Archive for the 'hardcore' Category
And Now, Some Hardcore
Cro-Mags, “World Peace Can’t Be Done”
Agnostic Front, “The Eliminator”
Cro-Mags, “We Gotta Know”
Read More..>>MDC
holy shit.
Read More..>>9 Shocks Terror
Via the always hip Timmy Dirt, some fucking AWESOME live hardcore from Cleveland.
9 Shocks Terror
With some SWEET technical difficulties.
Total F-ing Destruction
I went for The Freeze, but the best band of the night was Total Fucking Destruction. I’m not usually into the really grindy hardcore, but these guys were amazing. The drummer was particularly awesome to watch: he got an impossibly enormous sound out of an impossibly tiny kit that included only a kick, [...]
Read More..>>FOD: Tonight
Flag of Democracy
What I’ve been needing since Sam left is a good hardcore or metal show. And tonight I’ll be seeing Flag of Democracy (above) along with the Freeze, from Boston.
The Freeze
Read More..>>Open Letter to the Democrat Party
Sirs and Madams:
You will note that I refer to you using the pejorative “Democrat Party”: given your recent votes to condemn political speech and citizens’ advocacy, it is clear there is nothing democratic at all about your party.
Sometimes a poem or song more effectively communicates emotion better than simple prose. I would like to offer [...]
If Anyone has Glenn Greenwald’s Mailing Address, I Owe Him a Kewpie Doll
Glenn Greenwald just took the giant sledge hammer, and DING DING DING went the bell.
For the past several months, Congress’ approval ratings have been as low as, and often lower than, George Bush’s unprecedentedly low ratings. Various media pundits and right-wing advocates use this fact constantly to insinuate that Bush is not uniquely unpopular [...]
Hardcore
DRI live in 1984, doing more hardcore tunes in 4 minutes than I can keep track of.
When people wonder why I didn’t really care about Nirvana and Pearl Jam, DRI is a pretty good explanation. These guys are kind of emblematic of early 80s hardcore: out of control speed, lyrics boiling over with spitting fury [...]
For Doug, George, Dick, and the Boys
Dead Kennedys, When Ya Get Drafted
Not much of a video I’m afraid, but a good song nonetheless.
Friday Videos: DRI
When I was 15, I got my hands on Tim Kelly’s copy of “Dealing With It” by the legendary Texas Hardcore band, DRI (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles). I never returned it, and it’s still in my collection (sorry Stu).
DRI was (is) an incredibly anti-government, anti-authoritarian band, a real example of the hyper-political 1980s hardcore movement. [...]
