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Dear MRR readers,

Vanessa X wrote a review in MRR #390 about
Marco Thiedes book Human Punk For Real. I
just want to add some background information
on this book, but Im not blaming Vanessa X for
anything she wrote in her review.
Marco Thiede from Bremen in Northern
Germany never played in any band nor did a
fanzine, but here in Germany hes far from being
an unknown punk. Hes one of the Punks
from Bremen, which always had an infamous
reputation among us punks in Germany.
Bremen Punks always stood for Anti-Fascist
Punks, as they founded the Anti Skinhead
League (ASL) in the early 80s. They kept
punk shows free of Nazi Skins in Bremen, but
also in numerous other towns around Bremen.
They often rented some buses and whole groups
of Bremen Punks showed up at shows all over
Northern Germany and sometimes even in
Denmark, Holland, and the UK. They truly
behaved and acted like punks, so you either
were with them or you hated them. Once you
made friends with them you always had a large
family of people you could relate to or trust in.
Studs and spikes and a whole lot of beerthats
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while thinking of Punks from Bremen. Most of
the punks turned their back on the UK82 type of
Punk during the mid 80s and chose to follow
the more Americanized way of hardcore punk,
but not the punks in Bremen! They continued
their own style. The ASL especially left a strong
impression on the whole punk scene, as they
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showed and encouraged punks in other towns to
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On one of the last pages of Marcos book
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might be a list of thank yous but nope...its a list
of 64 persons out of the Bremen-Punk scene, who
are already dead (unnatural types of death).
Therefore the book by Marco Thiede has been
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which of course might leave a sour taste due to
all the violence being reported. Marcos one of
the surviving people from the scene, which is
still very active. There are still loads of punks
in that town, loads of shows are happening and
you often meet these people all over Europe.
There also exists a group called B.O.B., which
refers to the friendship of band members and
numerous single persons from Bath, Oakland
& Bremen. They have had annual festivals

in the UK, USA and Germany. One of these
friendships led to a marriage; thats how Marco
moved to Oakland in 2012. Im happy to call
Marco a friend of mine. Well meet next year
in Bremen and Blackpool for some shows for
sure!
Helge
PLASTIC BOMB fanzine
Holy Crap !
I can t believe that MRR has such narrow
minded people in their team! Has Vanessa X
really ANY clue about Punk Rock??
How about trying to think how different
scenes are working..I totally get it if people like
my book or not, that s the way it goes with every
book and I respect that! I cant believe that she
s complaining about the terrible writing with
other words she s fucking up with my friend
BiLL Collins who s a fucking legend in the Bay
Area and an awesome writer aswell !han she
is complaining about mistakes !! That s where
I was laughiy ass off!! It s a Punk Book !! I
don t give a Fuck about fuckin mistakes ! I m
fuckin german and I don t give a shit ! Than for
whatever reason she criticized me,having a wife
which is a half of my age !
how does she now ?? I never mentioned her
age and btw she is 37 and not 25 !! Then she
s complaining about my other wifes (I was
married two times before ) If she would have
read my book,she would know ! And btw,some
are just private and don t need to be part of the
book !
But her hate list is endless..than she s giving
me shit for wearing a T shirt form Hard Skin
: Spend all day in the fuckin Pub ! Really ??
She should stop listening to Link in Park ! This
shows me that she clearly has no fuckin clue
about Punk Rock that those people are able to
write their PC Hate visoins MRR...
what her fucking problem is,to attack me
personally ! But that shows me again,that PC
Nazis are the same stupid idiots,like religious
bastards !
To bad after all these years,Maximum Rock n
Roll lost all my respect !
FOAD !
Marco
Dear Marco,
Thanks for the letter. I honestly enjoyed parts
of your book and found the story of how you got
involved in the Bremen punk scene to be really
exciting, however I couldnt read most of it
because of the way the book was formatted and
the insane amount of grammar mistakes. Like
I said in my review, the people who published
your book (Regent Press) should be ashamed to
be putting out peoples stories without editing
them. I would expect these types of mistakes in a
zine, but not a real life book.
Im also sick of the narrative in the punk
scene that we have to get loaded and piss drunk
to have a good time, which you talk about a lot
re: your Hard Skin shirt. After years of partying
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not to drink and smoke when everyone around
me is doing it and unfortunately the only thing
that has worked for me is to stop attending so
many shows, which sucks.
As for all of your marriages, you do you. I
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great copy editor and please stay punk.
Laughiy my ass off/crawling in my skin,
Vanessa X
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killer STRESS SS EP, and incorrectly stated
that Poffen from TOTALITR handles vocals.
Several people pointed out that in fact Jonas
from HERATYS and INFERNH handles
everything on this record. Apologies for the
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pick this ripper up!
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We try and be as accurate as possible with
our reviews (we do fact check!) but sometimes
things slip through the cracks cause, lets face
it, information certain records can be pretty
scarce! This record rules. Jonas, put together
a full band and come play in San Francisco
well make it up to you!
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Dear Mr. R,
From my modest perspective as an
active part of DIY for a handful of years, I
have noticed that many punks/mutants/city
rockers develop an identity based around
what they like. You know these types (and
I mean nothing negative by that), i.e. the
D-beat punk, 82 worship people, etc.
While I understand aesthetic is important to
the dynamics of punk and I fully support the
concept of displaying ones likes (or dislikes)
I also feel that these ways of dress can
correlate with a close-minded view of punk.
I have often come across some individuals
that only listen to what they deem worthy of
their image. Meaning that if something isnt
from Europe circa 1982 (or at least sounds
and looks just like it), it isnt worthy of their
time. What is your take on the self-labeling
of punks?
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love all forms of punk, I just dont pick one
subgenre to embody entirely.
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Rebellion Rock Festival 2015 was the last time I saw Dickie. He was drunk as a punkbut then he always was.
He hugged me and told me he loved me and asked whether he could get on stage to sing First Day Angry
Song with Hard Skin. Of course it wasnt a problemhe actually wrote the line Spent All Day in the Fuckin
Pub Cause Im a Cunt. Well, actually he just said it and I stole it as a lyric. So when Hard Skin play the song, all
I can see is a monster of a man trying to climb over the crash barrier and arguing with the bouncers. Its Dickie,
of course. Its comedy gold. With Dickie it always ended up as comedy gold.
I know when someone dies, no one ever says anything bad about them, but in Dickies case I dont think
they could. He was funny, infectious, generous, loyal and loving. He had a million catchphrases: Zeus, power,
sheeba, son, truncheon. If you ever spent time with him, you ended up copying them. All animals were called
sheeba, everyone he met was called son, and anyone with a good Marshall guitar sound was Truncheon.
Dickie played in nearly every band that came out of the North East in the last forty years: Angelic Upstarts and
Toy Dolls, as well as Hex, Doctor Bison, Broken Heart Orchestra, Stokoe, Fatty Jones and The Dipsomaniacs.
But its his work with Leatherface for which he will be most fondly remembered. Wat Tyler spent a lot of
the 90s touring and playing with Leatherface and my favourite memory is being in Gottingen, Germany and
telling Dickie that Rock-O-Rama Records was based in a room in the venue we were playing. Off he went,
knocking on the door ready to go mental at the Nazis. It was just another Wat Tyler wind-up but the man was
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Youll be missed by many. So raise your glass to Dickie Hammondhell be having a pint and a shot if you are
buying!
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A few issues back, MRRs own Eli Wald nailed a take on Andy Human and the Reptoids 2015 album, singling it out as a
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[ MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL RECORD REVIEW ]
ANDY HUMAN AND THE REPTOIDS - s/t LP

Is there anything that screams outsider more than outer space? On his new
album, Andy Human finds himself indicting Earths squares from a vantage
point thats far out of orbit, offering bitingly punk provocations that dust
many of his more closed-off contemporaries. While this attack was only
flirted with on 2012s Freeze, this confrontations refurbished launch comes
courtesy of The Reptoids, Humans oily mutant comrades, offering phasedout drive and synth/sax bleating in barreling fashion. Together, theyre a
slithering band apart, foil hats tilted dramatically so as to convey all of
that extra tude.
Lyrically, the record revolves around Humans prickly relationship
with all of the confused beings surrounding him. He begins the record by
prodding the populace with a knife on Blood On The Wall, yet concludes with
an adjusted rumination on his identity (Im not afraid to be the first to die
or the last to get paid) on Biffed Up. Between these bookends is a varied,
punky collection of songs that simultaneously recall the adventurous
tenants of the early 80s SF scene (strange enough for Subterranean, radioready enough for 415), DIY sci-fi eccentrics like Alien City and Simply
Saucer, and an imaginative, air-tight nether region somewhere between
Kraut Rock skronk and transgressed UK glam groove. The groin-centric buzz
of Yes I No, the further self-realization of I Got Soul and the dada callto-arms theme Reptoid Rock are all obvious bright lights.
The linchpin of the entire offering though may very well be Pictures,
which begins with a hopelessly sleazed and punctured guitar riff that
quickly gives way to a Roxy-inspired workout, conjuring an image of Reptoid
tails and tentacles flailing in unison. Its the sound of rocknroll played
without a net, possessing so many of the intangibles one would ascribe to
proto-punk, yet sounding too fresh to ever be labeled as such. Listeners able
to keep pace with Humans ahead-of-the-curve stride will be thankful he and
The Reptoids beamed this one down, space-junk crust and all. (SS Records)
Mitch Cardwell, July 2015
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Well, already in MRR, its been posited that your album is a pretty
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in a household that was pretty anti-capitalist. My parents are
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very reactionary thing against the way they were raised, but my
experience was very different from that.
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Twelve years is a long time to have a label. What is it about

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parts of the process that you enjoy?
I think the motivation is something that changes as you get older.
When I was 22 the motivation was I have to put out another record
so there is a catalogue and then after that band broke up I had this
idea that if I was helping my friends band, there needed to be a
newer record to accompany it. At that point I was still playing in a lot
of bands and going on tour. It felt important to do that because that
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thing that you want to help these bands have a record of what
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minimal amount of distribution. When I was playing in bands it felt
very much like we were all in this together.
I have gotten older and stopped going on tour, but I think a lot
of it now is that this is part of the way that I make sure that I am
still connected to what is going on. I am 35 and I am a high school
teacher. It would be very easy for me to slip into the mindset of punk
not being part of my life anymore. So now it is a very conscious
thing about making sure I am actively involved. Same thing with
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being involved and not [staying in] my little window of perspective.
Give us a little background on Salinas Records. When you

started putting out records were there labels that you looked
to for guidance or as examples?
I started Salinas in 2003 without much intention behind it. I was in a
band and my goals for the label were put out my 7 and go on tour.
Anything else beyond that would have been icing on the cake.
I was very anxious about it because I started playing in bands
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summer. Obviously we had to put this 7 out ourselves, and I was
just kind of the person in charge of doing it. I dont even remember
if there was a discussion about the name of the label, but I just put
Salinas Records and a PO Box on the back cover [so if] the tour
went well there would at least be some way to contact us. I think
around that time my friends from Detroit were also talking about
doing a 7, so I offered to help them put it out thinking that there
would be a tiny catalogue for people to order and I would get the
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sudden its twelve years later.
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in Detroit for 22 years. Its a DIY, all ages
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shows are booked by a collective that is
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that doesnt live there. We meet every two
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an important place, because until I had been
there, shows spaces in Detroit always felt
either really temporary or really businesslike. I like to look at it as a part of the radical
community in Detroit. Its a space that is not
just for punk music but other things that are
going on here.
There are a lot of records coming out of

places like Philly, New York, Boston. How
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in it but its only a quarter the combined
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that were seen as the next White Stripes/
Gories/Dirtbombs, playing garage rock stuff
that straddles that line between punk rock
and garage music. I think there is still some
of that. It doesnt sound like the Gories or
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a lot of Detroit bands, and maybe some of
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but I have never felt an absolute allegiance to
Detroit bands. I never considered being just
a Detroit label, because I think there is too
much interesting stuff worth documenting
outside of Detroit.
How long have you lived in Detroit?

What is your relationship to the city?
What keeps you there?
I have lived in and around Detroit for most
of my life, but I lived in the city in two stints:
from birth until seven and from around age
twenty-one until the present. Ive never lived
more than an hour away from Detroit. In a
weird way, for me Detroit is where my family
history is. My mothers side of the family is
very small and my fathers side of the family
history, which is very big, sort of begins in
Detroit. My grandfather was orphaned and
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where the family is from.
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their hometown, but Detroit is this really
fascinating place. Its not like the things
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happened elsewhere but it tends to be more
extreme. You have this incredible boom of
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the North due to the auto industry jobs and
war industry jobs, there is an incredible
history of racial strife, there is an incredible
amount of segregation in this city, there is
a rich history of music and art. If you want
to get the boiled down experience of living
in an American city, I think its a really
interesting place to do that. Im sure this
happens in other places, but now there is
a sense of being a quitter if you leave at
this point. Sixty-percent of the population
has already left and you dont want to join
them. If you move out you are admitting that
you couldnt hack it. Its sad but I think its
honestly one of the reasons I stay. I also
have a job I like. My family is there. My wife
is from Michigan. I also like being in a place
that I know. I have a tendency to go to the
same places when I travel so I can kind of
grasp on to that feeling of familiarity. Maybe
this is not so much a question for 055 but
for a psychiatrist.
How can you operate a label and still

work full-time?
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time that I have done the label. In terms of
the timing aspect, it helps now that I just
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nightmare [in terms of] contacting all these
people and keeping records of where stuff
might have been. I think it was getting to the
point where I would have had to stop doing
the label because at that point teaching was
more important to me than doing a record
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reaching critical mass, No Idea approached
me about doing the distribution exclusively.
I ended up doing that, so now when a
record comes out I pack some up for the
band and I pack some up for No Idea and
I do mail order through Salinas and thats
it. If it wasnt for that I probably would have
stopped.
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digital music has affected your operation
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think much about it?
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make thousands of copies of a record and
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dont want. If they would rather be really
casual about it and just have the digital
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draining from my sales.
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distribution stuff the standard was that Apple
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money from digital sales because I didnt
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Maybe that is because I didnt come from a
world where digital sales were draining from
my record sales. I started the label at the
right time for that.
What about bandcamp now? You can put
out a record that then goes on bandcamp
where people will give money to bands
and totally circumvent you
I think its cool because it means that people
can hear the record and decide if they want
to own the vinyl copy as well. I found from
talking to some of the bands that people
give the bands money for something that
they could get for free. People will just send
money directly or come to the shows and
buy the record that they already paid for on
bandcamp. Ultimately if the goal of the label
is to help the bands do their thing and have
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put it on bandcamp and give it away for free
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to it always makes me kind of suspect. Its
a small world so its going to happen a lot,
but it should be out in the open. Its one of
those things where if you know the social
circles then you understand that its kind of
inevitable. Its a small subsection of people
but if you dont acknowledge it, that is kind of
weird to me. It makes sense that it happens,
It just irks me.
So what is your process. Is there anything
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that I like. I generally ask people to put
records if I know them or if they are friends
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friend of mine and I have known you for a
long time, or you are a friend of someone I
know really well and I trust their judgment
that you are not scummy people. And
then as much as I dont want to be driven
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Not that I am particularly concerned with genres but do you call this
genre melodic punk? A lot of these bands arent strictly pop punk.
Does it really matter?
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else uses that phrase and I do think that lot of people that hear the records
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problem. I just dont use that term as often because when I hear it I think of
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the Ramones or sound like Lookout Records.
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bands have hired PR people on their own to do press for two of the recent
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its really hard to quantify how much it helped sell the actual records.
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the precedent for that and where do you think that is coming from?
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being written aboutor maybe Im glad I dont know enough aboutis how
many records total are being pressed. Sometimes I hear this complaint that
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band stand out in this huge pool of musicians that are also trying to write
songs and go on tour. Its easier to record now, so many people record their
own stuff, its easier to put your songs online now. You can be a band, do a
home recording, put your songs on bandcamp or soundcloud really quickly
so maybe its a reaction to [that]. Maybe bands feel like they need to have
some sort of help in making people pay attention to them.
Do you think thats true?
I dont know. I dont think so, but I also have not been in a band that has
toured in seven years. And I wasnt ever in a band that people gave a shit
about when we were touring. Without having been in a touring band in a
JOYRIDE! by JASON ROMERO

AMBULARS BY RAMSEY BEYER
In the description for the Salinas Ten Year Anniversary Show

someone wrote Marco has put out almost 50 records, many of which
contribute to the modern pop punk canon. Neither hyper-punk, nor
particularly slick pop, Salinas is a reliable middle ground of earnest,
gritty expression with faithfully melodic underpinnings. People think
of Salinas Records as having a sound. Do you give much thought
to that?
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who has played in a bunch of bands that I love including some bands that I
put out records for including the Gibbons and the State Lottery. He currently
plays in a band called Bonny Doon. He set up the anniversary show. Bobby
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very nice service. Bobby is fantastic. I guess that blurb is relatively accurate.
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and I dont have much interest in stuff that is really slick and overproduced.
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records that I am pressing, as long as the band goes on tour the record
wont be a complete loss. Every once in a while I am wrong. But in general
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of me.
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have to make all of its money back, but I consider if there is a legitimate
chance that it will make most of the money back. Sometimes that doesnt
work. But I have to think, Does this record have a chance to recoup the
costs?
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long time, I really feel like if you go on tour

and your music is good maybe you wont be
granted your every wish but you can do ok.
Its not that you are morally opposed to
it, but you havent bothered to turn to it.
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phrase about how they saw Salinas as a
kind of archival enterprise. I dont want it
to be just for the history shelves but I dont
have the same interest in helping a band
make tons of money. I want to help a band
make a physical record because I think its
cool and it should be on peoples shelves.
I want to help you make a physical record
because it will help you go on tour to have a
record to sell. It will help your band do those
kind of really rudimentary steps.
Once you ask a PR person to go out and
promote a record, or furthermore if you as
a band have a label hire a PR person, you
as a band are now two steps removed from
how that record is being presented and
where that record is showing up in print. Is it
next to some shitty ad for Budweiser now? I
think while you cant completely control who
likes your music or who writes about your
music, if you are actively hiring someone to
go out and promote promote promote, and
especially now if you are removing from
the band to the label to the PR agency, you
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doesnt interest me at all.

