Lines in My Face by Chronic Future

Lines in My Face, Chronic Future's third commercially released album, came out on Interscope in 2004 and briefly dragged a bunch of Scottsdale, Arizona kids into the mainstream. They'd started the band in 1995 as 14-year-olds, give or take, and they'd grown up fusing hip-hop and punk rock. This time the guitars get meaner and more metallic, and bassist Brandon Lee steps up as one of the lead voices, so the mic gets passed three ways between him, Mike Busse and guitarist Ben Collins, with Barry Collins on drums.

The songs chase odd subjects for rap rock: the golden era of radio, New York City, the friends who keep you afloat. "Time and Time Again" was the hit, sold by a mostly animated video from Ian Inaba of the Guerrilla News Network in which a rebellious boy gets shipped off to war by his parents and comes home a hero. The band left Interscope in 2006 and went independent.

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