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Giving 'bad music' another chance

June 29, 2010 / 1 Comment

Back in May, “Best Worst Movie” director Michael Paul Stephenson wrote an editorial about loving bad movies. It was titled: Bad Books Are Bad, and Bad Food Is Bad. But Bad Movies Are Not Always Bad What’s missing from the title? Music. Specifically bad music. Perhaps Stephenson left bad music out of the conversation for … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 40 oz, Best Worst Movie, Brokencyde, Christopher Weingarten, crunkcore, Damian Abraham, DIY, exclaim!, Eye Weekly, Fucked Up, Michael Paul Stephenson, Pink Eye, scrunk, The Boston Phoenix, The Huffington Post, Troll 2, Warped Tour

Black Flag's Chuck Dukowski and hardcore punk's garage sale

April 9, 2010 / Leave a Comment

A couple years back, Minor Threat drummer and Dischord Records co-founder Jeff Nelson decided to do a little spring cleaning. So, he did what any person looking to unload a whole lot of perceived junk would do: Sell it on eBay. Yet, Nelson wasn’t getting rid of, say, an old Tickle Me Elmo. Nelson began … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Black Flag, BLAST, Chuck Dukowski, Dischord, DIY, eBay, fIREHOSE, Hardcore punk, Jeff Nelson, Minor Threat, Negativland, Out of Step, punk, SST Records, Tickle Me Elmo, U2, Wasted Again

All-ages and DIY shows in Chicago

March 11, 2010 / Leave a Comment

I recently wrote a piece on all-ages shows and DIY venues in Chicago for Medill. The article went online Tuesday, and comes with a (brief) sister piece about the history of all-ages and DIY shows in America, a video and slideshow of a couple of venues and a handful of graphs and photos of these shows. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Algernon Cadwallader, all-ages, All-ages Movement Project, Boston, Business Affairs and Consumer Protection Department, Chicago, concerts, DIY, Do It Yourself, Enemy, Facebook, Medill, music, Ottoman Empire, punk, Strangelight, Todd P.

Some kind of merchandiser

February 7, 2010 / Leave a Comment

When Philadelphia’s Algernon Cadwallader played Strangelight – a new Chicago DIY venue – on Friday, Feb. 5, singer/bassist Peter Helmis took some time to discuss the process of creating and selling merchandise.

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Posted in: Behind the scene at shows, Featured Tagged: album, Algernon Cadwallader, CD, Chicago, concert, DIY, Do It Yourself, emo, merchandise, music, Peter Helmis, Philadelphia, punk, record, Some Kind of Cadwallader, Strangelight

Overlooked in the Aughts: Beauty Pill – The Unsustainable Lifestyle

October 22, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Overlooked in the Aughts is an ongoing feature focusing on some of the best albums from the 2000s that haven’t quite received the attention they deserved. Today’s post: Beauty Pill’s The Unsustainable Lifestyle. Dischord in the Aughts was something many of the label’s ardent fans never saw coming. The beloved DIY label seemed to be going through … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Beauty Pill, Dance of Days, Dischord Records, DIY, emo, Fugazi, Hardcore punk, Jawbox, Lungfish, music, Nation of Ulysses, Our Band Could Be Your Life, post-hardcore, punk, Q And Not U, Shudder To Think, The Argument, The Make Up, The Unsustainable Lifestyle

Art With Flavor

July 17, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Giddy would be a great explanation for how I felt when I saw this news release from Jagjaguwar: We’re proud to announce that PARTS & LABOR will be releasing their new album, “Receivers,” on 10/21/08 here in the US and 11/03/08 in the UK. Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor has become one of my favorite bands … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: art-punk, BJ Warshaw, Brandeis University, Brooklyn, Cardboard Records, Chums coffeehouse, community, Dan Friel, DC, Dischord, DIY, emo, hardcore, Jagjaguwar, Joe Wong, London, Love and Circuits, Mapmaker, music, noise, Noveller, Nowheres Nigh, Parts & Labor, Pitchfork, post-hardcore, punk, Receivers, Rock Sound magazine, Sarah Lipstate, scene, shoegaze, Siren Music Festival, UK, Whartscape

An Introduction

July 3, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Before things begin, I shall kick things off with the words of someone else. Ted Rall is a witty, no-holds-barred political cartoonist with a wonderful sense of humor. Shamefully, I don’t read his weekly comics as often as I’d like to/should. But, as I flipped through the most recent edition of the Weekly Dig, I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: America, Apartheid, band, community, cult, culture, etc, Davey von Bohlen, DC, Dischord, DIY, emo, emotional hardcore, hardcore, maturity, Mexico, misconception, music, Nothing Feels Good, OAR, Perfect Lines, politics, pop, popularity, positive, punks, society, South Africa, suicide, Ted Rall, The Promise Ring, UK, Weekly Dig

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