If anyone here hasnt not heard of this books existence yet, than now is the time to pay attention.
Radio Silence - A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music, by Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo, was released very recently and I want to take this moment to let all of you know that it is thus far the definitive hardcore book in existence. It is chock full of amazing photographs, album art and tees and is presented in a very slick style that is reminiscent of the similarly awesome Banned In DC book.
Peppered throughout the pages are ruminations, stories and ideas as told by the people that were involved when this was all going down. You can hear Adam Nathanson (Born Against) talk about the Sick Of It All debate and how he flier bombed a SOIA show. You can hear Sean Brown talk about his time in Swiz, Matt Anderson (Heroin) and Jeff Winterberg (Antioch Arrow) discuss the San Diego scene and the rules that arose as a way to present themselves.
There are so many great photos from so many time periods including amazing shots of the NYHC shows in the mid to late 80's, early DC hardcore, mid 90's new school hardcore and revival bands and of course the previously mentioned San Diego scene of the early 90's.
Click the cover above and head to amazon to purchase the book for a very good price. Trust me. This is highly worth having in your personal library. I received my copy a few weeks ago and recently brought it upstate with me to a weekend in the woods and my friends Glenn (who has a number of photos in the book), Steve, Joe and Chris repeatedly perused its awesome pages.
Check these images for a little taste. They all blow up bigger if you view the image.
For those of you in NYC and the surrounding areas, there are two nights of openings going on. There is a release party TONIGHT! with Mind Eraser playing and music and free beer. Tomorrow there is a gallery opening, also with free beer, and blow ups of photos from the book. I will definitely be at the gallery opening on saturday, so come by, pay your respects to a movement that has most definitely shaped a little bit of all of us. And say hi to me too! ^_^
There are also some openings going on in the Los Angeles area, so head to the Radio Silence site and check out all the info and other interesting things that they have going on there.
But first and foremost, consider purchasing this book. You wont regret it. » taken from: Zen and the Art of Face Punching]]>
In Youngstown, fewer things get finer than this recording by the Death Crazed Teenage Superheroes. This is a lo-fi excursion into garage rock that many bands try to do, but with no great success. These failed attempts at bands are filled with musicians (or lesser) and all are under delusion of their own fame and self proclaimed tortured existence. This is not the case with Death Crazed... at all.
In Youngstown, there's little hope of living a life that doesn't get beyond the steel-gray clouds that hang low over the city. Music like this happens in Youngstown. Borne of of poverty and limited options of were to go and what to do with the time that feels more like a jail sentence than it does anything else.
This is the first EP from Death Crazed Teenage Superheroes. It's title, though a little long, 5 and a Half Tell Tale Signs You'll End Up Like Your Mother...OMNIPOTENT STRENGTH! EP, but is perfect as it emanates the ideas of the three men involved in this project; Chris Splain, Brendan Gaunter and Dennis Thomas.
I am not really in the mood to review this, at the moment. I just wanted to draw your attention to it and tell you where you can download it, as it is a download only release. And I wanted to tell you that after you download this to go to their show this Saturday at Cedars Cafe in Downtown Youngstown.
Oct 4 2008 10PM Cedars w/Rosehips and Church of the Red Museum Youngstown, Ohio
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