We live in an age where almost every punk record ever released is available for download. Usually you’ll find what you’re looking for on one of the hundreds or Blogspot sites dedicated to making old out-of-print vinyl accessible to everyone, and that is awesome. But what the vast majority of these blogs lack is a […]
January 18, 2012 is one year since the shutdown of San Francisco’s college & community radio station KUSF. At 10 am that morning KUSF’s program director, representatives from the University of San Francisco and armed campus police interrupted DJ Schmeejay while on the air, asked him to leave the studio and turned off the transmitter. It is a horrible […]
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race (on Verso Books, edited by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay) just hit the academic circuit claiming to be the “Ultimate Collection” of writings about punk and race. While many, and I mean many, many, many of us punks of color whom this book claims to be […]
This week’s Monday Photo Blog comes from Eugenita Gravina of Bad Bones fanzine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She went with two local bands, Los Valientes, and Los Caidos, on tour through southern Brazil. Here’s visual proof of some of what went down. You can also see more work at abejaenojada. Send your tour photos, bands […]
Well, between our “discovering” this and getting around to posting it, this video has gone wicked viral. Over 37,00 views in just over four days. There’s even a blog that wrote a lengthy (very poorly written) piece on how much this video sucks. When that kind of shit happens you know you’ve really hit the […]