Prophet and provocateur IAN SVENONIUS, the writer of books THE PSYCHIC SOVIET and CENSORSHIP NOW!!, who runs the cynic rock and roll band CHAIN & THE GANG,

in 1990 he was chosen „the most perfect boyfriend material” and got the title „SASSIEST BOY OF AMERICA” by teen girl mag Sassy, next year his Washington DC hc-punk band THE NATION OF ULYSSES released its debut album 13-POINT PROGRAM TO DESTROY AMERICA.

Later he tried to flee marketing culture with his psychedelic gospel group THE MAKE-UP. During their way they were hunted by mysterious government agencies as you can watch it in their film Blue Is Beautiful.

Now this sassiest boy introduces you to the art of ESCAPE-ISM with his brand new poetic one-man rock and roll show and album. This full show was shot in the Hungarian town Szeged this summer at JAZZ KOCSMA somewhere around Mullholland Drive

The album INTRODUCTION TO ESCAPE-ISM

will be released in November on Merge Records (US)

USA + EU TOUR OCT/NOV/DEC UK, Amsterdam, FRANCE, Munich, ITALY

London 18/11  Manchester 19/11  Glasgow 20/11  Nottingham 21/11

An unorthodox punk band from Washington, D.C.

PRIESTS

fusing no wave pop hc punk indie rock anarcho funk.

Some names from my notes: Lydia Lunch + Fugazi + Dead Kennedys + Joy Division/New Order + Dog Faced Hermans.

Debut album Nothing Feels Natural OUT NOW on Sister Polygon Records (US).

Euro tour May-June UK, NL, Bel, Fr, Sp, Lux, Ger, DK.

They say: So here is something funny about the signing of the US constitution: There were 55 people who signed it, they were all rich white men. 15 of them owned other people who were forced to do work for them in order to survive, called “slaves”. All 55 of these white men owned land. If you were not a wealthy white man who owned people or land you were definitely not invited to decide what this new country was going to be about. (…) This place was born on a selfish lie. There is nothing to salvage, no great ideals that just got a little skewed. (…) When people defend the USA I think of Stockholm Syndrome. (… So) the first step is knowing, understanding, that this country was not made for you, and it is built on lies and murder.

But in the reality just 39 delegates signed it from the 55, and not 15 rather 25 were slave-owners. At that time the states predominantly limited the voting right to property-owning or tax-paying white males. So they were the people.

But I do not believe that the low-qualified poor would be so honest, unselfish, brave and so on. They just would do the same thing, or worse. Trump and Brexit have come by them.

DD OWEN is Drew Owen from punk band Sick Thoughts (Goner, Slovenly, Goodbye Boozy Records) armed with keyboard, guitar and pedals. A Wizzard Sleeve and a Gary Wrong cover on his brand new single

on Windian Records‘ subscription series (US)

Also a new Sick Thoughts single on Goner Records (US)

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There was an electro-industrial band Musumeci in Torino in the 80s with some side-projects and a cassette label, Der Zeltweg.
A selection of the 1982-1984 side projects Errata-S-Corrige, Gasdehyde and Herpes-Z

on Mannequin Records (Germany)

about himself
„songwriter punk skater poser”
„TRASH POET SONGWRITER”

1-1 single by Urinal Cake and Windian Records, and an album on Burger Records

Chicken Woman The Love That You Own I Feel Like a Sad Clown

& another good news, the new Golden Boys album is under work

JWC’s bandcamp

Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat) and photographer Glen E. Friedman on the images in ‘My Rules’

Photographer Glen E. Friedman has a new book out in September, ‘My Rules,’ which represents some 30 years and 7 pounds of gorgeous hardcore, hiphop, and skateboarding history. He got together with his old friend Ian MacKaye at Dischord House just outside of Washington D.C. to discuss some of the photographs in Glen’s forthcoming book. (via boingboing)