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it seems that its a replica of mainstream
music culture that labels like Geffen used.
Its using the exact same formula of these
huge companies so that if I take the bands
music and take control of it and put it in
the hands of the PR person, how is that
any different than me telling a band to sign
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whatever so I can market them a certain
way so they can be the next Nirvana or the
next Green Day. Obviously the methods
have changed a little bit over time but its
still the same we are going to hire people
to call up newspapers and email people to
tell them to buy this record. If I wanted to
do the label as a full-time job and I wanted
to sit at home and email people and contact
people, thats already a little weird because
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art. On the other hand I care a lot about
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I just want to buy somebodys access to it,
its because I want to duplicate the success
of some huge indie band. I think that is the
reality, you dont use a press agent to get
your record reviewed at 055 or Razorcake
or *LYH 0H %DFN, but you do use a press
agent to break into something else.
You said I care about these records

which I think implies that you care how
they are presented. What about people
who have a different line of logic that
goes something like because I care
about this record, I need to get it in the
New York Times?
I guess some of the reality is that I think my
friends who I have helped make records for
are doing amazing things, but I dont know
if any of them need to be written in the New
York Times. I think the New York Times
should be covering institutional racism or
something. I think they have more important
things to deal with. I dont think these records
are the most important thing on earth. So I
cant justify spending all my time shouting
from the mountaintop Hey, pick up these
records despite the fact that I think they are
great. I also dont know how much that stuff
helps. I stopped advertising in 055 and
Razorcake years ago and maybe if I had
continued to do ads I could have helped
bands sell more records, but it was never
something I was going to spend my time
and effort doing. Sometimes I operate on
the assumption that everyone buys records
the way I do which is maybe a friend told
me this record is good, or I saw this band on
tour, or its ex-members of this band I like.
I very rarely see an ad in 055 for a band
I dont know that makes me think I have
to buy that record right now. In the same
way very rarely do I read something online
about a band I didnt already care about and
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without hearing it gain some kind of interest

in that band.
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before you buy it now, I dont how much a
press agent can do by writing a fancy bio.
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that want us to book them a show and they
will write these incredibly long biographies
of their band and they will include these
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one of the other realities besides all of the
other qualms I have with the press agency
game. I know that on some level it works
but I dont know how much it works.
It doesnt work for you, but there are
probably people who arent involved
in punk who will see something on
Pitchfork and the New York Times and
listen to it. I dont know if that is good
but its happening.
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punk though. If you believe the music
within punk which is a pretty big thing
to presupposebut if you believe the
music itself is really important then there
is always that dynamic that if the message
is important then we need people to hear
that message. How do you do that without
reaching people who are outside of punk?

On the other hand I dont know if that is
always what is most important. I think its
more about creating a space where people
can feel at home and be weirdnot that
punk has the greatest history of doing that.
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fucked up and exclusionary, but I think if
a lot of people look back at how they got
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there was a sense of not having a place to
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I was thinking about. If a band is
message-oriented couldnt a mainstream
publication help? You pointed out
earlier,I think the New York Times
should write about institutional racism
but think about a band like Downtown
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about things like institutional racism. In
that case there is a motivation to want
everyone to hear these lyrics, and not
just people that already subscribe to
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its a thin line and its one that I am honestly
kind of glad that I dont have to navigate.
Ive never played in a band that is that
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band once that used to joke about being
the most ethical punk band, and the joke
of course was that of course we can hold
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true to our ethics because no one is asking

us to compromise those ethics. No one
was asking us to be in Vice. I am probably
kind of happy that I dont have to make that
call. If I was in Downtown Boys and had
to scrutinize every decision or worry about
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what is worth doing to get this conversation
beyond just people in punk? I think when
people have this conversation people
forget that people in punk dont exist within
a biosphere where they never contact the
rest of the world. One of the things that I
remind myself is that I am a high school
teacher who comes in contact with a huge
piece of institutional racism every day
and part of the way I deal with it has been
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just preaching to the choir and everybody
knows this already kind of ignores the fact
that lots of people that view themselves
as part of punk also are teachers. On the
records that are part of Salinas there are
a lot of people that are in education and
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what they hear, what is being discussed in
scenes, and on panels and they take that
out into the other parts of their world.
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Tex Fox is one of the most hardcore and heartfelt punks

Ive ever had the honor of sitting down with. Raised on
the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, Tex found punk music at
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For years Tex dedicated his time to his band Detox, a
hardcore band that created the meanest hardcore punk
and social critique in a land torn apart by a civil war
where blood was shed and over a million were forced to
leave their homes. Since Detox disbanded Tex has made
Artscape his lifeline. Artscape is a multicultural DIY
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omnipresent apathy. Tex himself puts himself out there
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I did after arriving in Hamra was water a guerrilla garden
Tex had planted in the alley next to Artscape.
Interview and introduction by Jho Hnninen.
Were here with Tex Fox from Artscape Beirut.
You wanna start by introducing yourself?
This is Tex speaking. June 20th 2015. Thirty years old. And I
have Ratface. [The dog.] Artscape is the place I guess. Im a
human being. And were doing an interview about punk rock in
Beirut. Fuck yeah.
You have a political thing going on but in the
best way. You have a space that offers people the
chance to do what they want to do. You seem really dedicated.
Thats the difference between us and everybody else. All the
talk is true.
Youre into anarchy.
I kinda identify myself with it because I never felt in place anywhere else. So my own Lebanese anarchy thing. Anarchy for
me really means taking responsibility for yourself. Be a leader
but not on other people. Be your own leader. And everybody
else should be a leader. And they should self-determine their
life. And thats very important.
And youre trying to do this for other people.
Yea, Im supporting them.
And whats music for you?
Music is just a way for me to express myself. It cannot change
the world ever. I say all the things I have in me. Thats how the
music is.Very offensive and not politically correct at all.
So about punk in Beirutyouve been around
since the beginning. You wanna tell me how punk
came to Beirut?
It was one person. Her name was Aida.
Who is Aida?
She was the singer of Detox and my ex-wife. She was around
fourteen when she brought punk here. She was different
than the rest of us who were listening to metal. It started to
spread around when she and I joined forces. I was the guy
who created the scene in Hamra. It was a cool city, a dark city,
extremely inspiring. We started to hang out there. We were a
big group. It was in 2005 that we found a huge underground
whorehouse and started hanging around there. There were
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fuck but we changed them into jamming rooms. We hung out
How many bands were there in that

scene?
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place became like a cult. When the Hamra scene
started, it was very special. It was all started by
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up in a cover scene, where bands only played
covers. So we decided that we wanted to make
something really awesome. The best thing you
could ever hear, your greatest band. We played
the shit we wanted to hear and we didnt have
around us. We werent really musicians in the
technical sense but we did our best to sound
even better than our idols. Coming from Beirut
you know youre not going to be a rockstarthe
sooner you learn that the better. But it shouldnt
discourage you from playing like one.You know,
but just not expecting anything.You channel antirocknroll music. And its better.
Then the war happened. But the gigs were
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because we just attracted trouble. We were
too extreme. But everyone was trying to make
a band, then wed just be drunk and get too
excited.
Were the two scenes in a war?
Oh, yeah. People were so jealous at the other
side of town that they banned us from playing there. We were Venom and they were Iron
Maiden. We had attitude and shit used to get
violent in mosh pits. It sadly ended in becoming
sectarian, West Beirut and East Beirut. Muslim/
Christian stupid shit.
We had a grindcore band, a war metal band, a
hardcore band, a punk band, and a thrash band.
All sounded almost exactly the same because we
were the same group of friends with the same
intensity to be the best. No poseurs were fucking allowed. That thing changed quickly with the
war with Israel in 2006. Everybody got a wake-up
call. A lot from our group became religious. The
same ones who used to piss on mosques, open a
Koran and put their dick in just for fun. We used
to fuck around with all kinds of religious stuff.
there every day, got drunk and jammed and got

musically productive. We were really young and
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was Benzene, which started at Pavilion [the
underground whorehouse] in 2005.
Every day was a fucking story. Sometimes wed
sleep there when we got really wasted. The
guy who owned it was a Kurdish ex-convict in
Germany. A drug dealer who came back and lived
underground. We were his only customers. Really
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and kick the shit out of everybody. Or we go see
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The whorehouse was your own place?
It was exclusively for us. We just had to go and
buy cheap beer from there and thats how the
place ran. As much as we drank was as much
money as he made. The more gigs we had the

more money he made. So the owner was really
supportive of our chaos.
How old were you then?
I was 20.
Aida, what was her role in this?
What can I sayShe is very charismatic and
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beating up people with brass knuckles. She found
that thing in herself and brought it outside,
something that didnt exist. Im talking about the
DIY philosophy and the image, the balls and the
music. But the punk scene failed. People havent
made new punk bands or anything. But the
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a lifestyle didnt happen here. And Im trying to
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Do you know why they got into Islam?

Just got back to their old lives?
I have no idea. Identity crisis, depression? One
extreme to another? Life on earth? Sometimes
you cant get too involved in the shit. [After the
war started] the whole group split apart. And everybody started changing. The whole scene was
dying. Died actually. Except for a couple of gigs in
2007 when I formed the Gamblers, a Motrheadish band. We always played originals since the beginning, never covers. That was our basic problem
with the rest of the countrys scene.
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got a gig in Turkey to play with Oi Polloi. Instead
we went to prison for smoking hash, missing the
gig. Chain reaction life decisions took me and
Aida to Denmark to freeze for a year and half.
Then we came back and within one year released
three killer albums and played two live gigs
before we got screwed by our drummer Panda,
who gave the excuse of wanting to accomplish
more in his life than playing with Detox and
working as a shisha waiter.
What does the scene mean to you?

I always believed in community. And thats obvious. Since the beginning, thats what weve been
trying to do. Because if I didnt Id just focus on
my stuff and not on the whole thing. My music
does have a message. It really does, and the lyrics
really prove it. The place here also proves it. I
want everybody to save their own souls by being
productive, you know. I have so much love at the
same time as I have hate. I forgave everybody. I
just think about the future. Im trying to build
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are here! I want to bring good bands here too.
A lot of people have a lot to give but they just
need somebody to tell them that they can do it.
Organize something or you know
You feel like its working?
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as from yourself.Youll always be proud.
Were you angry as an adolescent? Are
you still angry?
When youre younger you cannot hide it like
you can when you grow older. But yeah, I was
much more stubborn than now. When you learn
from life you understand you need to be patient.
Because we wanted everything to happen our
way very fast. And we were fucking right, you
know, but you have to know how to be patient
with things and with peoples support. Thats the
whole story. It was very disappointing to me to
see everyone betraying what we were building,
one band member at a time.
Before or after the war?
After the war.
Its kinda different when I see you
listen to Antisects Tortured and
Abused when youve been through
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injustice and violence. I mean you
probably know what the song is about
more than the person who wrote it.
Thats why we are the way we are, because we
can relate to it too much. And when we make it
we make it even better. And of course we relate
to it. We are really surprised when we go to
shows and stuff and see everything behind the
curtain. Its disappointing sometimes to see the
punkswhen we thought they were activists and
stuff like that.
You see this in Europe?
Yeah, Europe. Thats why for the last four years I
havent been listening to punk. Ive been listening
to Frank Zappa. I saw more punk in his music
than punk.
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The mirror of society. He is every one of us. Just
doing the shit we wanna do. And the ugly people.
The ugliness of him is the ugliness of people.
And the craziness is like very one of us. How we
feel towards other people. And yeah, he is hated.
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interesting. I can relate to that. The songs were a
projection of the society. Its like when you have

a band. What you listen to is different than what
you create. What is coming out is only you.
The projection is a small part of you.
Yeah.
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Right now Im listening to Sacrilege, a thrash
crust band from the UK.
How many are you into the idea of
having a punk scene in Beirut at the
moment?
If you do a punk gig a lot of people go. Doesnt
mean they are punks. But yeahI mean, if I play
a gig people will come, you know, I guess we can
call ourselves punks but Im paying rent and have
to make it. We are productive, we save animals,
we steal to eat, were content and we believe in
struggle.
Its important for you to have a movement.
Its the only way for survival on the personal
level at least.
Are there other music scenes in Beirut?
There is electronic. And it took all the metalheads with it. They just do drugs and act so
spiritual and shit, its like the hippies all over
again, except the music sucks and the drugs ruin
lives. Ecstasy killed the anarchy.
Whats the last gig you attended in
Beirut?
Ziad Rahbani, an Arabic folk musician known for
his sarcasm on society.
Whats the last punk gig you went to?
Lebanon hasnt had a punk gig since April
2012the last Detox gig.
Are there any new bands coming
along?
Im forming a band with the third generation. The
band is called DIY. Were planning on playing in
the old whorehouse that everything started in
ten years ago.
You were talking about the second and
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Yeah. [The second] generation were very
unproductiveonly one band came out of it,
Thrashstorm, who are still playing a couple of
shows a year.
We are just getting started. We are much more
mature. We dont care about the lifestyle. I mean
what you look like. The shit is gonna get serious
now. We are gonna do what all the punk bands
preach about but in like real life. This time we are
fucking sober from drugs and this time we have
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learned to trust people. So now everything really
happens.
What are your ideas? How realistic it
to see the punk scene growing?
I dont see it as much in bands or music. But as a

country or a movement, weve always been more
punk than in other places, man. Beirut is total
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you get to the point where its beyond anarchy.
Its like, there was anarchy and the war, lets say.
The anarchists sold out and they became malicious people and corrupt leaders. A vicious cycle.
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something for other people so they can build on.
And thats always been the struggle. But this time
its for real. Because we just have nothing to lose
anymore.
So youre expecting to grow as a
movement?
Yeah. Time is on our side now. Our next project
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on Animal Rescue Operations with a private land
and volunteers. Where there is ignorance there
is fun.
Whats the future of Artscape?
To close down.
Why?
Theres too much energy in this place and there
will be a time when good things end. But it will
be a start for another thing, which will be even
closer to the truth of really fucking making a
difference and a change. If I close down today I
still have the contacts of all the people and I can
just organize stuff on the street. I dont need to
worry about the rent or the fucking yoga classes.
I can dedicate all my time to activism and making
music. And then I will be more free. For everybody to see. Ill be out there.
To contact Tex write to his PO Box at
Astral Agricultural 113 6086 Beirut
Lebanon. If its just for saying hello,
facebook him at Tex Fox. See youtube.
com/detoxlb for more information on
Detox.
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TOUR
DIARY

8/31:
Tacoma,
Washington
@
733
Arts
with
Vexx,
Binge,
Criminal
Code,
Bind

we
set
up

Idaho
show
was
insane!
Feral
House
was
small
but
comfortable
and

ime.
I
love

of
all
t
st
band
s
the
be

TRAP
i
t.
TWAT

sun
se
hile
the
utside
w
merch
o

so
much

merch
and
cabs
and
people
ahhh.

Grill
with
the
Deacons
and
Blindside
USA

was
losing
it
and
screaming
to
do
an
encore
and

the
room.
I
found
this
hilarious
but
of
course
some

legal
fund

ton
before
our
set
and
twice
as
much
after
so
we
donated
$100
to
a
pals

Chicago!

which
sold
a
slice
of
cheese
for
$4???
I

tens

Mar

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hee

nch
i
-
four

new

got

I

HINA
Weird
vibes
for
sure.
COC
t.

wes
Mid
the

politeness
in

This
place
has
the
best
guitar
stores
I
have

9/13:
Bloomington,
Indiana
@
Kroger

Castle

police,

spectrum
of
privilege.
Fuck
the

all.

them

I
hate

much.

shing

considering
200
people
were
sma

I
feel
nostalgic
for
places
I
cant
remember

the
point
of
unbearable
discomfort.

awesome
femme
ladies
who
evened
out
the

wildass

a

was
e

ther

and
w

sho
the

r

afte

so
we
are
prepped
for
defensive

aggression.

It
is
beautiful
here
and
the
air
is
a
familiar

that
was
one
of
the
best

and
huge
men
push-moshing
girls
to
the
bars
but
air
conditioning
and
pool
tables

9/17:
Crossing
the
Border
Driving
through
Canada
listening
to
Neil

most
things
I
listen
to
but
no
complaints.

dancing
in
the
crowd.
Afterward
I
danced

home.

moments
in
this
hellworld
and
how
I
want
a

Canadian
vibes
but
still
a
good
time
with

Road

become
the
norm.
All
the
long
drives
and

moon
and
thought
about
the
universal
sense

again.

show
from
Vancouver
and
I
saw
Tessa
and

can
be
a
powerful
protection.

Found
a
music
store
about
to
close
down

having
the
time
of
her
life.
Ive
started
to

friends
at
shows.
I
spend
a
lot
of
time
in
the

so
I
made
Tannrr
give
a
speech
before
our

What
else
is
new?

Gas
Station
Girls

this
place.

love
and
uncompromising
toughness
and

refusal
to
move
over
for
the
men
who
want

to
dominate
their
scene
/
lives.

Austin
was
so
fun!
Met
a
friend
named
Juan
Carlos

most
things

a
great
time!
Met
a
great
man
named
Ross

who
was
selling
bootleg
buttons
and
our

found
a
silicon
breast
thing
on
the

ssive
to
a
girl
Tannr
had

was
being
ultra-aggre

this
tour
for
rush-ordering
us
records
and

huge
venue
that
felt

favorite
record.

o

him
let
go.
I
have
n
not
sure
when
Ill
see
her
again
which

ou

y

al,
do
you
know
where
This
is
South
Centr
tour
is
over.
I
cant
believe
Ive
been

are?
new
guitars.

live
in
it.

with
Litter
Brain
and
Chicharra
G.L.O.S.S.
is
a
band
from
Olympia

Washington.
They
have
a
new

7
on
the
way.
Hear
their
music

at
girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.

bandcamp.com
and
see
them
if

you
ever
have
the
chance.

food.
And
hot
air
balloons!
S e v e re
. s
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+
S.
P
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+
A venue la id to rest
The Toronto Hardcore Punk Scene announces with

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MRR: Which of your releases are you

most proud of?
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brutal. I like it all. Ringing Ears is the most mental. New
stuff is heavier.
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records are a by-product.
MRR: What do you make of the recent

UK election result? Is UKIP on the rise?
Are we doomed under a now solely
Tory government? Will there be an
even further lurch to the right? Do you
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coalition will be noticed now or not? Is
there any room for more progressive
parties to make headway in the future?
Volunteers are the doyens of East Anglian hardcore scene, a band that thrashed many a young
punk out of their sugar-coated, Fat Wreck bullshit-core malaise over a decade ago.Theyre still going
strong, releasing records and having a great time doing so. Genuine legends in the region, I was sure
they mustve been interviewed in MRR before but they told me not so I had to remedy this injustice!
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lynchpins Sam (drums) and Jay (vocals).
Interview and introduction by Jimmy Shitbeans.

