Written by Ricky | 20 June 2010

The freshman version of Sum 41, Ontario’s own 48 Caliber just seems to get it. A glorious combination of ’nineties ska and post-Grunge rock, I expected a squad of bleach-blonde cheerleaders and their jock boyfriends to invade my home and demand that I give their music back. This is the hip high school movie soundtrack. This plays at parties. This infiltrates the gilded car stereo of the typical North American teen’s first car. This sneaks itself into the prestigious playlist of every fifteen to twenty-one-year-old’s iPod.

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Sprawled out on the basement sofas, with musical instruments by their feet, and the television station tuned to "Much Loud," are 48 Caliber. Jeff Eastman, Matt Lionetti, Ricky Lionetti, and Justin Forfar spend most of their free time underground, either writing music, jamming to music, or watching it on the big screen.
But perhaps that's not a fair interpretation of the boys. They aren't always doing something musical. Sometimes they're in gym shorts and tight tee's, snapping whimsical photos for their Myspace, and sometimes they're creating life-sized cardboard cutouts of each other (that's right, and it's pretty awesome to say the least). Nevertheless, you're guaranteed an interesting day with these four pop-rockers.

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So it seems whenever I go to local venues to catch shows, I always wind up coming home with a pocket-full of demo CDs and EPs. Sometimes I get pleasantly surprised with quality music like Rogue6 and J-CLX, other times I wind up with a free new coaster.

As I stared at the pile of EPs I've received from Toronto and Durham Region indie and baby bands, I was in the mood for something light-hearted, poppy and fun to listen to. Catching my eye was a bright duel-blue cover with spattered paint blazing the words 48 Caliber.

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