Recommended Reading

10/26/2014

 "'lo-fi' is not itself a sound, but rather...what audiences interpret as a raw, noisy, or low-fidelity sound is relative to their culture of listening": LOL 

09/06/2014

US policing and US empire grew up together. 

06/27/2014

Smart analysis of Black Flag and the political economy of hardcore punk at the dawn of the Reagan era 

06/06/2014

New interview with Teo Hernández 

06/02/2014

Pervers / Deutscher Abschaum: German DIY, on the awesome One Chord blog

04/30/2014

Compendious catalog of Latino participation in classic NYHC, undoing some inherited presumptions about the whiteness of all 80s hardcore  

04/23/2014

Perhaps the absolute best piece of music writing I've read 

04/06/2014

The story of Hungarian punks CpG, who were imprisoned for their punk provocations.

03/25/2014

Excellent obituary of Lou Reed in Radical Philosophy 

03/09/2014

Asking questions about urban transformations, economic shifts, and the rise of punk rock, by radical theorist Andy Merrifield

01/22/2014

In print, in MRR, incredible interview w/ Dezerter 

01/12/2014

UK National Archives releases original government documents about Crass's Thatcher-Reagan nuclear war hoax

12/20/2013

Comments on Puke Spit and Guts youtube videos

09/05/2013

Remarkably good article on Discharge, spanning distance from best band ever to worst disappointment ever

07/11/2013

Looking at Detroit's Death through the lens of working-class black history