Rufio
fuses hard-edged punk with pop on The Warped
Tour
By Joe Licavoli
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
Fast
and furious pop punk band Rufio leads a
musical change fusing a harder sound to
pop punk on its new album, "1985"
released by Huntington Beach based Nitro
records. The band showcased their music
at the summer punk rock carnival, The Warped
Tour, along side a slew of punk rock legends-Rancid,
Pennywise and Face to Face, which stopped
at Cal State Long Beach Friday.
Drummer
Mike Jimenez said the spot on the yearly
tour gave Rufio the chance to bring its
sound to a larger community.
"The
crowd has been really good to us and it's
been really cool," Jimenez said.
Rufio
had been playing the Warped Tour dates on
the side stage but had the opportunity in
Canada to play the main stage.
"It
was really cool, it was in Calgary, Canada,"
Jimenez said. "We had never played
there before but people hang around the
main stage all day anyway so there were
people there watching us [so] it was [a
lot] of fun."
Jimenez
said that even though there are some heavyweight
punk bands on the tour the band feels more
admiration than intimidation.
"I
just feel honored to be playing with those
bands," Jimenez said. "A lot of
us have been listening to those bands since
we were in junior high, it's just like a
dream."
Rufio
is one of the younger bands on the tour
with most of the band members in their early
20's. It might seem like other bands on
the tour would give the guys a hard time,
but Jimenez said the other bands and people
on the tour have been great.
"Everyone's
been really cool to us. We have made a lot
of good friends," Jimenez said.
The
band is on the Warped Tour supporting its
Nitro records debut, 1985, which fuses pop-friendly
hooks to its punk rock sound. This style
is a tad different than the hard punk that
Nitro records is known for releasing. However,
Jimenez said the band went with Nitro records
because that Rufio does not sound like other
bands on the label.
"I
think it's cool how we are a little bit
different than the rest of the bands,"
Jimenez said. "We didn't really want
to sign to a label where we sounded like
all the rest of the bands and [Nitro records]
has been really good to us."
The
creation of "1985" was something
that gave the band a chance to show its
different music styles, Jimenez said.
"We
just have been writing songs ever since
our last [release] came out," Jimenez
said. "We had a lot of songs that we
didn't even record. There are a lot of different
styles in it but we didn't want all the
songs to be the same, we wanted to mix it
up a little bit."
Friends
and family are supporting the band with
its new album and touring plans.
"They
have all been really supportive." Jimenez
said. "I don't know if they're lying
to us or whatever but they say they like
it. [My parents] just want me to do what
I want to do and they are really cool, they're
really supportive."
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