Photos courtesy of the band.
MRR: So what can you tell us about Volunteers? How long have
you been together? Who does what in the band? Why do you
seem to have one guitarist at some gigs and another at other gigs
(and sometimes both!)?
SAM:Volunteers have been together for about twelve years now. Currently we have become
a kind of co-operative of different bass players and guitar players who we call upon when
were offered a gig. Most of the members play in other bands too so cant always do stuff.
This is working out really well and makes it a lot of fun...we just recruited an old bass player
James as Towel has moved to Leedsso theres always the possibility we could have two
guitarists and two bass players at future gigs!
JAY: I get pissed up and everyone else drives me about!
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to big business corporations. The population seem to
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they dont realize it? British people are essentially an
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with the Tories back in. In the long run as far as I can
see all humans will be losers however much cash they
got in the bank.
JAY: I think that folk need to work on their pineal glands.
The media did a great job of convincing hard working
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end up staying in but with a stronger anti-European
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MRR: Some of you are involved Hardcore Upraw, putting on great sweaty
gigs in a small rehearsal space. How did
that come about? How long have you
been doing it?
SAM: Me and Jay decided to put gigs on years ago as a
way of supporting other hardcore bands we knew and
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brands and work with them as much as possible.
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it turned them on to a world of underground music. Its
things like that that keep me doing what Im doing.
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from time to time. If I wasnt comfortable doing what Im
doing Id be doing something else for sure!
MRR: You have a song on the Haiku

Fucks compilation 7 called Straight
Edge Kids Make Me Wanna Binge
Drink. Whats behind that?
MRR: Sam, you used to play in John Peel favourites,

Jacobs Mouse. Any good memories from those days?
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that stopped us being more successfulstill Im proud we stuck to our
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MRR: Whats the punk/hardcore/DIY

scene like in East Anglia? Who/what
should people check out if theyre new
to the area or just want to know more
about whats going on there?
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get a feel for whats happening and where.
MRR: Jay, you run Hardcore Hobbies in Bury St Edmunds. How would you describe that? An extreme
sports shop? Im not that sporty so I have no idea!
How long has that been going? Do you think there is
any crossover or similarity between being involved in
punk and running your own business or do you think
the two things are completely contradictory? I see
youre stocking records and CDs now. Why have you
started doing that? Hows it going?
MRR: Youve been around for some

years now and Ive met East Anglian
punks in their twenties and early thirties for whom Volunteers were a genuinely pivotal band who opened up their
minds to harder sounds than the Green
Day/Offspring kind of stuff that had introduced them to this thing called punk
why do you think youre held in such
esteem by these people? How do you
feel about that?
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the TV is not really a true representation of what a majority of skaters/riders aspire to and its more about having fun with friends. The store enables
SAM: I think its lovely we are held in such high esteem.

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embraced philosophies like Taoism I see less of a need
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MRR: How do you think the UK punk/hardcore scene

compares to other countries like the U.S., Japan etc.?
Mainland Europe even
to how I dress. This is a personal thing and I think its
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want to projectyouve got to be yourselfwhat I love
about punk is historically you had a wide range of different
looking people and no one judges each other. This is what
hardcore is about to me. I think in East Anglia the scene is
great because its not cliquey like some hardcore scenes
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MRR: Have you done much touring? Tell

us about the East Anglian Hardcore
Tour.
SAM: We have done a bit of touring over the yearsits
bloody hard work to sort them out- but always great fun
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two long weekends and it would have been lovely for it
to be longer!
JAY: We should do Europe!
MRR: At least three of you play in other

bands besides Volunteers. Can you tell us
a bit about those bands, what theyre up
to and what they have planned?
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year ago and do some new tunes and that. Its different
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a 90s style post-hardcore noise punk band. Weve done
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on vinyl releases later this year. Ive also started twatting
about with a synth-punk solo thing called Italian Books...
hope to do this live as soon as Ive got the tunes together.
MRR: For the uninitiated, what would

you say Volunteers sound like? What
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MRR: OK, so whats next for Volunteers? Will there

be a new album anytime soon? Any tours coming up?
Anything else we should know about?
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is such a loose set-up now we rarely get to rehearse before a gig let alone
write new stuff!
JAY: I call a band meeting!
If you want to contact Volunteers drop Sam an email

at samlmarsh2@yahoo.co.uk. Look out for Volunteers on tour with the Domestics in mainland Europe
at the start of May 2016.
Room 101 is a one-man punk-rock pipe

bomb designed and performed by Roburt
Reynolds. The set is only 17 minutes, where
he strangles a guitar, screams and howls over
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horror and social commentary. Originally from
Chicago but now living, teaching high school
full-time, and performing in New Orleans, Roburt recently put on an all-ages DIY show with
Downtown Boys, locals PantyWasted and Special Interest.
tention, understandably so, like: What the fuck is

wrong with that guy?! Nonetheless, you have to
have a strong work ethic to make things happen
and thats part of the larger picture. If were not in
charge of these things and making them happen
in ways that challenge the status quo to threatening degrees, then they will continue to just absorb
into the status quo. If were not challenging that
absorption, then it is totally possible that art, music and performance can just masturbatorily exist
with no real form of progressive value, even if that
progressive value is as simple as having actual
fun, without monetary compensation or recognition.
Armed with closed-toed shoes, headphones, and our trusty sling, my infant daughter and I round the corner of Poland St. in the
Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. Kidfriendly the poster exclaimed, though Im now
positive this was a call to the under-21 set as
opposed to the infant crowd. The night is thick;
the air like a pool of heat and we, the hopeful,
swim out in the dark hoping for a bit of magic.
Looking around now, the overlapping scenes are

visible. There are homemade hot plates for sale,
chicken and sides. Theres a mother manning the
hot grill on the sidewalk, expertly preparing chargrilled oysters to rival the Quarter tourist traps
while managing the brood of children who follow
behind her. I drink a $1 PBR just outside the entrance, as I feed my infant daughter; we are both
desperate to stay cool in the late July heat. Young
people of varying ages run around the space
and at random, chasing each other. Adolescent,
neighborhood girls sell two-color, screen printed
posters of the event that they made at New Orleans Community Print Shop, a DIY center for
locals.
Roburt greets me at the door, excitedly. His

welcoming smile is in stark contrast to his everconsidering, rebellious mind lurking beneath
the surface. Hes nervous about the visuals; he
didnt want to overwhelm the baby. Its comments like these that reveal another of Roburts
contradictions: radical knowledge cant be
forced. The masses cant be led to the truth
water; rather, they must be thirsty and seek refuge.
We wander the space, surveying the scene.
New Orleans is like no other place on earth.
Roburt conceived Room 101 in many iterations and many cities before, but something
about New Orleans makes it different. He has
touched on this in our talks.
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vibe quickly because of its general aesthetic.
New Orleans has an interestingly fragmented
set of scenes for how small it is in population.
Some of the scenes do overlap, though. Some
nights, the only shows happening are at bars,
places that are established and cater to a general sound or expectation. There are some big
touring acts that overcharge, at the House of
Blues level. There are also generator shows
here in abandoned strip malls, a possible show
under an industrial bridge or off down a levee
on other nights. There are house party shows,
impromptu practice space shows that go out
by text only, within two hours of show time.
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to throw divisive walls between things that have
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mixing and mingling on a corner, all with a little
something to offer the other. This is DIY: born
from what you have, what you can carry with you,
what you can take when you leave.
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performance he gives.
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performers before him received, between songs
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ing witness. As if stuck in Room 101 themselves, downloading

information and rattling their brains into a new understanding. Exterminate adults! he screams, the childlike nature of
his message hitting me hard and as the 17-minute doctrine
unfolds, the world is brand-new to those who are partaking.
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you miss what Im up to, and who knows what that may be!
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the music over me down to the second, so with the epilepsy
laser-light in my eye, in the hot seat onstage, feeling the music pumping through my body when its loud enough, its absolute real-deal transcendentalism. Ive searched for that shit
half my life.
Exiting the space, we pass Hollise, an awesome personality, happy and wide-eyed, the frontman for New Orleans Fat
Stupid Ugly People. The audience tonight is far more diverse
than many regular local shows. The crowd easily blurs lines
between masculine and feminine, but is unshakably white.
Im reminded of my talks with Roburt. I questioned the appreciation and possibilities for resonance of a DIY punk scene
in The Chocolate City. Hopefully, I wondered aloud if young
people more familiar with hip hop and trap rap might get
the one man band concept.
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all you have to propel your trajectory, wherever it is leading.
Both of these art forms stole my attention and obsession before I was ten, thats for sure, though. Hip-hop culture has a
huge connection to punk music on a cultural upstart level in
American societal history and I personally know lots of punks
who secretly (and not-so-secretly) love hip-hop and rap music of all eras! Be not ashamed! Both were started by people
who were in some form or fashion on the outskirts of American
popular acceptance and were fed up with status quo norms
as expressed through antiquated formats (albeit under different forms and norms of necessity and accessibility). Both have
had social movements that have operated as DIY level upstarts in community spaces throughout their entire histories,
at their purer times without the help of the industry. Both are
descendants of American Blues, soul, jazz, poetry, indigenous
rites, and both have been considered alive and dead, depending on whom you ask throughout their entire histories. Both
have been co-opted tremendously by corporate hegemony.
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will vehemently disagree. But the conversation has already started!
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to steal electricity to put on shows, the same way that Kool Hercs
Sound System parties in South Bronx parks did in the mid 1970s.
Roburt thanks us on the way out, telling baby girl, You were my
favorite attendee. We leave to the dulcet tones of a melodic tune,
and the true impact of Room 101 is felt. Roburt eschews that which
he (we) have been taught: about Santa Claus, about democracy,
about our ancestors. But this evolution, this graduation to true understanding comes with having once been duped. I consider the
responsibility of us all, of the enlightened, to liberate the minds of
the misguided. In Roburts words, Those who have lost hope in
the kids have forgotten what it was like to be a kid and would do
well to volunteer somewhere; do something to help pull young
people up. Its so rad and rewarding to help young people. Dont
forget that kids started rocknroll and punk and even younger
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Or just do us all a favor and fucking die. If youre not willing to
help a kid but youre willing to complain and then complain some
more about them and how theyre not yougo die. Dig a hole and
fucking stand in it and wait. Your casket is already sealed.
Punk music is a simple, yet poignant questioning of all that we
know and all weve been taught. Its an expression of a desire to
understand whats real, true, and tangible in the world. Its a rejection of all unessential things. Punk is for young black boys in
Central City who think banging is their only way out. Punk is for
people whove never thought of it. Punk is for toddlers, falling
off bikes, eating dirt, and pushing playmates. Roburt says, Its so
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Specious Species #7
Joe Donohoe
282 pages | $8
speciouspecies.net
The zine so huge it reads like a book, Specious
Species, has favored us with this, the seventh
issue. The theme, California, is so broad no
one publication or even bookshelf could do
it justice. Still, the regional focus is because
I think there is something to place and its
a resistance to the world wide web concept
where everywhere in anywhere. Editor and main contributor Joe
Donohoe casts a wide net. Literary stars of the twentieth century receive
the most attention, but the nearly-300 pages allow for a wide variety of
history and some relevant fiction.
The largest piece by far is the fifty-page (!) biography of Oaklands
Jack London. To be fair, he packed a lot of living into forty years.
Before he was a famous writer, he tried working, but didnt take to it. It
was worse then, and in general its no prize now. He tried his hand at
oyster pirating, and, using the boating skills hed picked up in the Bay,
prospecting in the Alaskan Gold Rush. Its exciting history like this,
skillfully told, which makes me excited for this zine. The oyster beds
were owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, and ripping them off was
as dangerous and violent as running meth is now. Most everyone who
made money in the Alaskan gold rush were the people selling supplies
way the fuck up in the bush (like Donald Trumps grandpa), not the
guys with the pan in the river. London made it back alive, and his ability
to turn these experiences into narratives people would pay for made
all the difference in his life. Donohoe is quite familiar with Londons
writing, and engages with critical perspectives. To his detractors,
much of Londons work is a paean to white supremacy and American
imperialism. Donohoe finds places where this is true, but also wonders
how his fiction could be so popular around the world if its just hyping
white people and the US. Drinking like hell has much to do with his
early death. There are many instances when Im more interested in an
artists biography than their work, and thats the case here.
This is also true regarding the interview with Marin County poet
Gerald Nicosia. Perhaps in some circles hes known for his own work,
but much of this talk concerns Nicosias biographical subject, Jack
Kerouac. Personally, Im not much for fiction and dont care about Beat
literature. Nicosia, a great admirer of Kerouacs writing (innovative in
style and content, he says) dishes the dirt on the man and his circle.
Kerouac was a shit to anyone unfortunate enough to marry him. He
ditched out on the first wife when she wouldnt get an abortion, then
told people it wasnt his kid, when he knew it was. He wed a second
time so the bride would care for his dying mother. At least her family
ended up with his vast estate.
A more uplifting story is a lesser-known figure on the outskirts of the
scene, Eddie Balchowsky. He lost his arm fighting fascists in the Spanish
Civil War, and returned home strung out on morphine. In Chicago he
got busted and did five years. Nicosia says the law in Illinois forbade
felons from displaying their artwork in galleries (?), so Balchowsky

hung his paintings in alleys, and became known for his piano playing.
Nicosia contrasts Balchowsky and other poets of the time with writers
who cashed in on Beat notoriety. He says their commercial success was
inversely proportional to the artistic merit of the work. Beat became
something to market fancy leather jackets with. While I appreciated
these sentiments, some too-typical older-guy style is apparent when
he discusses a successful North Beach nightclub operator, Lu Anne
Henderson. To him, her real claim to fame wasnt her own business
and hard work, but having fucked some Beat guys as a teenager.
Berkeley orthodontic osteopath Rhoney Stanley alludes to a similar
dynamic in discussing her long relationship with superstar LSD
chemist Owlsey Bear Stanley. Upon first meeting the young Rhoney,
Owsley introduced himself by grabbing her breast and saying Youre
foxy. Ms. Stanley comments on the gender dynamics in her subsequent
scene, the Grateful Dead Family. The Beat women were even more
subjugated than the hippy women. While there is talk of hanging out
with legendary hippies, I was more interested in which drugs are good.
Donohoe, being a nurse with experience in prisons, homeless shelters,
and psychiatric facilities, is able to keep up with Stanleys discussion of
drug properties. She further emphasizes the criminality (in the moral,
not legal, sense) of major pharmaceutical producers.
Staying in the late 60s and into the 70s, Donohoe interviews Emory
Douglas, an early member of the Black Panther Party. He was largely
responsible for the graphic design of the Party newspaper, skills he
picked up at City College of San Francisco. He had a hand in every
edition they published, almost 400. He shares insight as to the early
days and ways of the Panthers, even the origin of the Panther symbol
taken from Southern high school sports teams! Douglas stayed with
the Party until its official demise in 1980, but continues making radical
artwork to this day. [A]t the core, he says, institutions are run with
the same racist mentality as the Sixties.
My strongest disagreements reading Specious Species came during
the interview with author David Talbot, who wrote Season of the Witch,
a history of San Franciscos wild and violent period spanning the mid1960s to the mid-80s. Talbot does a good job of illustrating the tensions
that existed in the city before the hippie invasion of the mid 60s. The
murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in
their offices at City Hall in 1978 were seen as the apex of a disastrous
era. Barely a week before, a formerly-local preacher, Jim Jones, led nine
hundred people to their death in Jonestown, Guyana. Many of the dead
had relocated directly from the Bay Area. While Moscone and Milk are
seen as liberal martyrs for progress, generally forgotten is how Moscone
owed his election to voter fraud perpetrated by Jones, and that the three
were close political allies. Talbot and Donohoe get at a more honest
assessment, in which Jones is an intergral part of the triumvirate. I
didnt finish Season of the Witch, cause when somebody starts saying
something nice about Diane Feinstein, Im out, and the book ends with
her as a hero who holds the city together. Fuck that and fuck her. Talbot
says he does subscribe to a lot of the left-wing critique [of her rule]
not only as mayor but as Senator [a post she currently holds]She was
part of the process by which San Francisco has become very difficult to
live in if youre not well off. (Emory Douglas, the former Black Panther
graphic artist, says the only reason hes still in San Francisco is because
his mom bought the house he lives in.) Talbot emphasizes Feinsteins
policies as mayor around the devastating AIDS crisis, which were ahead
of the rest of the country. (That is to say, not explicitly murderous.)
Another vile pig is Bill Graham. Talbot says Graham believed music
is essential to life, and lived this dream with his shows at the Fillmore
and Winterland. Talbot allows that Graham was megalomaniacal and
greedy, and a complete asshole in many ways. But, he claims, Graham
had a huge heart, and was a tough parent figure, but he provided
tough love too. Donohoe recognizes from his time in the punk scene
that punks hated Grahambut Im open-minded enough to see what
he did rightviolence was absent or kept to a minimum. This is all
bullshit. Grahams love of music never stopped him from calling the
fire marshal to shut down any show, however small, that might compete
with his. He had total contempt for anyone attending his venues, be
they punk, hippie or otherwise. His bouncers were notorious, not for
their huge hearts or tough love, but for beating the ass of anyone who
didnt move fast enough when they said. People go to shows to get
away from tough parent figure[s]. At my bookstore job, whenever his
autobiography comes in, I make sure to draw a helicopter crashing into
high-tension wires inside, to celebrate his death. Penelope Houston is
interviewed separately, and shes asked about playing Winterland with
the Sex Pistols. She seems kind of sick of talking about it, and it wasnt
a high point of the issue.
Southern California freaks and success stories get some attention
too. I really enjoyed San Diego Satyricon, a memoir-style piece by
Erick Matthews. It mostly concerns scoring and doing drugs in the 70s
and 80s. Like Rhoney Stanley, he says acid was cool and speed fucked
up the scene. The opening line is I fuckin [sic] hated growing up in
San Diego The tale closes with Matthews sitting in a nearly-empty
apartment, waiting to move away when his buddy comes by, asking
to use the phone to round up a murderous posse. Even more desolate
is Trans-corp: Out of California, by Michael Glynn, the story of his
forty-hour van ride in the hands of a private prisoner transportation
service. The food and the company are pretty grim. He feels like hes
being released when hes let out at the prison in Yuma, Arizona! And the
freakiest success story of them all may be Jack Parsons. An only child,
wealthy and spoiled, as a teenage science nerd he and his friend are
into rockets. It being the 1930s, rocketry is a hobby, considered without
potential by mainstream scientists. Living in Pasadena, its easy enough
for them to head over to Throp Polytechnic Institute. Throp was the
humble beginnings from which the science giant Caltech would grow.
Self-taught but a genius, Parsons soon is part of the Suicide Squad,
whose technical ability gave rise to the modern American aerospace
industry. Some squad members were able to channel their interest into
lucrative gigs. Parsons, however, had no formal education in science,
and wasnt able to fit in with a bureaucracy. Left to his own means, he
scrambled to make money. He kept busy, though, indulging his spiritual
side at a local branch of Aleister Crowleys Ordo Templi Orientis. A
profligate spender, Crowley was desperate to cash in on greater Los
Angeles money spiritual seekers, as he knew others had already done.
A big party with sex and drugs will make most any cult seem better,
and this was part of the Crowley lifestyle. Parsons was soon running
his own temple. Future Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard became
a member, before leaving with Parsons wife and nearly all his money.
Parsons kept his cult membership separate from his daily life, until the
day he dropped a tub of serious shit in his garage, blowing it to hell and
ending his life. Parsons story is another extended biographical sketch
expertly presented by Donohue. I envy his ability to retain and organize
material.
Theres so much I havent mentionedAlan Kaufman on sobriety;

