Category: hardcore punk

The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reading some books from the 33 1/3 series, specifically Nick Attfield’s on Dinosaur Jr.’s 1987 album You’re Living All Over Me and Michael Stewart Foley’s on Dead Kennedys’ 1980 album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. Each has been thoroughly engaging, and Attfield’s writing serves, in a lot ways, as a master class on writing about music while Foley’s does an … Read More The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

Speaking Truth to Power: Robert Fitzgerald’s “Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan”

Shut up, put one in the air’Cause when I get it, I get it out everywhereServing and slinging, I’m not sitting scaredElites don’t fight fair, I got no time to care40 years of Reaganomics, n****, this what we getN****, it is what it is, the world in service and shitDeliver food we spit in, can’t even cook for they kidsYo, my n**** stay flipping … Read More Speaking Truth to Power: Robert Fitzgerald’s “Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan”