When Jeff Rosenstock’s band The Arrogant Sons of Bitches broke up in 2004, instead of starting a new band he decided to record a bunch of weird songs alone on his computer and just give them away for free on the Internet. He called this project “Bomb the Music Industry.”
Articles by Aaron Carnes
The Wild Frontier
Back in the late ’80s, amidst a bubbling music scene in the South Bay, the Frontier Wives led the pack as San Jose’s greatest hope for a breakout band. What fans loved about them—the duality of playing simple, drunken rock songs and writing well-crafted, subtly complex, clever tunes—may very have been their undoing. No one, including the band members, could figure out a proper label for their music. “There was no scene or genre that we could hang our hat on and say that we were a part of,” says drummer Lex van den Berghe. “It often felt like it was us against the world. It was the Frontier Wives and everyone else.”
