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A World of Her Own: An Interview with Mydolls 18 May 2013 | 10:34 am
Printed in Maximum RockNRoll #356 January 2013, ANTIGRAVITY October 2012 and Fix My Head #4 June 2013 Mydolls are a Houston punk band who began playing shows in the late 1970s. They were an important...
Punk Rock Will Never Diet: An Interview with Ally from The Atomic Tanlines 12 Nov 2012 | 08:13 pm
Allyssa Lowe is the lead singer of The Atomic Tanlines from Denton, Texas. We met about a month ago in New Orleans during Endless Gaycation Queer Music & Arts Festival. Normally, Atomic Tanlines are ...
Ode to Roctober 6 Nov 2012 | 08:24 pm
Neon Leon with Honi O'Rourke from "Neon Leon: Alive and Well" by James Porter, Roctober #40 I first became aware of Roctober in the early 2000s as a young black punk searching the world wide web for ...
Pay It No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson 29 Oct 2012 | 06:01 pm
Marsha P. Johnson Black & white version of Andy Warhol Polaroid "I was no one, nobody, from Nowheresville until I became a drag queen. That's what made me in New York, that's what made me in New Jer...
Motherhood, No Enclosures, Firebrand 22 Oct 2012 | 09:11 pm
Stag Bitten by Nathan Backous 1. Motherhood I set up a zine release party in Portland on the first night after the Portland Zine Symposium and got four bands full of brown punks to play. My Parade a...
Better Late than Never + Show Reviews 22 Oct 2012 | 09:11 pm
Cat Vet, Philadelphia, Pa My friend Jesse has wanted to be in a band for as long as I can remember and she finally did it with CAT VET, this new all-girl band out of Philly. It's so cool seeing your ...
Radical Anti-Racist Racism (or "Rarrrrrrr!!!") 22 Oct 2012 | 08:07 pm
Okay, me and a friend of mine, Takiaya, were having this conversation that I wanted to share with other people in the hopes that it may prevent confusion or at least alleviate it a bit. We were talki...
Banned in DC 22 Oct 2012 | 06:43 pm
HR of Bad Brains at Hard Art Gallery by Lucian Perkins I've sung the praises of Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground (79-85) before and I'm gonna do it again. Right now. ...
BLACK OUTLAWS, EXAMPLE #2 21 Oct 2012 | 02:33 am
In school, I learned about black people as an oppressed people and that's it. Black people as slaves, maybe one line about The Reconstruction period (in which black folks made impressive strides socia...
BLACK OUTLAWS, EXAMPLE #1 21 Oct 2012 | 01:38 am
In the van on tour with the People of Color Zine Project RACE RIOT! Tour, Mimi Nguyen (editor of the historically important "Evolution of a Race Riot" zine) went through the list of things she found n...
