Dan O’Connor’s daughter has come down with pink eye. It’s far from an emergency, but it’s nonetheless a solid, instructive example of the kind of regular stay-at-home dad duties that dominate his life these days. “She’s bummed out about it,” he shrugs, with the nonchalant air of someone well-versed in things not running as smoothly as they could. “She was supposed to be handing out chocolates at school today, but she’ll just have to wait until next week.” When Dan isn’t carefully applying eye drops to school kids, he’s one of the singers and six-stringers in Four Year Strong. He and the rest of his band – fellow vocalist and guitarist Alan Day, bassist Joe Weiss and drummer Jake Massucco – have been grinding and hustling in the pop-punk scene ever since they were just teenagers. This ...
