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Better Late than Never + Show Reviews
Cat Vet, Philadelphia, PaMy friend Jesse has wanted to be in a band for as long as I can remember and she finally did it with CAT VET, this new all-girl band out of Philly. It's so cool seeing your...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Five folks who put on all-ages punk shows around town got together a few months ago to talk about creating a permanent all-ages venue in New Orleans, where we live. We are all in bands and we all book...
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Follow Up to "Don't Punch Me"
A couple of months ago I wrote a column about physical violence at underage punk shows in New Orleans. I had so many thoughts about what was going on and about how to address violence in our...
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Black Consumerism
SS zine was always supposed to be a response or alternative to mainstream black hip-hop culture and black consumerism, but I'm not sure I ever made that as clear as I wanted to. It was only in going...
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BLACK OUTLAWS, EXAMPLE #1
In the van on tour with the People of Color Zine Project RACE RIOT! Tour, Mimi Nguyen (editor of the historically important "Evolution of a Race Riot" zine) went through the list of things she found...
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BLACK OUTLAWS, EXAMPLE #2
In school, I learned about black people as an oppressed people and that's it. Black people as slaves, maybe one line about The Reconstruction Period (in which black folks made impressive strides...
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Radical Anti-Racist Racism (or "Rarrrrrrr!!!")
Okay, me and a friend of mine, Takiaya, were having this conversation that I wanted to share with other people in the hopes that it may prevent confusion or at least alleviate it a bit. We were...
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Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground
HR of Bad Brains at Hard Art Gallery by Lucian PerkinsI've sung the praises of Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground (79-85) before and I'm gonna do it again. Right now....
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Pay It No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. JohnsonBlack & white version of Andy Warhol Polaroid"I was no one, nobody, from Nowheresville until I became a drag queen. That's what made me in New York, that's what made me in New...
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Ode to Roctober
Neon Leon with Honi O'Rourkefrom "Neon Leon: Alive and Well" by James Porter, Roctober #40I first became aware of Roctober in the early 2000s as a young black punk searching the world wide web for my...
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A World of Her Own: An Interview with Mydolls
Printed in Maximum RockNRoll #356 January 2013, ANTIGRAVITY October 2012 and Fix My Head #4 June 2013Mydolls are a Houston punk band who began playing shows in the late 1970s. They were an important...
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Taquila Mockingbird: The Queen Behind the Scene
A young Taquila MockingbirdThis is the only interview I've ever done that left me wanting to ask so many more questions. Taquila Mockingbird is a Rennaissance woman of sorts and when I found out about...
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Stand Up or Die: An Interview with Golnar Nikpour
Golnar Nikpour is one of the individuals I credit with helping Maximum RockNRoll evolve from a white male dominated hardcore zine to the more inclusive, feminist leaning punk/hc zine it's become today....
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Almost Ready: The Story of Punk Rock in New Orleans
An Interview with Director Al ChampagnePrinted in Antigravity December 2013 and Maximum RocknRoll #370Normals show on Frenchmen St.by Osa AtoeI could ask a million different people how they found out...
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No Pity for Boredom: An Interview with Downtown Boys
Printed in Antigravity July 2014.Remember the days when punk bands sang with conviction about everything that wasn’t right with the world? Corporate exploitation of land and people, poverty, shitty...
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Where to Find Shotgun Seamstress Zine & Book!
Shotgun Seamstress began as a photocopy zine in 2006. I called it a zine by and for black punks, queers, feminists, activists, artists & musicians. Each issue featured interviews, articles and a...
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Kids Doing the Noise-Making Thing: Marc Edwards of Cellular Chaos
photo by Michael DentMarc Edwards embodies all of the ideas Shotgun Seamstress zine ever meant to convey. I generally focus on punk rock in my zines and blog but I also try as hard as I can to broaden...
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Buy Shotgun Seamstress Zine Collection and Support the Movement!
Like most people who make things, I tend to be self-deprecating about my work. At times, I think that being black and worrying about your alternative self-expression is an exercise in privilege. Like,...
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I Will Resist With Every Inch and Every Breath: Punk and the Art of Feminism
Me, Osa Atoe by David EnsmingerThis is the talk I gave on a recent panel I was asked to participate in at the Brooklyn Museum Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, along with Astria Suparak...
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The Best of Black Punk Rock, in My Humble Opinion
Hello! There is so much going on in the world of black punk rock these days! I wanted to share with you a handful of bands that I've felt compelled to listen to over and over again, that feature at...
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There Are No White Doves in My Neighborhood: Chicago’s Black & Brown Punk Shows
An Interview with Monika Estrella NegraMonika (left) and Donte, BNB organizersMonika moved to Chicago from Milwaukee in 2009 and soon became enmeshed in one of the country’s largest, most diverse and...
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I finally made it out to Pensacola Beach a couple weeks ago for the first time since the oil spill. The closer I got to the beach, the bigger the lump got in my throat and when I got there, all I could...
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There's this really bizarre phenomenon happening in the New Orleans underage punk scene right now. Me and my friend Candice found out about this local band called Vapo-Rats. They are an old-school...
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Motherhood, No Enclosures, Firebrand
Stag Bitten by Nathan Backous1. MotherhoodI set up a zine release party in Portland on the first night after the Portland Zine Symposium and got four bands full of brown punks to play. My Parade and...
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Everyone's different, so not everyone's going to agree about whether feminism is still relevant or necessary. I mean, if you're a middle class, college educated white lady with a sensitive white guy...
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