a transcript of a spoken word piece by Kathy Acker from June, 1979;
the Niles Silent Film Museum in Fremont, where Chaplins classic The
Tramp was shot; the only town in America built entirely with Chinese
capital, Locke, CA; the Church of St John Coltrane; Ron Turner of Last
Gasp, a venerable publisher and distributor of various underground
weirdness (SS: Theres a rumor that you once smoked a joint with
Lee Harvey Oswald in Texas. Is that true? RT: Thats not true. It was in
Monterey.); Bay Area road trips, and hell of other stuff. I try and get
every issue; the quality and quantity is there. Yes, there are points here
and there worthy of calling out, and the frequently-used oral history
interview format is limited by the vagaries of memory, but verall I feel
Specious Species is a great value for the price.
Jeff Mason
My Life, My Body
Marge Piercy
112 pages | $12
PM Press
pmpress.org.
If youre a fan of feminist speculative/
science fiction writers such as Margaret
Atwood, Octavia Butler, or Ursula K. Le
Guin chances are youve heard of Marge
Piercy. She jokingly (I sense a tad bitterly)
refers to herself as a midlist writer who
has never enjoyed the same success as her
peers despite releasing a number of novels
and books of poetry. My Life, My Body is
her new collection of poetry and essays reflecting on what drives her to
make art and the significance of her legacy as an artists and activist.
Piercy is at her best when talking about the role of artist in society
and her own passion for writing. Theres a beautiful essay about how
systemic censorship can lead writers to mentally censor their work in
its infant stages. And that stale, bland (Vanilla Pudding is Piercys
term) prose is getting in the way of the real stuff, because as she notes
wryly, The muse is rarely polite. Piercy isnt pulling any punches
here eitherin one essay she goes after bestselling ciswhitestraightboy
writers who have a sort of balloon quality...you know that they may
never actually sit alone in a room agonizing and working as hard as
it takes to do good work ever again, and we know exactly what she
means.
Unfortunately, when shes not reflecting on literature, Piercys writing
starts to fall apart. Many of the essays have the feel of unedited rants or,
even worse, dated lamentations about the good ol days when you could
get $70 rent and great weed, man. My house was built for $25,000 by a
bunch of stoned hippies, she brags multiple times in her plea for an offthe-grid movement. Piercy tries to tackle a bunch of issues she clearly
cares about: gentrification, homelessness, voting, and war. But for every
one of those I can think of someone else who does it better, and at
the end of the day Id much rather hear Sarah Schulmans reflections
on gentrification or watch the film Born in Flames for an example of
feminist utopia. If youre already a fan of hers Id pick this up but if not,
Women on the Edge of Time would be a much better introduction.
Arielle Burgdorf
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It is always annoying when a documentary has no music nor interviews
with its subject. It happens too often. One would think Id somewhat
be used to it by now. Ghost On The Highway: A Portrait Of Jeffrey
Lee Pierce & Gun Club has that problem. It also starts out with two
ex-Gun Club members Terry Graham and Ward Dotson who still have a
chip on their shoulders regarding their association with Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
Graham and Dotson are being interviewed on LA radio station Indie
103 and immediately the discussion goes to wanting to hit Pierce. All
this straightaway negativity only makes me get defensive. Without that
connection to Pierce no one would be interviewing either of them. Thats
not a good way to start out a film.
As Ghost On The Highway: A Portrait Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce &
Gun Club continues, more friends are incorporated and present a more
complete story. Jeffrey Lee Pierce was a flamboyant Los Angeles teen who
was president of the Blondie fan club. He collected records, read a lot of
books and played music. He was talented, but he was also a pain in the
ass.
Gun Club formed when Pierce teaches Kid Congo Powers (amusingly
the president of the West Coast Ramones fan club) how to play guitar.
They were joined by bassist Don Snowden and drummer Brad Dunning.
After playing one show as the Cyclones with singer Pleasant Gehman, the
Gun Club is born with Pierce on vocals. The line-up plays some raucous
shows around LA before the rhythm section leaves and is replaced by the
Bags rhythm section. Then Powers was asked to join the Cramps.
The Gun Clubs line up changes many more times during Pierces life.
Ghost On The Highway: A Portrait Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Gun Club
follows the trajectory of the band throughout them all. The constant is
Pierce who infuriates as well as impresses everyone with whom he comes
in contact. Although many former bandmates and friends are interviewed
I am surprised there is no interview footage with Pierce himself. Surely,
he must have done some interviews while he was around. There is some
footage of on-stage banter, but no songs.
The mystery of the Gun Clubs music does add an element to Ghost
On The Highway: A Portrait Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Gun Club. The
story is interesting enough to inspire viewers to seek out the records. The
documentary is streaming for free online. (gunclobdoc.com)
As a bit of contrast I also watched Quiet Riot: Well Now Youre Here,
Theres No Way Back. I was interested in the juxtaposition with the Gun
Club since both bands were from LA in the 80s. Although both bands
started out playing clubs to small audiences, had singers with delusions
of grandeur and made an impression on their respective scenes, the
Quiet Riot story just doesnt have the intrigue of the Gun Club. There is
drinking, drugging and debauchery on both sides, but Quiet Riots biggest
hit was a cover of a Slade song, Cum On Feel the Noize. They just pale
in comparison.
The funniest thing to me about Quiet Riot: Well Now Youre Here,
Theres No Way Back was listening to musicians complain that in the late
70s no one liked metal. All the labels were signing punk and new wave
bands. I have heard over and over how punk was a reaction to overblown
70s rock. Yet, 80s hair metal bands complaining about punk is a new
viewpoint. I dont buy that labels werent interested in metal. Van Halen
were already on the scene. I had to hear that shit all the time when I was
a kid.
Quiet Riot: Well Now Youre Here, Theres No Way Back is not
a straightforward music documentary. It covers the basic history of the
band. The rise and fall. However I was somewhat flabbergasted when
thirty minutes into the film it is announced that singer Kevin Dubrow
died. Especially when the counter on the screener showed an hour and
fifteen minutes of film remaining. What was going on?
Dubrow died in 2007 after many incarnations, break-ups and make-ups
of Quiet Riot. The documentary brushes on the band in the 90s and 00s
when they are playing county fairs and nostalgia bills. Drummer Frankie
Banali who was good friends with Dubrow stopped playing music after
his death. Three years later Banali decides to reform the band. Then the
whole thing flips. Quiet Riot: Well Now Youre Here, Theres No Way
Back starts to tell the story of getting the band back together. It is painful
and depressing to watch. At least Banali is up front about his reasons. He
wants to pay tribute to his friend, but he needs the money.
The majority of Quiet Riot: Well Now Youre Here, Theres No
Way Back becomes the Frankie Banali story. It should be noted that the
film was directed by Banalis fiance Regina Russell. Banali and the other
band members audition singers. Banali is disappointed that no one sounds
exactly like Dubrow. When they finally settle on Mark Huff, who has a
good voice, Banali is disgusted to discover he does not act like a rock
star. Banalis attempt to recreate his life in the 80s begins to get really
pathetic.
When Huff continually fucks up Quiet Riots big hit I couldnt help but
laugh. I am not against reunion bands per se, but stop taking it so seriously.
If it isnt fun why do it? Of course, that trainwreck atmosphere kept me
watching Quiet Riot: Well Now Youre Here, Theres No Way Back
until the end. (quietriotmovie.com)
Speaking of gratuitous things, theres I Need A Dodge: Joe Strummer
On The Run. The basis of this documentary is an interview Joe Strummer
did in 1997 on Spanish Radio. He was in Spain in 1985 and bought a
Spanish-made Dodge car. When he suddenly had to leave in January of
1986 due to his daughter being born he left the car in a parking garage.
Eleven years later he wants it back.
In 1985 Joe Strummer went to Spain to get away from the final break
up of The Clash. He met the band 091 in Granada. They were going to
record their debut album and Strummer went along to the studio to help
them. The majority of I Need A Dodge: Joe Strummer On The Run
is the members of 091 recalling meeting Strummer and what happened
while he was in Spain. It somewhat interesting, yet superfluous. Someone
is grasping at straws with this. Also at the end the director Nick Hall goes
looking for Strummers car, apparently in 2015.
The packaging for the I Need A Dodge: Joe Strummer On The Run
DVD is pretty nice. Along with the DVD there is a cassette containing the
interview from 1997. It is cute listening to Strummer try to speak Spanish.
There is also a postcard, a million dollar bill with Strummers face on it
and an insert with more of the story of Strummer in Spain. Even so I Need
A Dodge: Joe Strummer On The Run is for fans only. (cadizmusic.com)
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Keddy, Maximum Rocknroll, PO Box 460760, San Francisco, CA 94146.
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natural new world. The guitarist Graham elements grind over each other, refusing to
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metal and a uniquely clean and excellently
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produced sound. The chords are bleak and
the pace is an engaging gallop with enBABY SHAKES Starry Eyes LP
raged precision. The vocals are powerful
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power pop and its rocknroll. Sure, its all not this advanced. The high-contrast sleeve
that, and more. If you like infectious power depicts skeletons, of course, but this troupe
pop that is mid-tempo and perfectly deliv- de morte from Les Diableries is strangely
ered, then youre in for a treat. Dave? Daves uncomfortable to look at. (JR)
just the drummer in a band otherwise com- +DUYHVW.LQJ
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women. If Daves name werent on the back BASTARDO FOUR Alt & Schnell 10
of the record sleeve, youd never know he
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for two things: theres a beautiful old motor(Lil Chewy)
cycle on the cover (think its a BSA?) and the
singer has the craziest spitting, slobbering
BALLADUR Plage Noire, Plage Hogans Heroes German singing voice. ReBlanche LP
ally. Its like being detained in a Nazi prisIf nothing else, I would celebrate BAL- RQHURIURFNQUROOFDPSIRUPLQXWHV0XLADUR for writing a song that dead-on sically, its pretty standard fast-rocking punk
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LWVDOOWKHUHRQ:KRVWR%ODPH7KDQN- be heard to be believed. It will leave you feelfully, this song is not the only bright spot. ing all icky and unclean. Prost! (RO)
Its not often that I come across a record (self-released)
BLACK ABBA Betting on Death/

Civilized
Sick submerged sounding basement rattle
with creepy keyboards, charred guitars, and
to die for bratty female vocals that will collectively pummel out what remains of your mind!
I have been looking forward to this 45 all year
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relentlessly, and this two song blaster has rearranged my hopes and dreams Though I
think their newest tape on Holotrash is my
favorite release of theirs, this is a rager of a 45
and fans of feral punk should pay attention.
Sounds like a band off an imagined Blood
Stains Across Louisiana jumped a Bomp!
group and created this wild stew. Thumbs up,
deaths got my money. (LG)
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BLACK PANTIES The Future EP
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neg-vibing all the way to the bank, shitting
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one meager skid-mark thrasher. No duds,
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on almost anyone. This guy loves em so
much he made them his nom de plume. Think
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boyyyyz). This record starts out fuzzed to
eleven and tuned down down down. A madman spewing atop joyous noise not unlike
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your deep dark desires. Suck it. (RO)
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THE BRISTLES Last Days of
Capitalism LP
Swedish hardcore legends return! BlazLQJDQGPXIHGWKLVPRQVWURXVVODEGHOLYers escalating and seemingly psychotic Dbeat punk. Slightly spoken word but mostly
insane hardcore, this more anthemic sound
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the BRISTLES played as the backing band for FABIENNE DELSOUL. This is a fantastic example of
their capabilities as a political punk band and force for
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Really cool and interesting group, true atmospheric

art-punk with dark impulses that will also appeal to
fans of the current gothwave trend that has consumed
punk. No chorus pedal apparent! I really like this. It
gets better the more you listen. (LG)
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Time
Punks and synths have had a fractious relationship
from that start. Now, in 2015, people arent so worked
up about it, but the results are still a little hit or miss.
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project of Bobby Hussy of garage-popsters the HUS6< +HUH %REE\ SUHVHQWV WZR PLQLPDOO\ SURGXFHG
tunes, with sparse mid-tempo drum machine beats,
droning bass keys providing structure, and minimal
melodic lines that follow the vocals. This kind of keyboard music frustrates me to no end while boring me
to tears. Bobbys brought out something like a cleaned
up, less catchy version of songs JAPANTHER were
writing circa Master of Pigeons. Perhaps its the feeling that I get that these were written on a guitar (or
at least with the subliminal mentality that they would
be played on a guitar), but neither track grabbed my
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whatever wave is punk. Its not damaged, experimental, aggressive, angsty or exuberant. What you have is
some very basic, very boring keyboard pop. (LP)
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CHUMP CHANGE / INFRA ED & JASON

POTBELLY split EP
This is a pretty damn weird record. I usually mean
that as a compliment, but this time its not one. INFRA ED does his best attempt at doom, complete with
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a pretty amazingly bad operatic metal thing. Both had
a less than memorable mid 80s sound. Flip it over and
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split EP
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Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! and songs with
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this, but I think they need to smoke more weed. This but is ultimately disposable. I did like their earlier
feels more like music teachers getting weird and ma- LP, though. CHRON TURBINE is also ex-screamo
thy on the weekends, rather than real life jazz wor- and delivers a far-better instrumental track that conshipping freakazoid insaniacs with fucked up time VLVWVRIDVLQJOHVKXILQJULIIZLWKDVXEVHTXHQWVRUWD
signature tattoos. Listening to this made me immedi- mismatched sorta-not riff randomly thrown on top and
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thanks for that. (DZ)
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LE CHEMIN DE LA HONTE LP
Nervous, desperate art punk from Paris, and yet another classic from Danger Records who seem to only
put out records that merit purchasing instantly. Dark,
desolate sounds with Lilys cool-but-tough chanteuse
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doomed and propulsive, has a mechanical feel, the
endless post-industrial landscapes of post-punk, but
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doomed sounds of GREG SAGE with added synth
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playing that whole time? Wow. Fifteen years between
albums is a bit of a wait, but it is nice to see that they
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rock and roll with a macho who-gives-a-fuck attitude.
Its rough and haggard with just enough charm to
make it fun. Plus I like that they have a song called
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CICUTOXIN / PIGEON HUNT split LP
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prog-core. Its like they take all those really sick fast
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that, but they do it way faster and way more pissed
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some of the riffs are pretty tired. If you are
a huge fan of pure doom metal you might
want to check them out; everyone else get
this one for the PIGEON HUNT side. (BA)
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With four LPs worth of jagged art punk in
half as many years, its semi-shocking that
CUNTZ havent suffered any diminishing
powers. Theres still a dangerous oomph to
their bile-burping that knocks you back on
your heels, but the difference here is that Im
writhing rather than convulsing. Its gotta be
the tunes: Force the Zone has better-crafted
songs than their other collections. Plus the
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DEAD BOD Like Wow EP
What we have here is some raw ass garage punk fromsomewhere. No one lets
you know where their band is from anymore. I like that the packaging is straight-up
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never know that the music contained within
is packed with vitality, energy and hooks for
days. The singer has a slight nasally drawl
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shitty attitude. Get it! (GH)
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DEMOCRACY split EP
Allegedly, this record was recorded and
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kid in Philadelphia got the tracks from both
bands and used his parents credit card to
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them). He was at school when the records
were delivered to his house, but his parents
were home and signed for the records, hid
them in the garage and told the kid they had
sent the records back. Fast forward thirty
years to 2015 and this same kid is moving
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the garage and now hes selling them to all
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all of the songs are previously unreleased.
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unnerving sense of persecution, the intensity and intent of the bass and drums and
the malice in the riff and vocals making for
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Damaged Goods
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board take the lead. It has as much bite as this realitys thinly cast shadow that DIT
the original, but an odder sound that makes balance forces and align energies to create
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something truly powerful and positive. (LA)
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This half-Australian half-German Berlinbased quartet has had an interesting run.
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setting up the basic structure of their aesthetic and sound, with Positive Energy they are
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purple hue that colors both the album cover
and booklet, theres a consistently glum tone
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houses, painting pictures, get the job done
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Bleak revelations from the dairy aisle. The
guitars work eloquently together, like a wellrehearsed choreography, the dynamic bass
lines rumbling underneath everything like
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vocals, a scorching guitar solo leading up to
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DIDISDEAD / NO BUSINESS split EP

Debut for two! And both bands from
Oakland, no less. Twould appear that
while Im sleeping in a decadent comfort
each night, folks like DIDISDEAD and NO
BUSINESS are engaging in all manner of
degenerate punk tomfoolery. Bless em, as
they complement each other perfectly here.
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detectable in each band, but the snot crust
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side. I dont wish swift death upon DIDISDEAD either, though I was looking at my
watch (and I dont even own a watch) during
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continue in the same garage-y vein, though
they become almost swampy and a bit more
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DISTRBIA CLADIS Disforia EP
Damn! This one is so sick! These fuckers
just rip through some extra fucking raw Dbeat crust. No frills at all, just totally genuine
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or early DISCHARGE. Featuring male and
female vocalists who are both harsh and badass as fuck. If you like raging and furious
music you will love this one. I couldnt recommend it more. (BA)
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2015 D.O.A. with a RANCID-esque pseudo-reggae
song on it. If that doesnt tell you that this record
doesnt need to exist and that you dont need to own
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sloganeering choruses are especially cringe-inducing,
and better suited for voice acting some cartoon villain
than a punk record. Im certainly glad my name isnt
in the liner notes as a donor. (DG)
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These no-nonsense Philly punx drop four tracks of
solid D-beat hardcore thats well worth your attention.
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of the early DISFEAR material than DISCHARGE
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the banger here, with the anger and outrage palpable
through both the lyrics and delivery. A nice silkscreened
sleeve and atypical art for this kind of release only elevate the whole package. Good stuff! (AU)
(Ryvolte)
E.A.T.E.R. Projectiles For The People CD
Its not really fair to compare this release to their
classic outputbut then again, why the fukk not? So
I did that, I blasted this and then I blasted Doomsday Troopsand this new collection of E.A.T.E.R.
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still up for the task. Thin production puts you on edge
and theres a subtly more metallic approach than you
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together. Both have up-tempo songs, sing-along choruses, and a melancholy, anthemic vibethe sound
of celebrating despair. Or despair celebrating? HOL,'$< XVHV D IHZ YRFDOLVWV WUDGLQJ RII EHWZHHQ WKH
full-throated rough-voiced guy and the guy who actually sings, though in a narrow range. They love the big
woah-oh-ohs behind the chorus. The lyrics, about loss
and hopeless alienation, are depressing. EPIC PROB/(0LVVLPLODUWKRXJKFDWFKLHUDQGWLJKWHUZLWKRQO\
one burly singer. They remind me of DILLINGER 4,
especially on the breakdowns. Theyre the more accomplished of the two, and should go over big with
the Razorcake FURZG +2/,'$<V DOO ULJKW EXW ,OO
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EVERYDAY THINGS All Day//All Night EP
Heres some strummy and very catchy Canadian
power pop with some nice guitar parts and organ.
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are also on the border of early punk but still mostly
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EX FRIENDS / FLAG OF DEMOCRACY split EP
There arent many bands around that have been going for over 30 years. Even fewer that can still put out
a decent release in 2015. Long-running Pennsylvania
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kick off this EP with three short, very fast, snotty poppunk songs that sound like they could have been recorded by a much younger band. Where do they get
the energy? EX FRIENDS are similarly poppy but
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EXHAUSTION Phased Out EP

