Category: music

+ Fea, Gender Chores, Helen Oyeyemi, misogyny, Mr. Fox, music, punk

Misogyny and Violence in Helen Oyeyemi’s “Mr. Fox”

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Like me, my wife enjoys reading, and her birthday is December 21. Her birthday’s proximity to Christmas always makes it a challenge to get her something, notably because she always says, “I don’t want anything because we need to save uo for Christmas.” A few months ago, I came across someone on social media who talked about a birthday present they bought for their … Read More Misogyny and Violence in Helen Oyeyemi’s “Mr. Fox”

+ Danny Nedelko, immigration, music, The Idles, Thomas Paine

Fear Leads to Hate! Will You be a Sycophant or Resist?

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Over the past couple of weeks, starting with the news of Rachel Nicole Good’s murder and continuing to the current protests against ICE and the ruling of medical examiner in Texas that ruled that Gerald Lunas Campos, detained at an ICE facility in Texas, was murdered by a guard who performed a chokehold on him, I’ve been listening, on repeat, songs such as the Idles’ … Read More Fear Leads to Hate! Will You be a Sycophant or Resist?

+ alice in chains, Foo Fighters, hardcore punk, hum, music, MXPX, punk, team dresch

Some of the Most Influential Albums from 1995! Part II

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I vividly remember being at church one night in 1995, probably a Wednesday, and seeing a poster on the wall with Christian music artists. The poster was one of those that said, “If you like X then you’ll like Y.” Since, over the previous year, I dove into punk rock with the explosion of Rancid, Green Day, Offspring, and NOFX, I immediately searched for … Read More Some of the Most Influential Albums from 1995! Part II

+ Hayden, music, punk, radiohead, Rancid, sunny day real estate

Some of the Most Influential Albums from 1995! Part I

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We all know that nostalgia is a hell of a drug, especially as we get older. In our progression towards succumbing to death, we constantly look backwards, finding comfort and solace in the past. Most of the time, we fail to interrogate that past, choosing instead to look at it through rose colored glasses, hoping to recapture some long lost reality that, in all … Read More Some of the Most Influential Albums from 1995! Part I

+ american history, art, dead kennedys, hardcore punk, history, music, politics, punk

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

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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”

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