What are you listening to ?

they finally got the early shonen knife albums on spotify, so those until my headphones started bugging my ears.
 
Listening to some of my teenage years music - punk and Oi!

Blitz - listened to Voice of a Generation album the other night. I’ve played the shut out of this record for almost 40 years.
UK Subs - Endangered Species from 1982. Such a good record.
Friday night my wife and i listened to one of the early No Future compilations from 82 or 83. (I still have it on red vinyl)

I must be having a mid life crisis.
 
R.I.P., Greg Tate

:rose:

December 7, 2021

In grappling with the Black hardcore band Bad Brains in The Village Voice, Tate writes:

You say you want hardcore? I say the Brains'll give you hardcore coming straight up
the ass, buddy. I'm talking about like lobotomy by jackhammer, like a whirlpool bath
in a cement mixer, like orthodontic surgery by Black & Decker, like making love to
a buzzsaw, baby. Meaning that coming from a black perspective, jazz it ain't,
funk it ain't hardly, and they'll probably never open for Dick Dames or Primps.
Even though three white acts they did open for, Butch Tarantulas, Hang All Four,
and the Cash, is all knee-deeper into black street ridims than the Brains ever been
and ain't that a bitch?

Greg Tate was born on Oct. 15, 1957. He spent his teenage years in Washington,D.C.,
where he first got interested in music. Upon moving to New York City, he co-founded
the Black Rock Coalition, which existed to push back against stereotypes of Black
artists.

After (Village) Voice, Tate would go on to write for a variety of different media outlets—
Rolling Stone, the BBC, Down Beat and more.


"James Baldwin said, 'To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious
is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time,'" wrote Tate. "But what he
didn't say was that, on a good day, it is mostly a sublimated state of rage since folk
got bills to pay and sanity to keep."

- NPR

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1062137384/greg-tate-music-critic-author-journalist-dead
 
MERZBOW!!!

(just kidding. I only post his stuff to annoy the blatant trolls who start threads about stupid shit.)

I'm actually listening to Metallica at the moment... OLD Metallica though. The 80's stuff.
 
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