Mike Hopkins

Tag: Punk

  • Resolve – Lagwagon

    Resolve – Lagwagon

    My first exposure to Lagwagon was on an old compilation album from Mark Hoppus’ clothing line called Atticus: Dragging the Lake that my friend Tim Packett loaned me circa 2004. Let me describe for you a little of what Mike Hopkins was like in 2004: imagine, if you will, a scrawny kid with shaggy hair…

  • Plowing Into the Fields of Love – Iceage

    Plowing Into the Fields of Love – Iceage

    Sloppy. That’s the only term I could think of as I neared the half-hour mark of Danish punk band Iceage’s third album, Plowing Into the Fields of Love. As the opening notes of “Against the Moon” started in, I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. This was going to be a really difficult project.…