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with dance remixes on the B-side always psych me
out. Im down to bridge styles, but whos really at the
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Grinning Spirits EP
Is that what people do when theyre done reviewing
Blasting right out of the gate, the A-side here is a for Maximum? That said, the two tracks on the Afull throttle hardcore burner with a killer double bass side form a compelling single in their own right. EXGUXP027g5+($'VW\OHEUHDNGRZQ7KHLSLVD +$867,21VUVWWZR/3VZHUHLQFUHGLEO\FUDIWHG
(only slightly) more restrained version of the same, no soundtracks to a night drive of severe anxiety backed
frills anywhere near either side of this record, and also with steady drumming, guitars peeling stucco off disno attempt to be cool or with the times in any way. tant houses, woozy bass lines, modern rock negativity
These blokes just want to play fast and furious hardcore for graveyard shift couriers and call center workers.
punk, a style of music I happen to enjoy quite a lot. (WN) Those were slow-burners; appropriately enough, the
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songs here are a little more circuitous and self-con-
tained. Drums on the title track of this EP

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and speeds up in tempo, a deranged mind
game only this bunch of twisted Australians
would pull. Not appropriate for chillout
rooms anywhere. (EW)
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FACTION Pegged For Live 1985 LP
Wow! Sorry, I am just surprised. A FAC7,21 /3 D OLYH UHFRUGLQJ IURP QR
less!) is fucking killer. Cant say Ive spun
the FACTION in ten years, mainly because
most skate rock is essentially just super
overrated derivative scenester shite. But this
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reminds me of early TSOL and the 80s
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guitar solos get kinda metal and annoying,
but the scrappy live recording quality makes
you feel like youre watching the greatest
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of some noodle-y studio schlock. That said,
I cant deal with two sides of this at once
Ill save the second half for later! White
wax! (GB)
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FLAG OF DEMOCRACY / MERDA
split EP
Phillys longest-running punk band
(maybe longest-running band period!)
blitzed MRR this month with a ton of releases. Havent heard the rest of them, but
the four tracks on this split are great! Equal
parts snotty poppy punk and stop-start hardcore, all executed with style and precision.
Its long been a truism around the MRR
compound that F.O.D. are a criminally underrated band and this new stuff only reinforces that belief. From the SCREECHING
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goofy for its own good, but the rest of the
side is funny, scrappy pop punk thats quite
enjoyable. The raw recording provides a bit
of bite that livens up the songs considerably.
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ers Ive seen and a much more interesting

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punker elements of the REGISTRATORS
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This is way harsh but not blown-out,
I feel like Ive seen this bands name which is not an easy feat. The guitar stays at
15,0000 times on The List. (Remember that? a thin metallic scrape and feedback pops up
Its still exists but I guess youve been too in rhythmic places but the bass and drums
busy getting invites to shows from Face- keep it almost normal. The vocals come out
barf.) This Bay Area bands been around as thin screeches and the entire thing feels
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Its a mix of TURBONEGRO and a shitload keeps moving in shambles, limping along
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50s style ballad. Other times they remind EHWWHU00
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with metal. And as much as I would be into
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that idea, FUTURE HATE just doesnt deThis band has a killer abrasive early 80s liver. Atonal EXENE-style vocals lack bite,
style hardcore sound with a nice raw, buzz- and the constant heavy chug of the guitar
saw guitar tone and snotty, barked vocals and relentless metal drums seem out of
to match that have a detached and lethargic place. This straight-up borders on modern
feeling. The actual songs are hit or miss, GD\0(7$//,&$&5
with a couple being mid-paced, one being (self-released)
PRUHFUHHS\FUDZO\DQGWKHQDORQHKDYing a pogo tempo, but the riffs are meh, and GERIATRIC UNIT S.O.T.O EP
the downer energy doesnt work in its favor. 2OGIDVWDQGORXGWKH\FODLP<RXFRXOG
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recording. I didnt think the songs were reFRANTIC STUFFS Last Wave LP
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but Ive been known to say that anything bass-led buildup to the best thrash on the
with a grim reaper on the cover wins points UHFRUGZLWKVXSHUWLJKWULIQJ,I\RXOOJHW
with me. Well, I should have included a dis- a record for one great song, this is a safe
claimer that a reaper combined with creepy pick-up. The lyrics dwell on the singers
jester people in horrible puke-inducing pas- VWUXJJOHV ZLWK $VSHUJLF TXDOLWLHV ZKLFK
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the guitar parts are too predictable, the drums are too Singer Jess Paps veers from a sometimes-monotone
straightforward and it lacks the hooks. After a couple drawl into a desperate, caterwauling wail that conveys
listens to the A-side, I was ready to write it off. Luck- the bleakness of some of the lyrics. Speaking of bleak,
ily, the B-side saves the record. The song isnt drasti- $PDQGD%HUU\LVDERXWWKHZRPDQRIWKHVDPHQDPH
cally different from the two on the other side but its a who escaped from her assaulter/captor in 2013 after
little more pop, a little more musically interesting. It ten years of imprisoned abuse in Cleveland, Ohio. This
has hooks, it has a catchy bass line, and there is more makes the album sound like its a downer, but its not. It
going on with the vocals. What Im getting at is that it QGVWKHOLWWOHELWRIOLJKWLQWKHGDUNQHVVDQGVWUXJJOHV
sounds like more of a complete song. Its worth giving to hold on before everything fades away. (GH)
it a listen. (PA)
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GROWWING PAINS I Always Know EP
A haunting ambient intro track gives way to a very
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or Philly? Who the fuck knows, because theres ab- crust on this 2013 release from HERIDA PROFUNsolutely zero information on this record besides song DA, a band based in Poland with one member who
titles. This is pretty good, sugar-laced dude pop. I OLYHVLQWKH8.6RPHRIWKLVHVSHFLDOO\WKHEDVVDOGLGQWFDWFKWKLVWKHUVWWLPHDURXQGEXWDIWHUDIHZ PRVWVRXQGVOLNHDPDVKXSRIYDULRXVVUDGLRKDUG
listens, Im hearing a tip of the hat, if not a super basic rock styles, and theres a lightly math-y feel to some
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theirs anytime. This isnt punk or anything, but its a classic death metal bellow and manic weirdo shriekpretty great. (DZ)
ing, while the lyrics cover a familiar but inexhaustible
9RODU
stock of topics like anti-racism, anti-fascism, animal
rights, and, yes, pride in ones crew. This is a solid
GRUMP Flatline EP
enough record for its style, but theres not much here
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all over the place, but is quite interesting, if not easily digested. The recording and vocals have a scuzzy, HOLIDAY Missiles on the Roof EP
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English pop punk with thoughtful commentary on
crossover or proto-crust, along with a bass thats pret- politics and society. This is the nicer side of pop punk,
ty high in the mix. The guitar tone is thick, mangled, UDWKHU WKDQ WKH DQQR\LQJ RU FUXVW\ NLQGV ,P WKH
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HARMONICA LEWINSKY Naked Brunch EP
Four tracks of organ-driven garage rock. The HOUND Out of Space LP
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Super huge sounding heavy/doomy rock (but not
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vibe. Also the name is terrible, but on the positive know, I know its the second time I referred to them in
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trio makes some great riffs that are resonant
as hell. Theres also a not-super obvious ode
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track four, oddly enough). The rest of the LP
continues to be pretty solideven when it
seems like its gonna lose my interest, they
pull off some great guitar tone and basslines
and more gargantuan riffs. Dont forget the
ace photo of the guitarist/singer Perry Shall
looking like Cliff Burton sporting a Stiff Records shirt. (JD)
(SRA)
BONES HOWELL Big Heart In a
Small World/Maya Angelou CD
This is a two-song CD single from a New
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CARROLL. Witty lyrics add to the charm
here. Decent. (RL)
(self-released)
HUE BLANCS JOYLESS ONES
Stoning Josephine LP
Transcendent. I could listen to this on the
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evokes that melancholic fury you feel on the
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ideal, that lonesome, romantic windswept
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somewhere. Bison rock. Sad music for geniuses. Jazz for cretins. Greatest band. (BB)
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HUMAN BODIES MMXII-MMXIV CD
This one is some very scary Norwegian
black metal from New England. These
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grim, but the cold reverbed vocals get a bit
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sounds like a cold transmission from a demons torture chamber. Im into it. (BA)
(Caligari)
HUMAN RACE I Cant Wait/Human
Race
WEIRDOS meets Beach Boulevard-style
punky from Rome, very catchy and relentless and classic sounding, but I think if I
wanted to listen to a modern take on this era
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dad rock revival style. Something is missing; its catchy but after the record stops the
songs are gone instantly. I can imagine fans
of the STITCHES digging this and I advise
you to check it out if at all intrigued. (LG)
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is a friend of mine, but this is pretty fucking

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This sounds really raw and fun, and Jamies
signature vocals kill it as always. I remember
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PEST BAND, and I was kinda shocked at
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how good it was, considering I thought their
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Side Heather. This ones got two tracks. Both its a sure sign that Id like them to jump off
are catchy and straightforward and feature of a cliff, but these guys have really crafted
vocals which are pretty without being sicken- some perfectly dreamy, hook laden rock
ingly sweet. Side B is equally as catchy and here. Totally fucking smooth. Play this shit
a little less straightforward and a little more all day long (DZ)
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me in that they are constantly evolving and
tweaking their sound, if only just a little bit. KEEPERS Blas EP
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from San Diego. Their calling card is this
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INSTIGATORS Phoenix CD
swinging garage rock with slack-jawed,
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from the other side of the pond, particularly THE KNEW Scmew LP
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lodic hardcore sound (of sorts) was grafted off successfully? Shockingly, the answer
RQWRWKHPRUHW\SLFDO%ULWVW\OLQJVRID8. appears to be yes. Even after all these
SUBS or RUTS, and well, this is what you terrible, cringe inducing ideas, I have to
got. PhoenixLVWKHLUVHFRQG/3WKHUVWZLWK admit that this album does sound like it was
an almost new lineup (minus the original ZULWWHQ E\ ORYHUV RI URFN RSHUDV 48((1
guitarist), and its a change in musical di- 7+,1/,==<DQGGR]HQVRIRWKHULQWULFDWH
rection leaning more to the aforementioned solo heavy rock. I dont think Id sing their
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XPOZEZ, who provided the always-energet- vocals oddly remind me of the not Pat Smear
ic new frontman for the INSTIGATORS, nor GXGHLQ'($7+)2/.:HLUGHQRXJKWREH
Tezs vocal stylings. And mentioning that I reviewed in these here pages, but its still
never thought that they bettered the genius of kinda just rock. (DZ)
their original debut demo tape probably just (Greater Than)
makes me sound like an obscurest ponce. But
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The CD includes the original album plus a NORB AND THE ONIONS split LP
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of goofy garage punk with former shitworker
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PEST BAND split EP
If you live underneath a rock, youve couple of covers for the kids. The ONIONS
are one of the tighter and punker Rev. Norb
probably still seen and heard one of Jamie
combos and remind me of the WEIRDOS
Barriers seventeen million other bands,
on a couple songs. Always a hoot liveand
most notably PINE HILL HAINTS and the
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admit that technically Im biased, as Jamie
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for you brother. Carry on. (RO)
(self-released)
all the rage in recent yearsno complaints here!but

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in exploring a different side of 80s revivalism, hanging out in the same shadows that once gave us the misLAWSUIT MODELS Dudeman EP
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The A-side is straight pop punk that is very close to Dead Air Studio fame handles guitar and vocal duties
being radio rock. It sounds like they are trying to get and also recorded this, and as usual the tone and atRQHRIWKRVHPDMRUODEHOFRQWUDFWVLQ,WVSUHWW\ mosphere is completely spot-on, the platonic ideal of
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of The Boss though). The B-side is also an up-tempo
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pop-punk tune but a little more rough and aggressive
(Framework)
with vocals that are slightly gruff, slightly snotty. Its a
bit overdone with the guitar octaves and the part where
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Ace outing from this CUTE LEPERS and CLOnot bad but then again, not memorable. (PA)
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(Snappy Little Numbers)
glam punk that sounds like a gazillion bucks, though
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much more my speed: choppy punk with a borderline
Better Move
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but this immediately made me think of that band. Its FRQWULEXWHKHUH0&
poppy and punk and just as catchy as can be. Its also (No Front Teeth)
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6<1',&$7(6HULRXVO\WKHOHDGJXLWDULQWKH$VLGH LOS MIERDA Punk Basurilla EP
track is going to be in my head all day. I guarantee it.
Rough (and probably drunk) punk sung in Spanish,
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theyre located somewhere in Germany. Nothing re(Windian)
ally stands out to me here musically; pretty standard
fare. Without the snotty vocalist Id be ready to just
LENTIC WATERS The Path LP
write it off, but he adds the edge that an otherwise
A massive take on modern Euro-style screamo/
generic sound needs in order to come off as energetic.
hardcore, LENTIC WATERS achieve a nice balance
,IFODVVLF6SDQLVKSXQNOLNH(6.25%872DQG6,1,of heaviness and tenderness across their newest LP,
ESTRO TOTAL is your main jam, youll probably
integrating a wide range of moods and tones into a
seamless whole. This band certainly knows how to do QGVRPHWKLQJZRUWKZKLOHLQWKLV0$
pretty, and their slower and foggier post-rock and post- (Basurilla)
metal tendencies will probably make or break this for
most punks. Those lilting builds and swirling guitar
leads can be misleading, though, eventually giving
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as a incredibly mature realization of their elegant,
sprawling vision. (WB)
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MIDNIGHT RERUNS Force of Nurture LP

It would be a leap to call this a punk record. In fact
it probably shouldnt be reviewed in this magazine.
Not because its bad or anything, but it just bears an
undeniable resemblance to the majority of stuff youd
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this might still be your thing. Do you like the TOAD,(6"&$.("(9(5&/($5",I\RXVDLG\HVWR
all three, you will genuinely enjoy this album. Who
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LONGINGS LP
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sound nothing like this band or each other comes a
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punk. LONGINGS play punchy, guitar-driven bleak
punk with a killer sense of melody and a nice dual
vocal exchange, and every song on here is a fucking
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MOLEDEBATER The Only Punx in Town LP

If you were to pass up this band from Brandon,
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sense (to me) and cover art featuring a badly drawn
dinosaur holding a bottle of glue, well.youd be
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about wage drudgery, the desperation of small town
life, getting hit by cars while riding your fucking bike,
the end of the world, freezing your ass off in the snow
and much, much more. The sound is riding the wave
somewhere between hardcore and catchy

punk with full-on screaming vocals at all
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your song when its only 35 seconds long,
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If that shit interests you, go ahead and jump
on this one because they only pressed 100
copies. (GH)
(self-released)
MUCOPUS La Scatola CD
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80s ZHQDOO\JXUHGRXWKRZWRSOD\DQG
slowed it down a bit to make the shit more
powerful tradition. A few catchy riffs, but
they have the most success when they beat
the shit out of a simple three note banger
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with just enough frills to keep it interesting.
$PLGVDFW08&2386VWDUWHGVTXLUPing again a few years back and dropped this
disc in our laps earlier this year. Welcome
back. (WN)
(self-released)
NECROPHILIA Mentalna Pustinja
LP
NE! Records has given the serious archiYDOWUHDWPHQWWRWKHDUJXDEO\UVWKDUGFRUH
EDQGWREHIRUPHGLQ6HUELDIRUPHUO\<Xgoslavia). Looking at the photos in the huge
booklet, its hard to imagine what it could
possibly be like to be a punk in the postTito netherworld Belgrade had to offer in
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some hollow slogan thrown around in some
punker than thou pissing contest. This is
some very raw, angry as fuck music without
even the slightest whiff of pretense. As with
many bands from the region there is a dark
melodic undercurrent within the bass lines.
A friend once attributed this to the fact that
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from the west that extensively toured behind
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NITE SCHOOL Pleaser EP
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like a live set one-two punch to the thorax.
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bands with serious sounding names playing being that OUTREAU probably listened
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EXWWKHQWKDWVKLWJRWSDVVpIRUHPRDQGEXE- ADICTS. What sets this band apart is that
blegum shite, so hearing this now is like a they rely on the same dirty aesthetic as their
breath of fresh air. Sounds like a HC demo that French contemporaries in RIXEthe
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type shit, like how SLAPSHOT was the an- them, Italian shoes, and the Daniel Craig
tithesis to all the crew/unity nonsense that James BondOPV0:
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of framing straightedge as a positive choice,
the songs seem to chastise those who have PARTY ANIMAL LP
left it, or those that have never embraced
Oh, I get it. This is like a hardcore conit (Fake band, fake man / Change col- cept album. Or something. Im impressed
ors, try to hide; Once felt strong, we that they somehow got that insane canned
had our friends / Over my shoulder, am I guitar distorto bass sound like NEANDERwhats left?). Its a great record because THAL or Slap-a-Ham shit or whatever. But
its stripped down and uncompromising in they also have like twenty songs on a LP,
its content, and musically it forgoes unnec- which is prolly cool if they are your friends
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tion and structure-wise, take any A-side an old guy like me I am literally exhausted.
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found a lost track from the Only The Strong (3IRUPDWZLWKRXWWKHVDPSOHGKLSKRS
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enthusiasm shows. The lyrics threw me off, though.
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theyre getting at, but it sounds like some Fox News
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celona two-piece resides in the camp of the more
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ing into a booklet with lyrical content and artwork,
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a little too palatable. (WN)
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POINT BLANK No More EP
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because of geographic locale because the vibe on this 88/Voodoo Boots
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kids to soccer practice, ice cream in winter, and whis- probably have you running away in terror before you
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to other acts that try such endeavors in this Xeroxed
modern age. Its so cool hearing something that harkens back to an era that has been totally recycled in so
many tired ways by modern hardcore punks, but that
is fucking fresh and killer and incendiary. Candices
voice has the snot and danger of Alice Bag, but if she
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guitar sound is ferocious and the riffs are the coolest. I love
this record in a relentless manner! Gimme more. (LG)
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This bands The Complete Earth LP from last year
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full of creativity, attitude, hardcore leanings, and
modern garage weirdness, but unfortunately most of
what made that record so great didnt make it to these
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is also mid-paced but a little more down in the dirt,
and doesnt really go anywhere. Skip this and get the
aforementioned LP. (DG)
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RAZZAPPARTE Brucia! CD
This is the 20th anniversary release of this Italian
Oi! band that Ive never heard of. The only thing Oi!
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the bad shout-along choruses in Italian. Otherwise its
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and interesting are plain annoying and not appreciated. Lets hope theres not a 30th anniversary for my
golden years when Im doing reviews in a home with
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Animal
Portland pure hate pure pig music recorded out of the back of a box truck full
of pig heads unloading next to the Clement
Street farmers market. This is probably too
stiff a drink for Portlands PORK crowd,
but if I was wrong about that Id be in denial anyway. If you need next of kin info
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(who does the cover art on this particular
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Centipede fan art are both represented in the
insert collage, if that gives you any idea. I
saw this band play in an alley between two
youth crew sets at OHC this Summer, which
Im not telling you to brag, but simply to
inform you that this band is likely to take
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overpasses, and bike lanes in your neighborhood. Pick this up if you were disappointed
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appealing. Two songs of fuzzy style garage
rock sung with an Italian accent. It is nothing too out of the ordinary, yet charming
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Well, before they were a spooky goth
post-punk band, they were a cute pink-andpolka-dots punk pop band (any rocker worth
their leather knows this, of course). This is
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anything near the quality pop classics like
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perfect songs that Im glad arent buried
on this mostly placid LP), but the tunes are
passable and its a good grab for the legions of
drooling Australian punk fans out there. (BB)
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know its coming, so its never shocking

but its never ineffective either. By the end
of any given song here, youre shirtless and
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dance bullshit that you never even knew you
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Really. Anyway, this lot really knows what
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in total darkness one night soon, no doubt.
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JULIETTE SEIZURE AND THE

