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Razorcake Podcast #844 with Christian Valles

Everything is set to savory, bitter, and savory love song music.

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Jack Curran 1967-2023 by James Tracy

Jack Curran, beloved musician, filmmaker, and friend passed away on September 9, 2023 in Aberdeen, Wash. He was fifty-six years old. In 1988, he formed the band Fifteen with guitarist and vocalist Jeff Ott.

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Webcomic #594 by Silas Haglund

Scope more of Silas' art here! /// Do you or your friends make webcomics that would fit well here at Razorcake? Send an email (and comics or links to comics) to our editors: [email protected] or [email protected]

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Razorcake 136, featuring Mick Collins (Part 1), Shizu Saldamando, Vacation, Katie Thornton, and Terminal A

“The Gories just eliminated all of the crust from the intervening years and went back to the first sources and said, ‘Well, we’re gonna start here.’” –Mick Collins

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Chris Chappell Photo Column—Bev Rage And The Drinks

Punk rock and drag share an anti-authority spirit and similar counterculture roots, but few make the connection as explicitly obvious and entertaining as Chicago’s Bev Rage And The Drinks. They combine the charisma, nerve, and pageantry of drag with driving garage punk.

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Cramps and the Mutants, The: The Napa State Tapes: Blu-ray.

Video artist Joe Rees, along with some friends and artists, formed Target Video in the early ’70s. Among many video projects, the group documented bands during the early years of the rise of punk, including many you had little chance of seeing in other contexts, like Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, and The Minutemen. But no […]

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Subterranea: DVD

Subterranea begins with a (gas)masked narrator surveying and commenting on a post-apocalyptic landscape. The monologue delivered—about consumerism and its impact—is appropriately creepy, with jump cuts to scenes of carnage and infernos. The whole thing has a Clockwork Orange vibe, and its gritty immediacy reminded me of the great film Series 7: The Contenders. The way […]

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Demons: Bloodlust By Hyena Hell, 120 pgs.

This is the third book in the series of “Demons” comics by Hyena Hell. The first one, No Romance in Hell, I reviewed for Razorcake back in 2020. It’s about a gooney demon named Bug who is fed up with the romance with the assholes in hell and she decides to check out what kind […]

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Fever House By Keith Rosson, 448 pgs.

For those unfamiliar with the author (and Razorcake contributor) Keith Rosson, the best way to describe his writing is it’s what would happen if Stephen King and Philip K. Dick had a baby that grew up to have exceptional writing talent influenced by his fathers. Rosson’s latest, Fever House, is his fifth and heftiest novel.  The book begins with […]

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Girl Juice By Benji Nate, 190 pgs.

Your housemates can either become your best friends, your worst enemies, or your best friends who you end up despising fifty percent of the time. You typically avoid them at home while you try to live your own life. Until one of them interrupts your day-to-day life by having their multiple boyfriends on the floor […]

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How Much Art Can You Take? Interviews by Nancy Barile, 190 pgs.

When I was growing up outside of pre-internet Boston, I heard about SS Decontrol through fanzines (mostly Al Quint’s Suburban Voice). They were the first hardcore band from Boston, heavy into straightedge. All these rumors swirled around the band: they travelled in a windowless van from city to city, playing shows, smacking drinks out of […]

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It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History By Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, & Erin Yanke, 304 pgs.

This is a striking account of grassroots and uncompromising antiracist activism, mostly in Portland, Ore. from the 1980s and ’90s. Made up largely of interview material with the participants, it’s a whirlwind of different perspectives, with decades of hindsight. As someone who grew up involved with hardcore, punk, and metal scenes in and around Cleveland, […]

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