FUCK YEAH: Pints and joints all weekend.

MP3: Federation X - Rally Day
MP3: Federation X - Slave Song
MP3: Federation X - Charlie Jackie Freedom Pride

Life has been good to me, I must say. I never had the chance to see Federation X live and it seemed like they were done playing music for many years. It felt horrible. Then, recently, dates were announced and they were on the East Coast to boot. That's that coast I live on! They're in New York this weekend and I will be there on Sunday for the gig at the Cake Shop. I know a lot of our readership is in that area (thanks google analytics), so TOTALLY come out. Tweet (ugh) @fuckyeahgoteam if you want to buy us pints, myself and Giordano will both be attending and will bring our thirsts.

Federation X's remaining dates (including tonight):

Fri Feb 4 Comet Pizza and Ping Pong Washington DC
Sat Feb 5 285 Kent Ave - Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
Sun Feb 6 Cake Shop New York City, NY (that's when we'll be there)
Mon Feb 7 The Ox, Philadelphia, PA

Attend what you can! Rare opportunities! That's gonna do it for us this week, see you on Monday.

FUCK YEAH: Federation X

MP3: Federation X - Real American Kids With Real American Ids

X-Patriot certainly isn't Federation X's newest release, but it stands as my favourite. Maybe it's the perfect production work of Steve Albini's engineering or the fact that everyone in the band is mega-talented (with an insane drummer and the duel 4 string guitar work) or just the feel good spirit of the jams. Any or all of those really can be it, but all in all it's hard not to admit that this is Fed X's finest hour. It SOUNDS like everyone clicked, and the songs fly by with such swagger and dirt that it's impossible not to get caught in it's swarm, even from the first song's opening lines "I'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown!" in "Apeshit".

The song that I feel best represents this album is what I've chosen here today, "Real American Kids With Real American Ids". The guitar parts are so perfect yet carefree and the lyrics so confident and vocally delivered like you'd hope them to be. The best example for this band is if Karp was still around today, they'd sound like this.

Go pick up a classic (and then some more classics, since their whole catalogue is stellar), grab your lover or some bros, take a ride and enjoy your life. It's pretty fucking sweet if you're living with this as your soundtrack.

{buy federation x recordings from estrus}