Orange County pop-punk group the Aquabats. The band signed to MCA, which released their breakthrough album, Enema of the State (Number 9, 1999). The disc — the band's fourth — went triple platinum and spawned two hits, "All the Small Things" (Number Six pop) and "What's My Age Again" (Number Two on the Modern Rock Chart). Suddenly, Blink-182 was everywhere, from the radio to MTV to the teen comedy American Pie, in which the group made a cameo.

The band's next release was a live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (Number Eight, 2000), which yielded one moderately successful single, "Man Overboard." A year later, the trio returned to its SoCal punk-rock roots with Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. The LP took Blink-182 to the top of the album chart for the first time.

The band's 2003 self-titled LP reinforced their penchant for brooding, but also revealed stormy, more atmospheric music; even the Cure frontman Robert Smith appeared on the album. The album shot to Number Three on the pop chart and spawned four hit singles: "I Miss You," "Always," "Feeling This" and "Down." In February 2005, just when it seemed that Blink-182 couldn't get any bigger, they declared an immediate, indefinite hiatus in order to be closer with their growing families. (A Greatest Hits was released later that year.) Shortly after the band split, Hoppus and Barker formed their own group, +44, while DeLonge started alt-rock group Angels and Airwaves.

In September 19th, 2008, Barker was injured when a plane in which he was a passenger crashed outside of Columbia, South Carolina. Barker — who had performed the night before at an event with former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, Gavin DeGraw and DJ AM — suffered second and third degree burns. Hoppus and DeLonge visited Barker in the hospital, and in February 2009, the band made their first live appearance since 2005 at the Grammy Awards — and announced they were reforming.

influences(foo fighters)

The Foo Fighters emerged from the ashes of Nirvana, but the band's true roots lay in the years of personal recordings made by leader Dave Grohl. The former Nirvana drummer had played guitar and written songs since he was a Washington, D.C., teenager, while also playing drums in several hardcore bands. At 17, Grohl became the drummer for the veteran punk act Scream. In 1990 he joined Nirvana, but continued to work on his own material during breaks from the road and studio. After finishing Nirvana's Nevermind, Grohl returned to D.C. to record several tracks, which were released on the cassette-only Pocketwatch. Plans for another cassette release were shelved with Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide.

Later that year Grohl entered a studio with friend and producer Barrett Jones to record what would become the first Foo Fighters album. Grohl played all the instruments himself (with the exception of the song "X-Static," which featured guitar by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs). Though he had written and sung just one Nirvana song (the B-side "Marigold"), Grohl demonstrated a flair for pop hooks and driving guitar rock. (The name Foo Fighters came from what American World War II pilots called unidentified fireballs spotted over Germany.) Grohl signed with Capitol and formed a band in time for a 1995 tour, recruiting bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith from the freshly-broken-up Sunny Day Real Estate. Pat Smear, the former Germs guitarist who had joined Nirvana for its final tour, also joined.

Foo Fighters (Number 23) was released in 1995 and spawned the Modern Rock hits "This Is a Call," "I'll Stick Around," and "Big Me." Goldsmith quit during the making of The Colour and the Shape (Number Ten, 1997), the first Foo Fighters album recorded as a band, and was replaced by Taylor Hawkins (Alanis Morissette). The album contained the Modern Rock hits "Monkey Wrench," "My Hero," and "Everlong." Smear quit and was briefly replaced by Franz Stahl (Scream) and then Chris Shiflett (No Use for a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), solidifying the lineup to date. Grohl relocated to Virginia and recorded There Is Nothing Left to Lose (Number 10, 1999) in his basement; the album included "Learn to Fly" (Number 13, 2000).

In 2001 the group began recording its fourth album in Los Angeles, but stopped before finishing. Grohl took a break from band-leading by getting behind the drums again for Queens of the Stone Age's 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Refreshed, Grohl gathered the Foos back together and re-recorded almost the entire album at his Virginia home studio, released as One by One(Number Three, 2002). The album further consolidated the band's place as the well-loved elder statesmen of alt-rock.

In 2004, Grohl released Probot, the self-titled side project featuring a number of vocalists from heavy metal legends, among them Lemmy Kilmister (Mot örhead), Snake (Voivod), King Diamond, and Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly). Later the same year, the Foos publicly backed John Kerry's presidential campaign, an endeavor Grohl said inspired the title of In Your Honor(Number Two, 2005), a double-CD featuring an acoustic disc and an electric disc. It featured the hit "Best of You"

band bio

Car Chase City are a 4-piece band from the Belfast area founded in January 2013  Car chase are a band heavily influenced by punk-rock and it's respective sub-genres with Encore N.I  noting "Car Chase City's unique take on American styled punk rock" the review also go on to talk about the bands "infectious enthusiasm" and their "boundless energy", Car Chase city are a band with a growing reputation.