COMMENTARY
Punk bands to flood Pipeline Cafe

By Derek Paiva
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

Anti-Flag, above, are among the Mainland punk bands slated to play at this weekend's Punk on a Rock at the Pipeline Cafe. Local punkers 86 List and Extra Stout will also take the stage for afternoon performances. Punk on a Rock 4 p.m. Saturday Pipeline Cafe $15 589-1999 The schedule: Extra Stout (4:30 p.m.), 86 List (5 p.m.), Drowning Adam (5:45 p.m.), One Man Army (6:30 p.m.), Anti-Flag (7:30 p.m.), Bouncing Souls (8:30 p.m.)

But really, how could anyone calling himself or herself a connoisseur of good music pass up an opportunity to see a band with enough cutting-edge creativity and — all right, I'll say it — cojones to conjure up aliases for its lineup like Justin Sane, Pat Thetic and (my personal favorite) # 2?

That's the question you'll have to ask yourself at the water cooler Monday if you miss Anti-Flag (that's the foursome claiming # 2) or any of the other punk bands scheduled to thrash at tomorrow's third annual Punk on a Rock concert at the Pipeline Cafe. After flirting with the notion in 2001, organizers of this year's event successfully persuaded the folks at Vans Triple Crown of Surfing to sanction it as an "official event" of the winter surf fest.

Joining local bands 86 List and Extra Stout will be four punk bands all the way from the Mainland. Oooooh!

After spending an entire afternoon listening to their CDs, here are some haiku primers for each band.

Bouncing Souls

Uh, this is pop punk.

These guys were, like, here last year.

"Punk In Vegas" rawks!

Anti-Flag

Politics and punk.

U.S. taxes "fund terror ...

... terror terror," dude!

One Man Army

Green Day signed 'em up.

Wait, isn't this pop punk, too?

Punk Jimmy Eat World.

Drowning Adam

Can't hear the singer.

Who brought in the cello player?

Bring back Guttermouth!