The Boston Phoenix profiled local transfeminine radical folk-punk musician Evan Greer for its (admirably trans*-inclusive) “Queer Issue.” I’ve been an Evan Greer since I first saw her a few years ago, and if you’re the sort of person that follows my blog, her music might just appeal to you as well. My favorite’s probably “Picket Line Song.” For the article, the Phoenix also included a playlist of some of Evan’s favorite tracks. If you click the link, you can read her descriptions of each. Or just listen with the widget below:
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As far as I can tell, Jake and the Infernal Machine’s amazing song “Ronald Reagan’s Dead” is nowhere to be found on the internet. Everyone who feels a little happier about the world remembering that Ronald Reagan is dead should like this one. I can’t find the CD sleeve right now, but I’m pretty sure this was released under a Creative Commons license, so I feel free to upload my copy to share with the world.
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Joy Division - She’s Lost Control (from Unknown Pleasures)
I don’t put enough music up on this blog. Since I just reblogged a Morrissey picture, let’s sick with the Manchester in the eighties theme and toss a Joy Division song in there.
While I’m uploading photos, here’s some from way back in the summer of 2009. I was kind of amazed at how great the lighting in these turned out to be. It was a punk rock show in a dusty warehouse basement, with a single lightbulb on a cord hanging from the ceiling. A little later somebody shorted out the power by playing with the exposed wiring, as I recall.
FUNERAL CONE AKA CROWD PLEASERS
I admit, I haven’t seen the latest Dan Wars band, but I’m sure it’s awesome.
Earlier tonight. Big D and the Kids Table, “Shining On.”
Ages and ages ago, I thought of Big D as everything that was mediocre about third wave ska. But eventually I learned to love them. And their Halloween shows are a Boston tradition.
Tomorrow:
Big D & The Kids’ Table 16th Annual Halloween show, with:
Pietasters, Pilfers, Stray Bullets, Spring Heeled Jack
Any other ska punk lovers going to be there?
I haven’t been to one of Big D’s annual Halloween shows for a while. But I’m not going to miss the return of the Stray Bullets. Anybody else up for a ska punk extravaganza?
I’m pretty sure I’m not the only punk rock typography geek with an appreciation for puns and graffiti. But I still feel like someone wrote this just to make me smile.
(Source: fuckyeahsethbogart)
Evan Greer's Mixtape of Radical, Queer, and Pro-Queer Artists
Today would be Liberace’s 93rd birthday. So here’s some Showcase Showdown for everyone. Probably the most missed Boston punk band of the 1990s.
Members of neo-Nazi band beaten down at show — Trenton, NJ
When the iconic punk band DRI performed at a club in town that they have often performed, they did not know it was with a local band opening with ties to the largest and most violent neo-Nazi crew in the state. And the person who booked them at the club did not know until it was too late. But when Foreign Object started playing Skrewdriver covers, it became immediately apparent what this band was about. That was what precipitated a brawl that reportedly resulted in the band being beaten down and thrown out of the club.
According to reports, patrons to the club showed their displeasure with the band’s choice of music by confronting the members after their set. Random reports have been circulated of the drummer getting the recipient of much of the blows and band members attempting to run angry patrons down with their truck as they tried to escape.
Foreign Object is an Atlantic City-based band who counts among the band members lead singer Jack Warren, and guitarist Kenny Souder. Both are longtime associates of the Atlantic City “Skinheads” (ACS). Warren also plays with the band Hard Way while Souder also plays in the neo-Nazi band Chaos 88 with fellow ACS associate Warren Meickle, formerly of the white power band Aggravated Assault. Chaos 88 has recently played a show for the Confederate Hammerskins and in September plans to play a show for the Keystone State “Skinheads” in Pennsylvania
ACS has been in the news lately due to its founder and leader Bryan Bradley being struck and killed by lightning in September. Last month, Bradley’s fellow union members and state senators paid tribute to him at an Atlantic City, NJ monument to workers who lost their lives on the job, many of them not aware of his life as the leader of a hate group for 25 years.
While DRI has not as of yet made any statement in regards to the brawl and Foreign Object’s ties to ACS, the Houston-based band has a long history against racism, including performing at shows put on by the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. It is not known who was involved in the brawl or the extent of injuries sustained.
http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=990%3Aneo-nazi-band-beaten-down-in-nj&catid=29%3Aantifa-news&Itemid=14
