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Non-Music Shit / Re: Regional punk books/documentaries

« on: January 09, 2019, 06:51:32 PM »

Die Firma had a member of the band who was a long time Stasi informant, which is ironic, since their name is slang for The Stasi. This kinda thing wasn't as uncommon as one would think however. There is a good documentary about one of the more famous cases called Anderson from 2012 that's hard to find in the states, but worth a watch if you can track one down.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Regional punk books/documentaries

« on: January 07, 2019, 11:09:41 AM »

Nah, it?s been released in the past few years.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Regional punk books/documentaries

« on: January 07, 2019, 10:48:45 AM »

I?ve always thought that homophobia comes from boy?s and men?s inability to deal with the fact that sexuality exists on a gradient and everyone is bixsexual. There has never been a binary of gender or sexuality. I see people share scientific articles on social media atttesting to this the last few years, which is confusing to me since this has been obvious to me since at least puberty.

I can appreciate the fact people perform their masculinity to survive as I?ve done the same, but it?s off putting. Makes me wish I could have been around then to beat their asses and then write a letter to MRR letting the punk world know they got their asses beat by a queer.

While homophobia always had to exist with individual punks, I think before hardcore that punk itself was a lot more queer.

I?m glad they didn?t edit this shit out of the reprints but it?d have been thoughtful to address it directly. Maybe they do and I haven?t read that part yet.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Regional punk books/documentaries

« on: January 07, 2019, 10:31:03 AM »

Yeah, before AIDS was even known as GRIDS they were already laughing at news articles about the deadly new disease that effected homosexuals. It?s difficult to read when I am attracted to much to other aspects of the zine. Still, they were called out for that shit at the time, they just didn?t care.

The scene I was a part of in the 90?s ostensibly at least did not tolerate homophobia. It was still pretty hereto-normative and very un-queer but you couldn?t go around calling gay men ?faggots? or laugh about them dying.

The pop punk and garage rock scenes were def not as woke though, which was one of the main reasons I avoided them. (I also thought most the music sucked)

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Regional punk books/documentaries/zine collections

« on: January 07, 2019, 06:36:11 AM »

That Touch and Go collection might be the best of any of these zine reissues. It actually covers a lot of the same stuff as zines like Sub Pop and The Offense, and positively, which I found surprising. What I didn't find surprising, but is kind of a bummer is all the juvenile homophobic bullshit that litters the zine. It's not like it's just the writers though, apparently every "hardcore" band in the early 80's (minus Clit Boys, I guess) were not afraid to express their homophobia. Every band interviewed also only wants to talk about getting laid, but I guess the age of most of the musicians interviewed is 17-20.


Anyone check out the We Got Power book yet?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: The Offense zine Book of Books

« on: January 04, 2019, 05:49:39 PM »

I believe the link in the post above is to the publisher's webshop for the books (though the site doesn't work for me on my phone (does on a computer though)), but he's doing a couple more release party/readings at local record stores around town and if you got anyone who can pick one up there, they'll be 20$ cheaper than from the webshop. He also said there are distro prices for people buying 3 or more copies.

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Non-Music Shit / The Offense zine Book of Books

« on: January 04, 2019, 08:50:50 AM »

I picked up a copy of both volumes of The Offense's Book of Books. It collects the full first run of The Offense "books" which were thick, verbose zines that documented the 80-82 international post-punk underground from midwestern DIY to UK goth. It's always been a really interesting time capsule for me, and I've been fortunate enough to have read OG copies of most of 'em over the years and even own a couple myself I got from the editor when he was virtually our only regular when Shawn from TV Ghost and I used to do a goth dance night years ago.

Anyway, these books are huge at nearly 900  pages, and they collect all those OG zines in all their multi-colored glory. Next year there is supposed to be a new set of books that collect the years '83-89 when the zine stopped being a "book" and became a "newsletter."

It should also be noted that if you get the books directly from the editor Tim, you get them at a pretty massive discount off the list price and you get a free OG copy of an issue of The Offense zine (the books).

The books have a forward by Don Howland, who also used to write for the zine along with Termbo faves like Ron House, Jim Shepard and others.



https://bibliobookstore.com/Music/The-Offense-Book-of-Books-by-Tim-Anstaett

" The Offense was an alternative music fanzine published by Tim Anstaett in Columbus, Ohio between April, 1980 and March, 1982. Most of its fifteen issues identified themselves as books, and therefore this two-volume collection of all of their 888 pages is titled The Offense Book of Books. The first eight issues appear in their entireties in Volume One, and the ninth through fifteenth issues are fully included in Volume Two.

The first issue of The Offense was completely handwritten by Tim. Rather sloppily put together, it featured scene reports that he had written about towns that he had recently visited with a local Columbus band that had gone on a brief statewide tour. However, by the fanzine's eighth issue its looks had greatly improved, circulation had increased to 1,000, and four distributors had come aboard, which helped the publication to become nationally and internationally known. It was called The Offense because its mission was to go on the offensive and help spread the word about all of the great new music that was happening. Following the debacle that was its first issue, the ones that followed regularly included heated letters to the editor; freewheeling interviews; analytical record, cassette, and live reviews; and scene reports written by people who actually lived in the cities that they wrote about."

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Music Shit / Re: Loose on WCRS fm (Columbus)

« on: January 03, 2019, 10:13:40 AM »

Tonight's episode features all new wave and punk from the German Democratic Republic. It's already available for streaming/download online (until I'm able to get the station some turntables, I'm producing my show at home and uploading it for broadcast out of convenience).

