Featuring interviews with Hallie Bulleit (Unlovables), Dan Yemin (Paint It Black, Kid Dynamite), and Grant Lawrence (The Smugglers) (Originally titled: Live Slow, Die Old: Punk Rock and Exercise)
Featuring interviews with Hallie Bulleit (Unlovables), Dan Yemin (Paint It Black, Kid Dynamite), and Grant Lawrence (The Smugglers) (Originally titled: Live Slow, Die Old: Punk Rock and Exercise)
In which I try to always be a better parent than Velma Von Tussle.
What happens when a forty-one-year-old mother of two has a potentially hilarious mid-life crisis?
How the citizens of Canada lost their collective mind over the imminent demise of a band you’ve probably never heard of.
As a bit of a soundtrack to my Razorcake article about punk rockers who exercise, this is a collection of my favorite music to run to.
Ottawa has a bad reputation for being a boring, government town, but I've lived here for over a decade now and the music scene has been pretty steadily awesome.
Highlights include Jennifer Whiteford looking into the connection between punk rock, and good exercise, talking to members of Paint It Black, The Unlovables, and The Smugglers.
Todd Taylor reads Shirley Wins and Jennifer Whiteford talks about Grrrl, A Novel.
“It’s like glasses that you put on when you’re a kid and you keep them for your whole life. We know we’re not gonna be rich and famous, but we’re not doing it for that.” –Litige
The Warriors are East Los Angeles’s least Chicano, most important, exceedingly groundbreaking, and utmost implausible of unsung hero bands; yet their core, side, and guest members (and punk trainees) read like a biblical “who’s who” list of their more famous posterities hailing from east of the bridges that separate the eastside from the rest of Los Angeles.
“I was there at the birth of hardcore and documented that scene... I was two, three, four feet away from all these people.” –Edward Colver
“The trends may come in waves, consuming the inexperienced, but authenticity was there the whole time. Calm, collected, sitting on the beach with a boombox and a cooler, watching the show.” –Daryl