Bored Games - Joe 90 (Flying Nun, 1982)
(Source: youtube.com)
England, come say hi if you’re around*
New Frustros tape on Muscle Horse will be ready for the tour, and 7” version a bit later. New Good Throb 7” available on said label.
*No Good Throb on the 19th + gig TBA on the 24th
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Lydia Lunch - rejected cover for Ratcharge 24
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This is next month!
FRUSTROS
GOOD THROB
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22/06/13, 8PM START
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3Earth people are just here, that’s all. They’re just concerned with eatin’ and sleepin’ and sex and dope and politics and religion and philosophy and they’re not concerned with anything else because they don’t see why it’s necessary. Whereas celestial beings see they can’t be chained to so-called depravity. Angels like their minds and spirits to take wings. They’re always movin’ forward. They’re artistically inclined. They find food in lookin’ at a picture or they find food in hearin’ a beautiful song or a beautiful poem or lookin’ at a beautiful dance or just seein’ a person smile. They find food in that. But Earth people, they just find food in food.
From Sun Ra interview in Ratcharge 25 (reprinted from Downbeat mag)
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Ratcharge 23 backcover - Sun Ra
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88W: It’s from this weird Cuban legend where the native Americans that were living there were being invaded by the Spanish, and they knew they didn’t have a chance, so they gorged themselves with the soil and dirt, so that the Spanish could never take them alive no matter what. It kinda just connected to how I feel with politics - I feel really shitty about all the shit that’s going on in this country, and I feel kinda helpless with how shitty everything is, but I don’t wanna give in. And you gotta find an alternate way.
S: To me that song is just all about the futility of being a part of something that you have no fucking control over. It’s kinda like you wake up every day, and you have no control of what the country that “represents” you is doing. On a bigger scale, but also on a smaller scale, just being totally fucking discontent with every day life and your surroundings. But, you still wake up the next day and do your thing. You wake up and you’re like, this place wasn’t for me, I wasn’t supposed to be here, and I’ll be dead soon.
W: Ha, yeah, that is definitely one of the more serious songs.
H: All of our songs are serious.
E: Yeah theres no like, funny shit.
From Crazy Spirit interview (by Shiva Addanki) in Ratcharge 23
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“Let’s make punk shitty again” (2009)
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13The two-minute, three-chord punk song has become a trope that has possibly outlasted its historical utility as a piece of rebellion, but in 1977 to play inept, simplistic, stupid music was to react violently to the pervasive music of the day. Punks did not play that way because they were stupid. They played that way because they thought mainstream rock was stupid (they were right!), self-indulgent, and soporific. They wanted to reinvigorate pop music, and they might have succeeded for one shining instant before the mechanisms of recuperation began their work. Today, being stupid continues to be the mainstream’s primary mode in music, but I must say that anti-intellectualism is rabid in general, and it has so infected every aspect of American culture that even punks have signed on. They don’t even know why they do it other than that they convince themselves that they do so because punk was once anti-intellectual. Turning punk into religion, they adhere strictly to that dogma. The irony, of course, is that punks also think that they are being rebellious in doing so, when, in fact, I would argue, they are ensuring the maintenance of the status quo (in various realms both within and outside music). I’m sure some readers of this will scoff at this accusation, but, hey, ideology’s a bitch, right? Sure I love the two-minute, three-chord (or less) punk song, but I also have listened to enough punk to know that this is a stereotype used to demean punk. We can take it in stride because we have a sense of humor, right? Well, until we start believing this stereotype and it starts to ruin punk—something that happened almost immediately (read any history of early Los Angeles punk for proof) and continues to happen to this day.
From Stuart Schrader/ Shit-fi interview - 2009 - in Ratcharge 18 (reprinted in English in #19)
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(Source: punkdrawings, via ratatat-tat)
Ratcharge 18 cover by Nagawika. “It’s been three hours I’m listening to this B side and it’s still the first song”.
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10Punk in 2013 is obsessed with nostalgia perpetuated by festivals where if you pay enough for a 6 day all inclusive pass and book your flights and hotel rooms in time you can see any punk band that ever existed, albeit older and uglier and with their “classic hits” funneled through a fancy sound system manned by the shitty sound guy employee of whatever club or productions company is “making punk happen” at the moment. Way too many current bands exist mostly in the hopes of playing these festivals, or of “taking the next step” and putting out records on a larger “indie” label. (…) We are happy when we hear about punks playing generator shows and blowing up abandoned cars at abandoned strip malls in New Orleans or flipping cars and shooting fireworks at cops in Boston.
From a Gas Rag interview in an upcoming MRR column.
(Source: punkdrawings, via the-idiots-have-taken-over)
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