TREMOR-DOLLS When I Leave
You EP
This is a good month. The hits just keep
coming. This one is straightforward power
pop that just doesnt stop. The energy level
is ten. The female vocals are shouted, but
only because shes consumed by the music. Hell, weve even got some handclaps.
Theres a sense of energy that reminds me
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SHADOW LAUGHTER Nightmare

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their way to wax after a couple of demo
tapes. Pretty by-the-books stuff, but man, the
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fukk it. Driving tracks with a high end buzzsaw guitar and lurching drums, all fronted
by clean, shouted vocals assailing the evils
of media and the horrors of technology and
the general frustrations of lifeits like if
N.O.T.A. were less ripping and more street
punk. In general I wish the songs were a little shorter and a little faster, but I aint in the
band so I dont really know why they would
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Guitars are tortured and brutalized, vocals shred chords three houses away, and
the rhythm section is so deliberately punishing that it makes you wonder what you
did wrong when you dropped the needle.
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THE SCIENTISTS Blood Red River LP like a split fukkn song between two differThe leap the SCIENTISTS took from ent bands, and the title track that follows is
their punked-pop debut LP (also re-ishd guitar driven indie rocks worst nightmare
via Numero) to Blood Red River is perhaps (because you see, fancy people, this shit can
too large to reasonably chart. It loses a lot of still have teethand its fukkn better when
folks who start at the beginning. That said, it does). A chaotic and commanding record
youve just gotta know that the real-deal drawing equally from 80s noise rock and
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songs. Drew Owen barks half sentences
spewing with hate and bile. He sounds like
something closer to POISON IDEA or even
early GG on this record rather than the garage references hes usually tied down to.
The whole fucking thing is brimming with
disgust for the human raceand its all over
in about two or three minutes. This fucking
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Theyve got some pretty sick blast beat
parts, and Id like to hear more of that;
theyve also got some black metal and early
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heard it all before and Im kind of bored. (BA)
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really sung vocals. This is like the lost amazing mindblower that sounds like a scene (late 70s/early 80s
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go and tell everyone about it and then listen to it again
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dark melodic undertones. In the end, their unsophistication and immediacy gives them the kind of natural
charm and sway others affect. To top it off, this comes
housed in a beautifully printed folding sleeve, with
lyrics and the original cover for the Zri Punx/Bombs
45. Timeless and essential! (LA)
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SPLAT Negmo EP
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band name and the front cover (drawing of a gerbil
sitting at a breakfast table with the band members in
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on a 45, Cleveland label). But lets actually listen to
it. To be honest, it is a little cute, but it is some deliberately weird music and that I appreciate. There
SOFT SHOULDER No Draw LP
are a lot of left turns here. It can veer from REDD
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bass-heavy post-punka pig-fuck mashup of the PLJKWQGIURPDEDQGRQWKH*LOJRQJRFDWDORJ,I,
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funk of RADIO 4, and the angst of GEISHA GIRLS. punk band. That said, on at least one track the vocals
The B-side is one long tracka semi-improvised remind me a bit of the BANANAS, a band that Ive
trawl through a sewer of repetitive rhythm and gui- SUREDEO\ PDOLJQHG DV FXWH LQ WKH SDVW ,YH EHHQ
tar manipulation. There are parts that are reminiscent wrong before: self-aware ex-punks in their thirties
of SHELLAC or later FUGAZI. Truly an exercise in still drink together at BANANAS shows and manage
stamina (for the player and the listener). I dont think to fuck up each others antique upholstery after the
,HYHUQHHGWROLVWHQWRWKDWVLGHDJDLQEXWWKHUVWIRXU gig. God knows what they do in Cleveland. (EW)
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STATEN BRINNER Punk Pa Svenska EP
SPERMA Zri Punx EP
Swedish rocknpunk thats competent but none
Blimey! Early Euro punk lovers and KBD fans, this too interesting. Reminds me a lot of early GLUCIFER
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recall from Killed By Death #7) is about as seminal breasted man wearing the bands t-shirt for a cover.
a punk track as it gets. It also appeared on two of the Supposed to be eye-catching, I guess, but I could give
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us all a solid and reissued all three of these jams on
one piece of wax. Sung in Swiss German, a spoken- STATIONS Work EP
only dialect, the lyrics and vocals do a fantastic job
Punky goth in outer space? Holy shit, I am loving
of capturing the spirit of the youth movementand this. Fusing the anguished shrieks and head-bobbing
subsequent punk scenethat was booming across rhythms of todays dark punk revival with the elecSwitzerland in the late 70s and early 80s, along- tronic wizardry of stratospheric proto-punkers like
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is gone for a moment, they dream of punk and anar- out, a pulsingly manic bit of sonic devilry, completchy, these are the tough Zurich punks. The sloganeering its infernal mission before unraveling into stompy
ing words, unpretentiously simple song progression NUDXWURFNZKLOHWKHFORVHU0DVWHU'LVFLSOHVRXQGV
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STAY CLEAN JOLENE CD

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this one. I have to confess that Ive never
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STRAFPLANET Big Feelings EP
Here we go. The debut EP from Austrias STRAFPLANET crushes all the way
through. They ruuule at up-tempo, heavy,
driving tunes with enough swing to get one
going. They get ripping fast and then drag it
out, sometimes mixing it up every few bars,
sometimes just barreling straight through.
Occasionally they lose momentum, but its
a minor complaint. The vocals are rad, sick
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a short LP, in a good way. Great fucking job,
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STRANGE LORDS 12
Swampy and drunk-sounding dark garage/psych freakouts that never really freak
outdoes that make sense? It kinda sounds
like regular blues-based drum/guitar tracks
tweaked by a studio engineer on drugs,
so that its not the songs themselves that
are interesting, but their presentation. The
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its also the best cut by far. (WN)
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the UK/Television Spies
Everyones raving about this band, and
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SURVEILLANCE Man EP
This record destroys! Its pop punk, but as
noisy and chaotic as you can make it. If you
totally strip it down, you can feel a FAST%$&.6HDUO\V6HDWWOHFRUHXQGHUQHDWK
everything. But that core is surrounded by

layers upon layers of noise and feedback.
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doing in the late 80s. And its all blended
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HEARTBREAKERS L.A.M.F. Live at
the Village Gate 1977 CD
If you are a true punk rock and roller, you
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album. It practically created a bar-band
movement that still lives on. This release
was supposed to capture that era live. The
recording is listenable but not much more.
SWEET JESUS You Destroy Yourself LP Better than a bootleg but not even broadYou Destroy Yourself lies somewhere cast quality. This is why Im not big on live
between GO IT ALONE, the SHRINE, punk albums, because without the visual
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be because Patrick Flynn is singing though). D+($57%5($.(56FRPSOHWLVWJHWWKLV
Its a pretty odd combo that ends up coming The rest of us just listen to the original LPs
together pretty well. Not in a frenetic ANNI- (including the much better quality Live at
+,/$7,217,0(ZD\ZKHUHWKHULIIVZHUH Maxs Kansas City) for a better representaSXQN FROODJHV RI 7+,1 /,==< WUDFNV EXW tion of this short-lived great band. (RL)
You Destroy Yourself still has the speed and (Cleopatra)
resonance of an emotional hardcore record,
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sions of a rock band. For fans of: Sundays
How are all the best punk records from
with your kid, making a difference in your Louisiana? Long overdue straight reissue of
community, letting loose on the weekend. OHJHQGDU\ /RXLVLDQD .%' SXQN (3
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one of those lone killers that rests squarely
(Atomic Action)
on the wantlists of both punk and hardcore
collectors. Hearing this now, I gotta imagine
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listen I thought it was missing a sense of (Jeth-Row Records)
urgency that would make this a really great
record. Several listens later, and this thing is TRAU Doblers EP
growing on me. Cool lyrics, sweet nerd voOooohhh, yes. This is what I want. Guicals, and I like the songwriting; it just took a tars ever so slightly out of tune, drums mixed
few listens to hit me like it should. At times kinda weird so the frantic dupa-dupa is
it reminds me of a good mix of WEEZER somehow more prominent than the guitars,
DQG 0$5.(' 0(1 )DQV RI WKH SRSS\ and the vocals sound like they are trying to
stuff could do much, much worse. (DZ)
scream their way into the mix, struggling
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aged hardcore. No, the whole fukkn record
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electro/new wave jams. Its actually a bunch
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of repetitious riffs yet without the boredom. Its way
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changing from song to song rather than blending elements of all three genres. The classic bellowed toughguy Japanese Oi! vocal style is of course in full effect
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and three unreleased studio songs on the disc and surprisingly its the live stuff that the most compelling,
with a good recording and stronger songs (including
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without a second look in a lot of stores and distros
because of the hilarious use of comic sans as the cover
font and overall terrible design, but its worth a listen
if youre deep into skinhead music. (AU)
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that was apparent in their past recordings. The song is
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reverse echo on the chorus helps enforce the gloom.
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lazy and egotistical. Its like an extremely punk old
man yelling at you to get off his lawn. The music herein is tired and somewhat trite feeling, so locked into a
style these guys learned to play by rote that its devoid
of any real sense of joy or fury. I cant recommend this
for anything besides the chuckle it will provide. (LP)
(Loud Punk / Subversive Haircuts)
VVOVNDS Descending Flesh CD

%HOJLXPV 99291'6 RU :281'6 SOD\ H[tremely abrasive hardcore punk with proto-metal and
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for me, with an undercurrent of reverberating industrial
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for some of them though, which on the evidence of cover make a ghastly face in blackness. (JR)
this 45 is both unreal and apparent in the coolest man- (Hyper Tension)
ner. Having seen them play a bunch over the past year
or so, Im still blown away every time. Their music WET BRAIN Not Sorry LP
is tough yet rudimentary in total early hardcore style,
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an incredible and iconic front person, with a remark- with some riffs that lean more towards a major laable voice, like if DINAH CANCER was a tough HC bel metal edge and pretty awful rhymey I-just-disJLUO,YHVHHQHPFRYHU/$675,7(6&KXQNVEXW covered-feminism-I-hate-all-men 101 lyrics. If I had
they also get compared to FLIPPER and the BAGS! discovered them as a teen I know they would hold a
I think of them as a hardcore band but have gotten special place in my heart but as an adult its just kind
in arguments with people about it, perhaps because RIFKHHV\JRRI00
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general punk populace. I have no idea how anyone
could listen to this and not think that its a hardcore WHITE JAZZ Cant Relate EP
record. The guitar is burly in a classic Touch and Go 0\ JXHVV LV GXGHV ZLWK EHDUGV DQG DQQHOV ZKR
manner and the lyrics are smart and to the point, inter- were reared on Deathwish/early Bridge Nine bands,
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as total alienation/anxiety. I love this band, and this 45 noise rock or post-rock bands people ask for nights
is killer. Buy or die. (LG)
off from their jobs at Whole Foods to go see. Tight,
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crisp, well-produced modern hardcore thats often interrupted by dissonant guitar work or squealing leads
that tend to be particularly high-octave. Its done ex-
tremely well, pushing this out of norm or

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and comes back to a lost-at-sea post-rock
riff, which is cool, and in general, the songs
hold my interest. I have a higher tolerance
for this stuff than most, and I gotta say that
I like this record. (DG)
(Atomic Action)
featuring a track of killer pogo pop and the

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gets really claustrophobic as it goes along.
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YOUR PEST BAND Never Fall You
Again EP
This band has gone through a fair amount
of changes since they started putting out
records in 2008. Growth, some might say.
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their best material and since then they have
broadened their sound from pop punk to
incorporate jangly garage and a SPRINGSTEEN style of rocknroll. Sometimes
it works phenomenally. Sometimes its
its not my thing. This three-song EP has
their best moments distilled onto one small
platter, each song representing a different
approach the band takes towards songwriting. The A-side track is like a punk rock
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YUM-YUCKERS A Tragic History

EP
I reviewed this Long Island bands demo
ten issues back and compared the thick guitar sound to their neighbors in LATTER0$1DQG,521&+,&EXW,PKHDULQJD
lot more of their own personality on this
release. The production is a little slicker
and the ties to Long Island melodic punk
are still prevalent, but the guitar tone is just
fucking huge on this recordlike arena
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forceful, but really carrying the tune. In
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he straight up sounds like Glenn Danzigs
little brother or something. This is a solid
six-song EP for fans of East Coast melodic
punk. (GH)
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V/A Fat Music Vol. 8: Going Nowhere
Fat 2xLP
The latest collection/sampler from Fat
Records. This is mostly songs from releases in the last three years from Fat bands
including SNUFF, BAD COP/BAD COP,
NIGHT BIRDS, and pretty much everyone
else still on Fat. It does include exclusive
tracks from SWINGIN UTTERS, WESTERN ADDICTION and NOFX. (RL)
(Fat Wreck)

I dont think Ive ever reviewed an actual Oi! record during my four years here at
the magazine, which normally I would say
is good because I know (and care) fuckall
about most of it. Those who are paying attention, whether its to Oi! or just hot current punk, are probably already familiar
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equally as hard whether youre more into
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on the tupa beat and balances tough gang
vocals and catchy bass lines to create serious power. TRAITRE and OUTREAU are
new names to me, and while they dont get
my pulse running as high as the others, they
both stand up well on the comp. TRAITRE
stomps along at a comfortable pace while
offering some forceful shouts and sweet
guitar lines. OUTREAU is the only band
singing in English on their contribution,
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through brotherhood, or something. Anyway, its great! Totally massive comp!
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York 4xLP box set
Probably the most complete reissue
project anyone reading this mag would reasonably contemplate picking up this year at
the near $100 retail price point: four LPs
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after moment. Since I was heavily invested
in my own 4 LP box set experience at that
SUHFLVHPRPHQWLQSuperstars of the
70s on Warner Special Products, baby!) I
have to divine this perspective from reading the hardcover volume included with the
box, a chunky doorstop chock full of excellently reproduced b/w photos from midODWHV1HZ<RUN&LW\WKDWZLOOPDNH\RX
sigh heavily at all the desperate downtown
sleazenmalaise on casual display, which
drove rents to the point where working artLVWVFRXOGDFWXDOO\OLYHLQ0DQKDWWDQ)URP
the LPs you will hear every Ork release,
but also 45s that would have come out on Ork but for
$$$, and so popped out on other contemporaneous inGLHVUHFVIURP&+5,667$0(<$/(;&+,/721
LESTER BANGS, etc. Obsessives will need this for
the book, and especially for the only-here FEELIES
tracks, which are raw as chopped onions. I cant be
WRRPDGDWP\0RPIRUQRWEX\LQJPHWKDW7(/(9,SION 45 when I was seven, cause that Superstars
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years later the teenage fans of those groups would be
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would be reacting just like the Ork Records crews to
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forget, and it ignited right here in the U.S.A. on this
comp. (RW)
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The inserts include mini bios in Swedish for each

band. A must-have for fans of Swedish punk, the
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mellow gloom. We know what to expect from BELGRADO, but this offering is a tad lackluster, like
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the money is being given to them, how we can do
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my review pile. The only thing better than getting to Cvlt Nation cut and pasted onto a piece of paper. It
review this bad boy is receiving a reviewer copy to seems like circle jerk liberal clickbait, glamorizing
take home in order to spend some quality time with and objectifying liberation ideologies of non-western
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punk history. The MRR assigning gods have looked non-western cultures and concepts have shone
favorably down upon me indeed. This compilation through liberal and even radical ideological facades.
is bejeweled with lesser-known Swedish punk gems Its an ugly and real reminder that westerners have
UHFRUGHG EHWZHHQ DQG , FDQQRW UHFRP- a lot of internal dismantling to do in order to shatmend it enough. Some are so little known to a non- ter preconceived notions and the manifestations of
Swedish audience that they dont even appear in the white supremacy and imperialism in their personal
Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk. These volumes focus thought processes. A well meaning gesture, but that
on bands from smaller towns and the title appears to is sometimes not enough. (AP)
this non-Swedish speaker as a combative reference (Suadade)
against raggare, a bizarre Swedish redneck subculture whose participants trolled punk shows pickLQJJKWV5HSRUWHGO\HYHQ6(;3,672/6DQGWKH
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Atomic Action:
atomicactionrecords.bandcamp.com
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Bastardo Four: bastardo-four.de
Basurilla: losmierda@riseup.net
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beachimpedimentrecords.bigcartel.com
Bones Howell: boneshowell@yahoo.com
Boss Tuneage: bosstuneage.com
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brainsolvent.storenvy.com
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hotmail.com
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De Bike No Velo:
facebook.com/debikenovelo
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gilgongorecords.com
Girl Problem: wetwetbrain.bandcamp.com
Golden Gate: ju.guiheneuf@gmail.com
Goner: goner-records.com
Greater Than: greaterthancollective.com
Grump: grump.bandcamp.com
Heptown: heptownrecords.com
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Hyper Tension: hypertensionrecords.com
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Reviews by Lydia Athanasopolou, Matt Badenhop, Justin Briggs, Robert Collins, Michael de Toffoli, Dan Goetz, Greg Harvester, and Shit Zoo.
ACRYLICS Lovelys Slideshow These Santa

