good guys FIF
"So to sum it up, don’t be a fucking idiot and bypass White Metal because you don’t like what they’re saying because guaran-damn-teed you will miss out on some critically great stuff due to blind ignorance and…fear."
RIP Loukanikos (~2004-2014)
"Jak Kerley tells us his personal story of meeting and befriending Erik Petersen, and instantly falling in love with Mischief Brew's music. Rest in peace, Erik!"
Daniel Johnston died today. I like this story about the time Dylan Pyles met him.
24/7 streaming ska music.
Mustard Plug on the PBS Backstage Pass show in 2014.
"for the more lonely children of the revolution, who like their politics with a healthy dose of nihilism that alternately destroys and loves itself and the world."
list of folk punk bands on r/folkpunk
"Almost all of the popular evangelical songs that incorporate the Magnificat stop after the first few verses"
Of course there is the Psalters version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8VoWX2238
"A 1990s pop hit reveals how the Adams feel about capitalism."
This article by Aaron Lake Smith was one of the first I read on Jacobin, and still one of my favorites.
"There’s that song, the one about getting knocked down and then getting back up again, but their body of work is like an iceberg; the bulk of it is submerged below the surface, difficult to get a hold of."
I came across this old archived vivalavinyl thread. I learned that even people who hated folk punk in 2005 still liked Erik Petersen and Defiance, Ohio.
An album of songs by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain as recorded by various folk punk musicians.
I'm a fan of Mischief Brew and Erik Petersen, and I just discovered this tribute to his life and music. From the video description:
"Opening with Stan Rogers' The Mary Ellen Carter, The Folks Show on 88.5 WXPN invited the friends and family of Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew to the show to play some covers pay tribute to him. Show opens at around the four minute mark. Songs are interspersed with reminiscing, talk of inspirations, and exactly what you'd expect from this kind of thing.
"Hosted by Ian Zolitor; also present are Erik's partner Denise, his brother Chris, bandmate Shawn, and others."
“Elvis was trying to steal the music of the black churches in his songs. So, I decided to steal it back.”
A song about living in the USA.
Just discovered this anarchist folk punk duo.
This is an anarcho-capitalist rap metal group. Politics aside, I like them better than RATM. See also this interview with the frontman by Reason: http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/20/meet-eric-july/
It's still good.
Full album of Mischief Brew's "Thanks, Bastards!" demo on Youtube.
The latest Harley Poe album is best Harley Poe album.
A Fistful Of Vinyl on KXLU recorded Pat The Bunny singing some songs and put them on youtube! The whole set is good. I think my favorite is the one after this one. But this one is pretty good too.
I need to find some time to add a few names to this list
"This is what happens when you call the cops"
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!
Those silly utopian socialists.
Ha. I had no idea Grooveshark depends on DMCA's safe harbour provisions. I assumed they had some sort of clever licensing scheme worked out with music publishers.
The best retrospective on Chumbawamba I've ever read.
Internet Archive audio collection of some oldtimey IWW songs.
Laura Jane Grace gives the backstory to Against Me!'s song “I Was a Teenage Anarchist”
Larry Norman’s ‘666’ was the NPR song of the day June 5, 2008
Rap song with great lyrics: “No one is illegal / We’re all people / We’re all equal / No borders / No fences / No nations / No prisons / No deportations”
Riot Folk song by Ryan Harvey
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“Music has changed in a generation — the bands, the industry. Oh, and me”
A nice post by the Rustbelt Radical sampling some of the music that has come out of the Occupy movement.
An English interview with some members of Pussy Riot, an anti-Putin, feminist-punk, Russian performance group. In Feburary several [alleged] members were arrested after the group performed a "punk prayer" in a Russian Orthodox church. Three members were convicted of "hooliganism" for the act and sentenced to two years imprisonment.