Face To Face

Although some say that California punk music reached its peak in the 80’s, Face to Face’s music showed that the 90’s punk scene had a unique and exhilarating style that should not be forgotten.
Trever Keith has been the driving force behind Face to Face since the band’s beginning and remains as the band’s only original member. Face to Face undoubtedly draws influence from the hardcore punk scene that was so vibrant in the 80’s, but they also have a more accessible sound to their music. They often perform songs in a catchy and lighthearted manner that allows their audience to sing along with them in the choruses. Trever Keith often sings part of his songs in a call and response manner, where he calls out a lyric to his song, and the audience then sings it back to him.
Face to Face is highly energetic throughout their whole performance. They are head banging to their music and shouting out their lyrics at the top of their lungs. Fans are highly excited to see Face to Face perform. They run up onto the stage and then lunge into the audience to go crowd surfing. Songs like “Disconnected” clearly show Face to Face’s talented songwriting abilities. They are able to create a heavy tune that delivers an intense sound, but are still able to keep it catchy with vocal harmonies and simple chord progressions.
Face to Face play a wide variety of their songs when they perform live. They play several songs from their self-titled album such as “Blind” and even perform some cover songs by such bands as the Descendents. Face to Face have been known to participate in festivals such as Warped Tour, and frequently embark on headlining tours throughout the world. Face to Face will be sure to play an in your face type concert that will be both highly fun and exciting.

The Movielife was that kind of band that sprung up in the fertile punk landscape of the late 90s, when the kind of fast, angry music that they played was making a comeback, mixed with elements of Pop music, as first evidenced by bigger name bands like Green Day. The Movielife is still a rare treat, though. On tracks like “Hand Grenade,” with the guitar riffs going fast and furious, you can feel the energy in the crowd. The band gets off on it and just keeps going. This is the kind of band that would perform in jeans and wifebeaters, if any shirts at all. It’s not at all a rare site to find the drummer shirtless. Frontman Vinnie Caruana bounces around on stage, ricocheting back and forth with all the energy of a tennis ball. It’s the kind of energy you rarely find at concerts any more. Movielife is gone now, broken up in the early 2000s. They washed away with the last vestiges of punk rock, not popular enough to maintain a huge fanbase, and not able to slip into niche territory. The members have all gone on to form other bands, but they don’t capture the same attitude and energy of Movielife in the exact same way.