Rosa weirdos are back with another mutant-ass tape.
Their music is hard to describe but conjures visions
of sad clowns, downers, muddy 45s found in a ditch,
and total abandon. Its legitimately uncomfortable
music that is meant to pull you out of your comfort
zone. They only give you two slimy songs on this
tape, but this will have you tracking down their everincreasing back catalog. (Greg) (2-song cassette,
lyrics not included, acrylics.bandcamp.com)
BLACK ABBA This is so good. Budget rockstyle garage punk with a busted-ass synth and
fun vocals. There are songs about demons in your
mind, lost dogs and using the postal service. I dont
really know what else I can tell you. Just trust me
on this. Its simple and perfect. They have a 7 out
this month too, but I think the tape is better. (Greg)
(5-song cassette, lyrics not included, holotrash.
bigcartel.com)
BLIND DOG Its loud, fast, blown to shit hardcore
punk. Those are all things that I like. I mean, it kinda
goes in one ear and out the other, but thats because
Im oldmaybe. The recording is unnecessarily
shitty and masks what seem to be pretty solid tracks,
and there are effects where there dont need to be
effects, further complicating my enjoyment. But
BLIND DOG didnt do this for my enjoyment, they
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rocksbut I feel like the new face of US hardcore
is just dumbed down presentations of interesting
punk. And this shit is so close to being interesting.
Gimme yr tracks, kidsI want fukkn tracks not just
sounds. These sounds are furious modern USHC
mania, tinges of UK street punk and D-beat shits
buried under a fog of chaos. (Robert) (3-song
cassette, lyrics not included, blinddog.bandcamp.
com, deathsideblackout@yahoo.com)
BLOBS Shame This shit rules. Clean, jangly
guitars and a wimpy synth dominate most of this
recording, but theyre led through the muck by a
singer that I can only describe as exasperated. For
the most part, this is raging basement punk, but
they throw in some curveballs that will keep you
interested. Im looking forward to hearing more
from this band. (Greg) (6-song cassette, lyrics
included, morepowertapes.bandcamp.com)
BLOODSUCKERS Cheap Trip Cool demo
here from a Russian band ripping it up in the style
of the Japanese D-Beat noise crusters. Maybe less
heavy. Lovely stuff. (Justin) (11-track cassette,
lyrics in Russian included, runstate-tapes.com)
THE BRISTLES Ban the Punshops Classic
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reissue treatment by Zagreb based Aftermath tapes.
Everything about this tape is Punk with a capital P. The
BRISTLESwho take their name from the G.B.H.

12 Leather, Bristles, Studs and Acnewere a short
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like G.B.H. and the EXPLOITED, they played a
fast, raw mix of punk, streetpunk and hardcore, with
just the slightest Oi! touch, powered by melodic
bass hooks, mean racing riffs, noisy drumming
and ticked off vocals. Pogo perfect in every sense.
The lyrics and attitude are seminally punk, as
is the cover artwork. Songs like Unemployed
83, Thats Life, Lost Generation and Why
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BRISTLES, along with bands like STLIMPA,
ASTA KASK and ANTI-CIMEX to name but a few,
would become part of the trailblazing 80s Swedish
hardcore / rpunk lineage and also appear on MRRs
Welcome to 1984 comp with their track Dont Give
Up. Limited to 100, this tape is already sold out,
but you can enjoy the music at thebristles.bandcamp.
com (Lydia) (15-song cassette, lyrics not included,
prisonerof_state@yahoo.com)
BROKEN WINDOWS A nice debut from Grand
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over before Im ready (which is a good thing!).
The urgency and snarl taper off a bit after that,
but they maintain a good groove throughout the
next six songs, highlighted by a grungy guitar tone
and forceful vocal stylings. No solos, no frills,
no surprises, just pure power. Yes, they take their
name from the broken window policing theory,
and they refuse to be pushed out! (Matt) (7-song
cassette, lyrics not included, independentfries.com,
brokenwindows616.bandcamp.com/releases)
BRUISER QUEEN Lets Fall In Love Again
All Over: Home Demos 20101-2015 Somewhere
between loose Simple Machines/Olympia 91 indie
and straight singer/songwriter tracks with sweet
but powerful lead vocals that started out reminding
me of JEWEL with BJRK tendencies. Music is
stripped down guitar/drums, basically a platform for
the vocals, and these recordings highlight Morgans
vocals way more than the bands proper releases
which are more on the garage/indie/power pop trip
(and are very good). Dont worry about BRUISER
QUEEN, the vocals got got dirtier later on, and
they always have a breathy edge that is wholly
interesting and besides, and this is just a collection
of demo recordings anywaybut you should
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for comparisons. (Robert) (9-song cassette, lyrics
not included, bruiserqueenmusic.blogspot.com)
CHAOS TRIBE All Punks Go For It / 9
Horrendous Trax Coming out of the parched hell
that is Fresno, CHAOS TRIBE, alongside their
compatriots MUTANT ITCH, have sprouted an
oasis of ugly noise in central California. Ive been
lucky enough to drink from said oasis a number of
times and CHAOS TRIBE always blow me away

with their commitment to straightforward raw
noisecore. No trend, no fame, just a direct statement:
No quiero musica. 9 Horrendous Trax is an older
recording, released in time for the All Punks Go For
It show back in September with TOM AND BOOT
BOYS, EEL, and a slew of others. Both tapes are
great, but you need to just see them live. By the time
this issue prints they will have trotted up the coast to
play Cacophonie Nights in Portland, so Ive already
secured my next chance. (Shit) (9-song cassette,
lyrics included)
CHEAP WIG Agoness Were you bummed when
the singer from WHITE LUNG started writing for
stick-your-subculture-mining-up-your-ass-Vice and
then you thought shit man, I kinda wish that band
was more weird and punk sounding anyway? May I
introduce fellow Canadians CHEAP WIG? Dont get
me wrong, Im not saying they sound like WHITE
LUNG, but the vocals have that kind of power, and
the drums have that kind of drive (high praise on
both accounts), but this CHEAP WIG has an edge
that their BC colleagues cant touch (check the end
of Watch It Rot and tell me Im wrong). Super
twisted and powerful guitar-driven indie/punk (and
make no mistake that the whole thing here is punk
as shit) with serious teeth and vocals that are full
of venom and simply unfuckwithable. Sorry for the
arguably pointless other-band-name-dropping, but I
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feeling complete. (5-song cassette, lyrics included,
cheapwig.bandcamp.com)
CHRISTIAN DIOR Patriot Glass/Dioria Loose
and heavy indie music with gratuitous 90s alt-rock
tendencies. The ethereal production masks the more
forgettable tracks but it masks them well, sparse and
airy moments colliding with colossal discordant
waves during the more successful moments. Most
of the demo lacks focus but there are worth
it moments when they hit their target, and I can
easily see this band getting really good. (Robert) (6-song
cassette, lyrics included, christiandiorwi.bandcamp.com)
CINDERBLOCK No Future Top notch high
energy anarcho-skinhead punk from Boston. Hooks
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singing whose voice / is voiceless? to a song
assailing the consumption of animals (thanks for
that, by the way). Anti-cop, anti-nuke, anti-disco
and apparently pro-punk. Not just regular punk,
but punk of the highest order. You can call it UK
punk or UK82 or street punk, or even hardcore
and you wouldnt be wrong, but I just call this shit
punk. No frills, just good riffs and a meandering
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this demo doesnt give me is more. But that is what
the future is forright? (Robert) (6-song cassette,
lyrics included, dbrdistro.storenvy.com)
CORTARMAO While I question the point of a

tri-fold digipack CD for a seven minute, two song
demo, my job is to describe the contents and not
the delivery methodso: Noodly and nerdy 90s
German metalcore meets methodical and mathy
CAVE IN-styled US metallic indie/hardcore.
Chaotic and spastic with nothing to really grab onto
but these kids are going for it, and nothing here is
half assed. (Robert) (2-song CD-R, lyrics included,
cortarmao.bandcamp.com)
CRAZY BULL Mold Crow The opening
guitar tone is bang-on PENTAGRAM and the
track kicks in and its like Vengeance-era PRIEST
with RAINBOW-era DIO vocals. And yes, I am
well aware of how high I just set the bar and these
monkeys nail this shit. This was my second tape
in what was meant to be a marathon of new demo
reviews, but I just sacked that plan and Im drinking
beer and listening to heavy metal instead. (Robert)
(3-song cassette, no lyrics, crazybullphilly@gmail.
com)
CRY COYOTE After The Fact Wisconsin
grunge/cowpunk hybrid that casually ventures into
straight retro country. Slide guitar on the harder
numbers is welcome, but the vocals are too weak
for the country parts and they dont actually swing
like they need to. A live radio set, studio session and
a few dirty live recordings (best part of the tape for
this guy) make up this posthumous release. (Robert)
(17-song cassette, lyrics not included, onetrackmind.
bigcartel.com)
CULT SYNDROME Demented hardcore punk
of the darkest order from London. They do that
plodding 1-2-1-2 beat to death.but they do it
right, and when theyre hitting on all cylinders (like
Banality or Psychic Violence for example)
CULT SYNDROME are just unfuckwithable.
Just a few tasteful hints of the modern goth punk
resurgence, but without any of the lame-o trappings
that make that shit a yawnfest for rockersthese
punks play the dark shit punk as fukk, and its
a welcome injection. Yes. Good shits. (Robert)
(7-song cassette, lyrics not included, cultsyndrome.
bandcamp.com)
DANGER Demo 2012 Lost demo recordings
from 2012 from this Montreal band. Flawlessly
executed, UK82 style punkcore on this one,
drowning in guitar wankery that wholly adds to the
greatness of these tracks. I am a sucker for this style
when its done right and not repetitive, and this is
a prime example of how to do it right. Awesome.
(Justin) (6-track cassette, lyrics not included,
runstate-tapes.com)
THE DEACONS Beat Up the World Members
of BETA BOYS and CRYOGENICS play some
seriously raging punk in this newish band from
Kansas City, MO. Its a little more straightforward
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Midwestern freak punk, but played at lightning fast
4/4 speed. Shit is seriously killer. Get it now. (Greg)
(4-song cassette, lyrics not included, thedeacons.
bandcamp.com)
THE DEAD PAWNS / GAS STATION OF
LOVE Songs We Sing For Our Lord The DEAD
PAWNS play stripped-down, catchy punk with a

RAMONES or early WIPERS simplicity to it, along
with the RAMONES sense of humor and vocal
dichotomy between emotive grunts and soulful
crooning. GAS STATIONS OF LOVE offer up a bit
of everything, and most of it I could do without. The
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is a cool down and dirty garage punk number with
a great rumbling bass hook, so theres that. (Dan)
(17-song CD, lyrics not included, myspace.com/
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DEATH CAMP Live at the Bug Jar Wow, this
is way different than I remember DEATH CAMP
sounding on the 7. The nasty mosh stompers are
almost entirely gone and in that empty space has
fallen something similar to a dark, slithering, metallic
rocknroll combo of DANZIG / SAMHAIN and
maybe FEAR, with crazy dueling guitar leads. Not
gonna be for everyone in Maxiland, but shockingly
good for the style and shockingly different than
what I expected. And the recording quality is better
than most bands records. (Justin) (11-song cassette,
lyrics not included)
DISASTRONAUT Instantly familiar sounding,
yet I cant place it. HICKEY-esque presentation
without the pop hookseven though there are
plenty of hooks. Vocals are kinda monotone drones,
almost whiny, and are really what raise the whole
thing into the ethereal realm. This is distorted space
age basement punk with a penchant for things
unconventional and interesting. If nothing else,
Im intrigued. (Robert) (5-song cassette, lyrics not
included, disastronaut.bandcamp.com)
DRIP Delayed-out oompah-oompah hardcore
punk from this Montreal band. Not too far off from
what their neighbors to the west, S.H.I.T. are up to.
(Justin) (8-track cassette, lyrics included, runstatetapes.com)
DUDES Ultra Vauge Pretty simple minded unpop punk. Just dudes enjoying themselves writing
about stuff like having fun, not having fun anymore,
being empty headed and indecisive, blowing
everything off. Pretty dumb dudes but the guitarist
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fucking tone through a phaser to keep it interesting.
Its pizza and beer punk, just bros bein dudes.
(Michael) (6-song cassette, lyrics not included,
morepowertapes.bandcamp.com)
FIRE RETARDED Live At Turkeyfest 2014
Maximum energy grungy garage punk rocknroll,
recorded live and delivered with power. Fuzzed-out
frequently wanking guitars add a welcome touch of
psychedeliathough it might actually be dementia.
Either way, that little smattering of something
different helps. (Robert) (13-song cassette, lyrics
not included, rainyroadrecords.com
GARTER Tough and in-your-face punk from
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a lot of current bands in American punk these days,
but in the same vein as VEXX, i.e. still propulsive
and interesting. Good hooks. This is a great demo
and I feel like this band will only get better with
time. (Greg) (5-song cassette, lyrics not included,

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com)
GAS STATION OF LOVE Learning Curve
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hybrid. Chunks of this could sneak onto a Las Vegas
Grind comp and chunks are just bedroom recording
gone wrong, but sometimes the joy of listening is
the adventure. (Robert) (10-song cassette, lyrics not
included, nogrecords.tictail.com)
GHALI Death Curse Airy guitar-driven garage
pop. At times the whole thing sounds like a lazy take
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want to listen over and over, even if its just a more
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punks gotta remember that sometimes shit is hip
and trendy because its good (Robert) (4-song
cassette, lyrics not included, getresurrected.com)
GUSH MRR has this tongue-in-cheek rule that
you cant sing during the mosh part and this band
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with me. I dont give a shit. Fast as fuck-core (think
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? but falling apart) that
breaks down into sick ass mosh riffs and fronted
by a woman whos vocals are 100% in the red at
all times. Pure anger and disgustand partying
full on. (Greg) (6-song cassette, lyrics not included,
ooeygooeytapes.bandcamp.com)
HATEHUG Fierce rockin Berliners highlighted
by a rough, feisty recording and a ripping hardcore
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crawl low-mosh number that hits all the current
bullet points, HATEHUG do a thing that doesnt
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weird parts, forceful and in your face burners when
they want to rage, and everything fronted by vocals
strained to the max. Good stuff. (Robert) (7-song
cassette, lyrics included, hatehug.bandcamp.com,
colossustapes.bigcartel.com)
HEALTH PROBLEMS Ugly Man HEALTH
PROBLEMS hails from Seattle and they play dark,
ugly, bass-heavy post-punk that oddly has some
moments that remind me of Ozma-era MELVINS.
They also have some SHELLAC vibes going on
in the sense that they have a lot of jerky, angular
time signatures while the singer splits the songs
between almost talking and then yelling, but
always coherently. Its heavy. Its ugly. (Greg) (16song cassette, lyrics included, casinotrashrecords.
bandcamp.com)
THE HUSSY Live on WFMU Male/female
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mediocre/recording. Fans/only. (Robert) (24-song
cassette, lyrics not included, rainyroadrecords.com)
INEPSY Unreleased Demo / Loudhouse 2000 Hell
yeah. An unreleased 2000 demo from the greatest
group of Motr-beat booze hounds of our generation.
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this the prime era of a great band before the crusty
element was replaced by KISS nods. You already
know whether or not you want this. (Justin) (4-track
cassette, lyrics not included, runstate-tapes.com)
JUMP THE BLINDS Ultra cool Buffalo punk

shits. Clean East Bay Ray-esque guitars and a warbly
singer belting out soulful leads that sometimes break
into screams. The tracks swing like motherfukkrs,
and theres a snotty irreverent cool about the whole
thing that will appeal to garage punkers, drunken
ragers and people not too cool to shake their asses.
Tape contains the Kill Kill Bangkok and Hooker
Chemical recordings, for those keeping track.
Excellent. (Robert) (15-song cassette, lyrics not
included, drugparty.org)
KAPPA CHOW After reviewing three kinda
pleasant but basically dull garage-esque punk things,
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but so much better. You gotta have pop sensibilities
to pull this shit off, and KAPPA CHOW are so
loose with the hooks that it all sounds effortless.
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repeatedly/drunkenly in your...garage. Duh. Top
notch. (Robert) (?-track cassette, lyrics not included,
kappachow.bandcamp.com)
KHARLOS Dont Think About Dying At My
Party +L UHFRUGHG KLSVWHU JDUDJH URFN WU\LQJ
to be party music. Doesnt have much to say, its
all style, verbed vocals and pop hooks, same surf
beat throughout. They seem like scene famous lifeof-the-party bros that learned the most recent cool
marketable genre. Famous before even becoming
famous, its background forgettable music starring
that band that everyones heard of so you should
too. (Michael) (8-song cassette, lyrics not included,
KNIFEHAND7KLVFDVVHWWHLVQH,WVW\SLFDO
modern metal-injected trashy hardcore that sounds
like every other band thats doing this. Dueling
yelling vocals that sometimes growl but dont
change or do anything creative, guitars that play
what youd assume they would, drums that are
either calm at 10% or blasting at 100% but always
one or the other. You know the formula. Overly
wordy like CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE but
with nothing really that interesting to say. Listen to
this when youre all done listening to the last band
that sounds like them and then move on to the next
one. (Michael) (5-song cassette, lyrics included,
knifehand1.bandcamp.com)
KOMMUNION Fuck yeah! Vicious, unrelenting,
raw USHC from Richmond, VA that is brimming
with feedback and total hateor maybe its
brimming with hate. I dont know what the fuck
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Total annihilation-style riffs that remind me of stuff
along the lines of TORSO, CLEANSING WAVE
and DISCHARGE-worship bands. Incredible
demo. (Greg) (4song cassette, lyrics not included,
kommunion.bandcamp.com, 518 Chimborazo Blvd,
Richmond, VA 25225)
M.A.D. Nuclear Fucker /RZHVW GHOLW\
imaginable raw D-beat with reverbed vocals and a
white, wavering hiss piss passing as music. Its not
music, its fukkn noize, but that is what you want, so
you want to get M.A.D. (Robert) (5-song cassette,
lyrics not included, deathsideblackout@yahoo.com,
maddbeat.bandcamp.com)
MAC BLACKOUT BAND City Lights Super

