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Basslines & Protest Signs Part 13: Rock Against Racism
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week’s topic is Rock Against Racism.
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Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week’s topic is Rock Against Racism.
Darrin chats with his new pal, model/writer/entrepreneur and former Playboy playmate Iryna Ivanova.
Kevin Lyman is ready to see where the Warped Tour will go from here. When I talk to him, it’s days after he announced the end of “punk rock summer camp” in 2018. The music industry is still in a funk—we’ve returned to middle school levels of emo—which has Kevin feeling like he’s walked in on his own funeral. “I’m not going away, I just have to readjust the way we’ve been doing things,” he assures me. “It just might manifest itself it different ways.” For now, Warped has its final tour on the books, and plans for a 25th… Read more »
It’s the Halloween episode of the Dangerous Darrin Show, and they’ve got plenty of punk rock treats… and tricks.
Darrin chats with his old NYC Hardcore pal Timmy Chucks. Tim wrote songs and sang for NYHC stalwarts TOKEN ENTRY.
Allout Helter has something for everyone who likes fast, aggressive music.
When you think true-blue, rock’n’roll roots punk, you think DIY ethics. Whiplash inducing guitar work and gnarly vocals filled with passion (or resentment) have always gone hand in hand with flyering for your own shows, loading your own equipment, and making unfiltered music with no one’s opinion but your own.
It’s pretty apparent that we’re writing to you from a time warp, because we’re certain it’s still 2008 even though we’re discussing the biggest moments of 2015. Anything that happened this year that had you happy, sad, or anywhere in between can probably be found below. Check out what our staff remembers most from 2015, then let us know what you’d add to the list on Twitter.
Fallstar vocalist Chris Ratzlaff gives a track by track breakdown of the band’s new record, ‘Future Golden Age’.
Planted in a small West Virginia town, Rob and Nat Rufus of Blacklist Royals are conjoined twins, not physically, but they’re brothers of the same artistic DNA, roommates on the open road, and lifelong punk rock compadres.
