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Why bother?
In my involvement in the hardcore punk scene - as consumer, spectator, active participant and, lately and most constructively, aged curmudgeon carping from the sidelines - I've accumulated a LOT of...
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Shank, Live in LA, 2003
Shank, Live in LA, 2003 from Jamie Thomson on Vimeo.Been meaning to get this up on the web in some form for years - because it really was the highlight of our existence as a band. We thought Gilman St...
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I guess this is a bit of cheat, as I have nothing to do with this band other than they are my friends - but I feel my life in HC is inextricably linked with these dudes. I've known Devon and Craig for...
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Degraded in Chelsea: my DJing stint at the American Hardcore 1978-90 exhibition
'Yes, but how much can you take'... DJing at the American Hardcore show“Welcome to the final nail in hardcore’s coffin,” was how I greeted my friends who stopped by to say hello. Sweaty and harassed,...
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How The Process destroyed hardcore in Oakland FOREVER!
The calm before the stormSo I had the pleasure of hosting Alicia and B. from Replica (Great band. Check them out.) earlier this week, and Alicia passed on to me a thoroughly entertaining piece of...
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Bl'ast on Discharge's grave in the new world
If you haven't already read this appraisal of Discharge's fall from grace in 1986, do so. It's a pretty entertaining and well-researched read (if a little short on actual new information), but the real...
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The Top 10(ish) gigs I've missed
A six-week period of enforced immobility due to an ankle injury that has baffled (or bored) medical science reached its nadir last week, when - in the space of two days - I managed to miss gigs by...
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Poison Idea, Ian MacKaye and that record cover: an interview with Kalv of In...
'By using my name, P.I. themselves have elevated me to a god. Surely no one would treat a human being like that' Ian MacKaye, July 23, 1989.It's with those words – in that pointed, gnomic tone familiar...
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