fun tapehes like a fucking punk MEATLOAF! Its
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tells a coming-of-age story about someone moving
to the city and struggling to adapt, then meeting
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Punks In Pleather calls out fake poseur punks
and is dead on. Really theatrical wailing guitars and
prominent synth-driven new wave, but gruff and loOLNH-$<5($7$5'7KLVJX\LVDWRWDOVKRZPDQ
and his theatrical stage show perfectly translates
onto tape. (Michael) (6-song cassette, lyrics not
included, facebook.com/macblackout, macblackout.
bandcamp.com)
MASTER ZERO Bus No A/C High energy
garage punk with an ear toward Nuggets and 60s
rocknroll. Superb songcraft, and Long Long
Night effortlessly masters the driving jams.
(Robert) (6-song cassette, lyrics not included,
drugparty.org)
MISERABLE FRIEND Thawed, Flawed +
Suffering Airy pop tunes so steeped in effects and
sounds that its sometimes hard to discern what you
are actually listening to. Simultaneously dreary and
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approach into the stagnant pool of manufactured
shoegaze while maintaining a solid lifeline to the
legacies of the trailblazers. You can hear SONIC
YOUTH and JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, and
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MISERABLE FRIEND are taking things into their
own hands with intriguing success. This is their
second full-length offering. Hopefully these things
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from the Demos section (Robert) (9-song cassette,
lyrics not included, miserablefriend.bandcamp.com,
miserablefriend@gmail.com)
MODERN PETS Shock By Shock A long-running
band from Berlin, they sent a note saying that this
is a compilation of eleven songs from throughout
the years that the band members handpicked. Its
very consistent garage punk that moves from fast
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sound and dont allow any aspect to slow down.
Theyre effortlessly consistent and smooth at an
unwaveringly steady accelerated pace. This is a
great tape to put on and let it ride out. (Michael)
(11-song cassette, lyrics not included, modernpets1.
bandcamp.com)
MUTANT ITCH This band is a reason to go
to Fresno. If they ask you to play a show, I highly
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people to make a noisy bullshit racket with. This is
their second tape and the sound quality is roughly
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I loved the original demo and its total fuzzed-toArmageddon tone, but having seen MUTANT ITCH
countless times this tape captures them so well that
it just has to be taken as an improvement. Perfect
pogo bass and drums, with piercing guitar feedback
and washes of wah-hiss while Gurpaul plays feral
maniac/barking dog. I realize that probably is not
too appealing to a lot of people, but so it goes.
MUTANT ITCH are the best. (Shit) (7-song cassette,
lyrics included, darkraidslabel@gmail.com)
NAPALM RAID Mindless Nation Cassette

version of this Canadian D-beat, crust-core
powerhouses 2012 LP with bonus covers of
BATHORYs In Conspiracy with Satan, and
ANTI-CIMEXs When the Innocent Die. (Justin)
(10-track cassette, lyrics not included, runstatetapes.com)
NEW BERLIN This comes off as a kind of solo
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whole thing, mainly due to the vocals always being
low in the mix. Every song is produced quite
differently, which seems to be intentional, and gives
it an interesting and unpredictable quality. There are
hooks, and the songs are well written, though not
in any groundbreaking way. The RAMONES and
LEONARD COHEN covers are unnecessary, but
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Boy is a standout track in a Killed By Death comp
kind of way. Neat stuff from the deep south of Texas.
(Matt) (8-song cassette, lyrics included, newberlin.
bandcamp.com, newberlin881@gmail.com)
NEW YORK TAPS I feel like Im listening to
something that has actually come from the past. Like
late 70s, no-fucks-given, drug addled rocknroll
played with so much energy that it becomes punk
almost by accidentand then the dark acoustic
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to hear more! More burners, more rocknroll, thank
you, and California is the banger of the month,
total (inadvertent?) Black Dots outtake. Fans of
PAGANS/DOLLS et al will be enthused, fans of
punk will want to take noticeand take notes.
(Robert) (6-song cassette, lyrics not included, 460
Decatur St, Brooklyn, NY 11233, newyorktaps@
gmail.com)
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growls youve heard since you-know-who. Plodding
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rampaging (and, at times, almost rocknroll) midtempo burners, and the recording is just ridiculously
(and accidentally, Im guessing) perfect. Drums are
muddy and buried, bass is hollow and unnecessarily
overpowering and the buzzsaw guitar is distorted
into a tinny buzzsaw that has no power whatsoever
AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, DO YOU
HEAR ME?! And those vocalslisten to the gruff
snarl during the breaks in their eponymous song and
you will start to break shit. 100% banger status, this
rules. (Robert) (5-song cassette, lyrics not included,
and, sadly, no contact information)
PARTY ANIMAL Avant Garbage The cover
of this is an image of Calvin pissingwait for it
into a urinal. The music on this is not bad. They
play above-average, tight and raging hardcore,
but the vocals kill it for me. At best, theyre blas
and feel forced. A lot of the words are straight-up
cringe-worthy. I guess if you just wanna hang out,
party and listen to dudes sing about being dads and
shredding, this is for you. (Greg) (11-song cassette,
lyrics included, partyanimal.bandcamp.com)
POLICE DES MOERS Punk This cassette
features dark synth punk covers of punk tracks from
this self-proclaimed, crust wave unit. Track list
includes a hauntingly killer version of REAGAN

YOUTHs New Aryans (that reminds of one of my
personal favorite synth tracks by SS-SAY) as well
as CHRON-GEN, HEADCOATEES, TROTSKIDS,
ANTISECT, ANTI-CIMEX, RUDIMENTARY
PENI, and LUDWIG VON 88 covers. Interesting
listen. (Justin) (8-song cassette, lyrics not included,
runstate-tapes.com)
PYRE Human Hecatomb Unforgiving old
school death metal. Pure brutality and precision,
PYRE teeter between early Scandinavia and the
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combination. Fans of death, metal and punishment
who want to avoid the bullshit metal attitudes would
be advised to check out Reforestation Records, as
the level of quality from this Russian label seems to
be only getting higher. Bring it on! (Robert) (9-song
cassette, lyrics not included, reforestationrecords.
bandcamp.com, reforestationrecords@gmail.com)
RATS REST I dont know how many times
I can sing the praises of this band in these pages
without repeating myself, but listen up you fucking
fools. RATS REST is the shit. I know youre not
listening but thats your fucking problem. Therere
some guitar hooks and vocals that give Mush-era
LEATHERFACE and NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS
a run for their money (I doubt they have money, but
its a phrase people use). Their bass player is the
actual best bass player in the world, even though
I dont like to honor absolutes in that manner. Its
straightforward and punk as fuck. They cover a
song by UKE OF PHILLIPS. Whatever. Youre
gonna just keep listening to whatever shit someone
on the internet tells you to listen to anyway. I dont
care. You lose. Punks win. Fuck it. (Greg) (4-song
cassette, lyrics included, Stay Punk Tapes, PO
Box 22302, Oakland, CA. 94623, staypunktapes.
blogspot.com)
RAZOR SMILEZ A cover band from Germany,
though there are no song credits on the tracklist so
you dont know it until you start listening. I was
able to identify songs by GRAY MATTER, BIG
BOYS, WHITE TRASH, D.I., THE BRIEFS,
VIOLADORES, THE FREEZE, THE QUEERS,
NO MEANS NO, and HANSON BROTHERS.
More fun to make than to listen to, I think. (Matt)
(15 song CD-R, lyrics not included, razorsmilez.
blogspot.com)
RICECRACKERS Kolohe Kid Relatively
straightforward grunge tracks with powerful and
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of the whole mix. There are a few ska bits, but
otherwise this is very commercial sounding retro
grunge (one riff per songMall Girls is basically
variations on two chords) aside from the vocals
and those will either make this a winner or a loser
depending on your ears. Im reaching for mainstream
comparisons, because thats where my mind travels,
but they are just weird enough to elude meso I
guess the vocals win this round. (Robert) (4-song
CD-R, lyrics not included, 12 Greylock Rd, Allston,
MA 02134, berkleepunx.bandcamp.com)
SEAN GOSPEL Good Times With Bad Acid
Hes a founding member of the GOSPELS and this
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itself psych hiding under layers of weirdness with

a ton of wobbly tremolo on everything. Hes trying
to make his pop sound unique, but in the same way
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loud on purpose so that the whole thing is really
distorted, especially the vocals. Another recording
trick to mask his simple pop music to sound harsher
and different. Pop punknroll, nothing new. Sounds
like any one of your friends solo projects. (Michael)
(9-song cassette, lyrics not included, facebook.com/
seangospel)
SELF MADE MONSTERS Fine Stew Opening
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remind me of ANTI-SEEN, opening track reminds
me of L7, and the whole thing is just a sweaty
screaming rock and roll powerhouse. Theyre at
thei best when they are heavy and dark, and more
rockin tracks like Abyss kinda get lost in guitar
wankery (worth noting that these kids can wank
better than anyone this side of ANNIHILATION
TIME, and seem to be equally well versed in The
Classics) while some of the simpler tracks have
more impact. I bet they like to get real drunk and
real dirty (Robert) (7-song CD-R, lyrics not
included, braindrainrecords.com)
SEXFACE Village Life EP Somewhere between
the LEWD and UK82 / No Future Records lies
Montreals SEXFACE. Maybe the track Toilet
Baby is leading me to the LEWD comparison but
I swear I can hear it in the music too. Rude, crude,
punkin tude on these charged, leather-clad troopers.
(Justin) (5-track cassette, lyrics included, runstatetapes.com)
SMOKERS Damn straight that this Oakland
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a killer punk tape full of the best songs Ive heard
since the COMPLICATIONS demo from a decade
ago. Equal parts WIPERS and CELIBATE RIFLES
and that little ba-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-da-da vocal ditty
in Silver Tongue just proves that they dont give
two shits about what you think is cool because
they know what is cool. SMOKERS swing and
SMOKERS groove dirty, and its all so casually
effortless. Power pop mongers will eat this up,
greasy rockers will eat this up, and punks worth
half a cigarette will inhale deeply. (Robert) (6-song
cassette, lyrics not included, 231 Oakland Ave,
Oakland, CA 94611)
SONIC ORDER Bombastic hardcore from the
UK with gruff blown-out vocals and a street punk
savvy approach to ripping noisy mania. I confess
that these kids have more success when they rein
it in a bit and just pound out the riffs, but theres a
certain charm to how wild and messy the shit sounds
when they ramp up the energy. Apathy Breeds is
the creamer for this guy, the song is almost as on
point as the lyrics: its easy to be edgy if youve
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target.fukkn perfect. (Robert) (6-song cassette,
lyrics included, sonicorder.bandcamp.com, jack.
pitt@uea.ac.uk)
SPACE WOLVES Space Wolves V Another
two-piece drum and guitar playing cute jangle
garage, basically Michael Cera hipster pop. Each
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just comfortable and inoffensive. Good boys playing

good boy music. (Michael) (10-song cassette, lyrics
not included, facebook.com/spacewolvesband,
STREET CREATURE Electric Eliminator This
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put together. Its groove metal with a death metal
complex. Bottom-of-a-pit screaming verbed vocals
buried beneath surprisingly riffcentric groovy fuzz
guitars, it comes across like a guttural traumatic
MOTRHEAD. Biker metal that spews from a
splattered skull oozing all over the pavement at the
scene of the crash. (Michael) (6-song cassette, lyrics
not included, facebook.com/streetcreatureband,
streetcreature.bandcamp.com/releases)
SUSS LAW New Portland band doing SORE
THROAT justice. Everything is spot on here, so I
dont even know what to say. Live theyre a bloody
mess in the right way, with a constant barrage from
the drums amid the squeals and screams. Im excited
to have bands playing this style around, especially
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punk. Thankfully SUSS LAW is ex-RADIATION.
Keep it coming. (Shit) (9-song cassette, lyrics
included, susslawpdx@gmail.com)
UZI RASH Banana Leaf Booji Live UZI RASH
is like the TUPAC of noise punk. Theyve been dead
for years but new stuff keeps surfacing. This new tape
comes in the form of a live performance recorded in
Costa Mesa, CA. I usually hate live tapes, but this
one has a recording quality that sounds better than
most bands demo tapes. It sounds really loose in
the best way, letting some intentional (??) wrong
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of JAD FAIR and EUGENE CHADBOURNE
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LP. Its out there. It sounds great. Freak-os apply
within. (Greg) (8song cassette, lyrics not included,
pleasantscreams.storeenvy.com)
THE VERMINS Three song demo of thug thud,
dirty alley punk madness featuring Spoiler from
OMEGAS. A tad Oi!, a tad late 70s KBD/garage,
a tad RAMONES / SPITS, a tad hardcore, all punk.
(Justin) (10-track cassette, lyrics not included,
runstate-tapes.com)
VANILLA POPPERS In my opinion, this
bands hometown of Cleveland is a bleak ass city
and I feel like their sound conveys that. I think its
also important to note that they cover the COMES
because the whole tape is doing a good job of laying
down that kind of vibe. Raw-as-fuck punk about
shit relationships, fucked up drugs and losing your
goddamn mind yet again. It rides that line between
hardcore and punk that always sounds so perfect.
This is the tape you want in your boom box if you
live in the only punk house on your street and you
spend all day drinking on the porch and throwing
empty beer bottles at joggers and cops. (Greg)
(6-song cassette, lyrics included, saucepanrecords.
bigcartel.com, blowbloodrecords.bandcamp.com)
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$7 / 32 pgs
A punk mag at its best can make real the
ineffable and put it into ink: the tangible
thrills of collecting, what it is exactly that
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phone. Editor-in-chief Miranda Fisher
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Mlltte show in Oakland about a year ago
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a review zine. Submissions from friends
include commentary on printed media,
memories, drug use, and punk shows. The
reviews, while far from all lighthearted,
sandwich a panel transcription from a
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is a great zine to pick up if you need a little
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CHICOS ESTPIDOS #4/5
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GRIMM MEMES
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NWI bands, before a brief Q&A with Mark
Winter, the punk wunderkind, NWI treasure
and main brain behind Ooze, Big Zit, and
Coneheads. Sam Ryser contributes an
ad for the NUTS! shirt he designed, and a
trippy poem by Shannen closes the issue
off. Just get a sub already! (LA)
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be at the bottom of any pile of zines. The
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band members squabble and hate on each
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issues have plenty of music and zine
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revivalist side for way over twenty years
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the same vitriol. Both issues also have
puppets (paper dolls) for you to cut out and
assemble, though personally I dislike arts
and crafts activities. An education between
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tradition. (JM)
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of a sketchbook because, well, it is. P Timer
draws people in sharpies all looking the
same. Oval faces and almond shaped eyes
with large black pupils. One senses that P
Timer is drawing his own face over and over
and giving himself different names. Large
blocky text interrupts the portraits and
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not a bad place to be. (EC)
ptimer99@gmail.com
POLLUTION CAPITALE & FRACTURES
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We received this envelope with a few
older zines and a newer one, done by
some of the same folks. Pollution Capitale
was a monthly French-language Parisian
newsletter, whose crew recently split up.
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show listings, interviews, reviews and a rad
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great farewell cover and reprints the covers
of the earlier editions. What a great free
thing! Also great looking is the video zine
they assembled, from the fall of 2014. The
zine housing the DVD looks great and has
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on paper are the French bands Krigskade
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Dauntless Elite, and from the USA, Aaron
Cometbus discussing the French edition
of his On Tour With Green Day issue. The
video has these bands doing a few songs
from shows in Paris over the past couple
years, along with Absurdo, Unlogistic, and
Ghost Trap. Interviews are shown with the
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the styles vary considerably, pretty much
every band has good energy. Altogether, a
very nice package! Mat from the Pollution
crew put together his own thing, Fractures.
The July 2015 issue is a one-sheet, still with
rad punk layout, a photo, and one side is a
creepy drawing. The writing, I think, sums
up recent happenings in the scene. Cheers
to Pollution Capitale and please, many
more Fractures&RQWDFW0DWWRVHHZKDWV
still available.
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to beat depression which theoretically I dig
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holy shit this comes off as a ball of preachy
narcissistic humble bragging. This was
a fucking eye roll front to back. A fucking
copyright message at the beginning? A
list of recent releases? A bio blurb on the
back page with a cool dude hanging out
publicity photo? Press quotes on the back?
If this somehow helps someone out of a
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pretentious sleaze slime. (MM)
pioneerspress.com
SLINGSHOT #119
free / 16 pgs
The Slingshot collective has been putting
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you need to pick up a copy immediately. A
purely political zine, with only a slight focus
on Bay Area issues, plus articles about
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in North America), bullshit pharmaceutical
news, anarchist book reviews, a list of copwatching apps and a fuck-ton more. (DZ)
P.O. Box 3051, Berkeley, CA 94703 /
slingshot.tao.ca
SOFA KING #4
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go through and translate a line here and
there. The stuff I did translate was pretty
funny even though, you know, things get
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a lengthy section of band reviews in which
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the Urinals sound like the Ramones. There
is a lengthy article about True Detective, a
section that appears to be show reviews,
a review of punk from different countries,
maybe something about Ian Mackaye?
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to read. (MM)
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SPARE CHANGE #32
$2 / 40 pgs
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heard of his love for the USPS. In this issue
he reprints his postage paid remarks (insert
cha-ching sound for the USPS here!) to a
shit-selling mail order company called the
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few totally legit guffaws throughout, and the
large love letters he sent semi-anonymously
via international air mail (does this bring
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are not only hilarious, but totally fucking
sweet, to boot. Always pick up Spare
Change when you see it. (DZ)
P.O. Box 6023, Chattanooga, TN 37401
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The awards for longest words and cleanest
photo reproduction go to this Finnish
standby. Much of it is given over to reviews,
including a few pages on Puntala-Rock
2015, which drew Una Bstia Incontrolable
and Mustang, along with numerous locals.
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Ume (Sweden) scene is reported on; a
sweet mural is reproduced. The shorter
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few showslacks live photos, but is there
is a nice shot of the whole crew. Toinen
Vaihoehto always looks great, go Finland!
(JM)
PL 25 / 37501 Lempl / Finland /
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(RIP), some record reviews and an interview
with the band War on Women. (AP)
PO Box 1444, Columbia, MO 65205 / ttwn@
hotmail.com
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around the world, and intersectionality
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twenty years ago, back when you could say
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revisions are (other than the intro stating
that the food options are better), because
somehow the politics have stood still for two
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years, but this kind of shit makes me want
to eat foie gras out of spite. (DG)
cubesville@hotmail.com
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