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Music Shit / Re: Loose on WCRS fm (Columbus)

« on: December 30, 2018, 02:27:14 PM »

Weird, I notice that too. I haven?t seen it have that issue before so hopefully it rectifies itself. I?ll post if it changes.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Regional punk books/documentaries + zine collections

« on: December 29, 2018, 05:38:51 PM »

I picked up a copy of the Desperate Times zine collection, which is pretty cool, and recommendable for anyone interested in Pacific Northwest/West Coast punk zines. The book itself feels a lot more low rent to other zine collection books I've come across, but kinda feels more DIY and like a labor of love as a result. I also enjoy that the editor of the newspaper was a gay man, so it's interesting and refreshing reading the perspectives of a gay punk back then, not that I've come across anything so far that really discusses sexuality at all, which is interesting in it's own way.

I'm super excited that The Offense's first two books of the zine collection is coming out in January. The Offense are a little verbose, but I really dig the perspectives. It's definitely a more post-punk angle than hardcore. There are quirks about the zine which I don't appreciate, but they also kind of lend the work humanity, the shit is real and it's there to see, warts and all.

I really wish their was as resource out there that kept track of all this kind of shit in a reference kind of way.

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Music Shit / Loose on WCRS fm (Columbus)

« on: December 29, 2018, 11:52:09 AM »

I have a new radio show on Thursday nights at 11pm on WCRS fm (92.7/98.3) in Columbus. It is also available streaming over the web and archives of all shows are kept online.

https://wcrsloose.blogspot.com
http://wcrsfm.org/programs/loose

Here's a tracklist from last Thursday, where I played stuff from some of my favorite releases of 2018.

Ingus Bau?ķenieks - Jelgava - Spoki [Stroom] Latvia
The Mugris - A New Psychedelic Era - Gaviota On Acid [Discos Cet?ceos] Chile
Crazy Doberman - Set - Rust Clatter For The Midwest Sun [I Dischi Del Barone]
Dengue Dengue Dengue! -
Ayani Huni Kuin - Habu Raminbu (Dengue Dengue Dengue & Joutro Mundo Version) - Semillero [On The Corner] Peru
Glorias Navales -  El Blues de Istvan - Glorias Navales Presenta El Blues de Istvan [A Wave Press] Chile
 Lavender Flu - Distant Beings - Mow The Glass [In The Red]
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - It's Lonely In This World All Alone - S/T [Toxic State]
Tommy Jay & The General - Trapped Within My Life - Florida Songs [Feeding Tube]
Patois Counselors - Get Excitement - Proper Release [Ever/Never]
Pious Faults - Worship The Surface II - Old Thread [Feel It] Australia
Special Interest - Disco II - Spiraling   [Raw Sugar]
U.S. Girls - M.A.H. - In A Poem Unlimited [4AD]
Boy Harsher - Pain (edit) - Pain [Self-Released]
Richard Papiercuts - World And Not-World (Twisting The Night) -  Twisting The Night [Ever/Never]
Rodion G.A. - Nu Tu Vei Fi - Rozalia [Inversions] Romania
The Plastic People of the Universe - Pa?ijov? Hry Velikonočn? -[Live 1978] Czechoslovakia
Funkadelic - Wars of Armageddon - Maggot Brain [Westbound]

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Numismatic Coins

« on: December 29, 2018, 11:20:14 AM »

Nope, though somewhere I've got a container filled with all the loose foreign change I've come home with from traveling. Collecting money seems like a strange hobby to me, I've never even had a savings account.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 26, 2018, 11:41:01 AM »

Nisennenmondai - I've been absorbing most of their releases lately, which I stole off Soulseek since I'm back to using that again lately. Kinda bummed this band slipped past my radar for so long since they appeared to go inactive only in the past year. Their album on On U-Sound is really great, because of Sherwood's production, but everything they do is pretty spot on. It's got the minimalism of shit like ESG, but it's basically super minimal techno played on drums, bass and very delayed out guitar. Mostly a consistent bass drum and hi-hats with splashes of other cymbals, a no more than two note bass line that's more thud/thump than anything melodic and delayed pick scratches on guitar. Very krautrock feeling too. A lot better than it should be given the description, but shit's excellent.

I've also been exploring contemporary psychedelic cumbia from Peru that a friend has been turning me onto.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Nasty racist skinhead flicks...

« on: December 26, 2018, 11:31:25 AM »

I don't think there is a ton of difference between a movie like Romper Stomper and Suburbia in a way. Suburbia is a wholly depressing film, but it's also one of the most important pieces of punk cinema, and I'd question the credentials of anyone who wasn't impacted by that film in their youth. I still enjoy it. I really don't want to watch Romper Stomper again at this point, because there are aspects of it that I relate to, not the ideology, but the camaraderie and generally nihilistic behavior certainly rings familiar to me. The songs are catchy too. I'm not about to call out the film makers, but there seems to be something very irresponsible about producing a work like that. I wouldn't say the same about Suburbia, but, I guess ideology is really the main thing that differentiates the movies.

That NSU German History X series is probably the most interesting of all the works mentioned to me at this point. I saw it when Netflix first started running it, and it's an interesting story that I think is important also because of the fact that it illustrates how institutional racism of the police/gov't was what allowed those events to unfold in the way that they did.

I still haven't seen Green Room. Should I?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Nasty racist skinhead flicks...

« on: December 25, 2018, 06:48:14 PM »

There is a recent Serbian movie called Skinning about this. It?s supposed to be a cautionary tale, but like some of the above films, one could guess it does it?s share of inspiring as well.