The Observatory

The Tonight We Unite Tour's last show, August 5, just added Narcoleptic Youth to the list of bands playing!

Tonight We Unite Tour

The Tonight We Unite Tour will conclude this Sunday, August 5, at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California! So if you missed out on the first few shows earlier in the tour. Check them out at their final stop!

Upcoming July Shows

Also on July 6th Leftover Crack performs at the Observatory in Santa Ana!

Lower Class Brats

Lower Class Brats new album, Rock 'N' Roll Street Noize, is available now! Here is a video of one of the six songs in the EP, America's Standards.

Tonight We Unite!

Lower Class Brats, The Casualties, Nekromantix,  and Down by Law will be touring the United States starting on July. Don't miss out on these shows!

Amazing Songs for the Weekend!

Here are a few punk songs to enjoy over the weekend. One of them deals with having fun (Antidote's Go Pogo!), another the seriousness of being a drunk (Black Flag's Drinking and Driving), another about having a long week and starting the night (Lower Class Brats' Start the Night), and the last song (A Global Threat's Young and Dead) speaks out about looking at our views, uniting, and to not quarrel amongst each other.

Punk Aid

Punk Aid: Aceh Calling is going to be an immense album featuring a vast variety of punk bands to support the Indonesian punks that were wrongfully detained in December 2011. They were treated horrifically, forced to remove their clothes, receive hair cuts, and various other unnecessary actions.

This album contains bands from all over the world supporting them. This shows that the punk community is listening and wants to avail as much as they can. The album will be out on March 1st. The album will be available to download for $5, include a downloadable booklet. There will also be a CD version (5 CDs total due to the large quantity of bands). All proceeds from the album will go to Movement Records in Indonesia. They will distribute the funds to those who need it.



Show your support!

Track Listing for Punk Aid: Aceh Calling:

Evacuate (USA) - "Aceh Calling"

Combat 77 (Germany) - "Unwanted Rebels"

For Trash (Indonesia) - "For Trash"

Among The Enemy (USA) - "Collateral Damage"

AntiSeen (USA) - "Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match"

Askerosamente Repugnante (Chile) - "Rabia & Venganza"

Auweia! (Germany) - "Wir Bleiben"

Bio Crisis (Mexico) - "Restos de Nada"

Brigade Of Bridge (Indonesia) - "Streetpunk Tonight"

Burns Like Fire (USA) - "One More Shot"

Cheapness (Indonesia) - "police bastard"

Chemical Bitches (USA) - "Phantom Cell"

Combat Crisis (USA) - "Our City"

Заводь - "Гори, Гори, Гори"

Crypt of the Zombilord (Sweden) - "Cultural Hyphae"

Deadly Reign (USA) - "End of Days"

Defiance (USA) - "Out of Order"

Derelyction (Germany) - "Behind the Mask"

Destruct (USA) - "Annihilation"

The Bricks (China) - "Punx United"

Diatribe (USA) - "The Deluge"

Dipsofobia (Mexico) - "Negligencia"

Doggy Style (USA) - "Punker's Anthem"

Domestic Violence (USA) - "Government Funding"

For Fuck Sake (USA) - "Seize Fate by the Throat"

Frankenstyle (Austria) - "Trip to Nowhere"

Hangover Generation (Switzerland) - "Rise Up"

Hausvabot (Germany) - "Wunderbar Asozial"

KalleNinja (Sweden) - "Fiskefarfar"

Krum Bums (USA) - "The Sound"

Lab Rats (USA) - "Brain Dead"

The Oversuck (Indonesia) - "Truth Can't Be Blind"

Last To Leave (USA) - "Anasazi"

Lower Class Brats (USA) - "Who do They Save?"

Mad Pigs (Czech Republic) - "My Blood"

Mania (USA) - "Why Subvert?"

Monster Squad (USA) - "Leach"

Mr Whiskers (USA) - "Mr. Owl, How Many Licks Does It Take To Make Her Tootsie Pop?"

No Name (China) - "We Don't Need Your Rules"

Oddball (USA) - "Just the Tip"

Pestpocken (Germany) - "Kein Platz"

Proissenbois (Germany) - "Alles Lüge"

Rotten (USA) - "Blood on your Boots"

Samuel Caldwells Revenge (USA) - "This is no Velvet Revolution"

Scattergun (USA) - "Mobilize"

Seek Revenge (USA) - "Left Astray"

Situation Red (USA) - "Some Of Us"

Verbal Desecration (Mexico) - "Order out of Chaos"

Sivle Si Dog (USA) - "Punk Rock Ruined My Wardrobe"

Skangkots (Indonesia) - "Dance Sucka"

Social Rejection (USA) - "Black Sheep"

SS Kaliert (Germany) - "International Chaos"

St. James and The Apostles (USA) - "Hypomania"

Stud Attack (Germany) - "Stud Punk"

The Angst (USA) - "Deadly Dose"

The Borstal (Indonesia) - "Wake Up Boys"

The Capones (USA) - "Zero Converted"

The Kuda (Indonesia) - "Circle Crop"

The Line (USA) - "The Calling"

The Scarred (USA) - "Go Home"

Tight Fits! (USA) - "Everyone Loves my Diamond Eyes"

Times Square Timebomb (USA) - "One of Us"

The Erections (Japan) - "But I'm OK"

Total Chaos (USA) - "Political Repression"

Troops Of Tomorrow (USA) - "The World Won't Listen"

Unit Six (USA) - "The War we Fight"

Unrest (Germany) - "Extent"

Unwanted Noise (Canada) - "Last of our Kind"

Versus (Germany) - "DIY or Die"

Violent Affair (USA) - "Social Disease"

Woodsmen (USA) - "I like Em Young"

Your Last Rights (USA) - "A Contra's Objection"
Wreckage Squad (USA) - "Final Flames"

Information taken from PunkAid.org

Oi! This is Street Punk!

Today was the release of the album Oi! This is Street Punk! featuring all the bands that are in the above album cover. Eleven bands, eleven songs, out today on 11/11/11! If you have not ordered it yet, or unsure if you will like it. You should listen to the stream of all the songs on the album at Pirates Press Records.

The album opens up with NOI!SE with the song called "Coming Storm." It is definitely a great way to the start album. It is a slow pace song, with a catchy chorus. The song picks up pace at the end, closing with a solo which leads to the following song, "Blood Sucker," by The Old Firm Casuals. This song is faster pace song. It shouts to be in your face. Not only do the riffs ask you to listen intently, but also the lyrics will grab your attention with "Look me in the eyes, it is you I despise!"

The song "Boomtown" by Knucklehead slows things down. The song definitely deserves a good listen, with a memorable chorus that will definitely have you singing along after just listening to it once. Following this awesome song is "America's Standards" by Lower Class Brats. This song has been circulating for a while, but definitely still a good song to listen to. It opens up with the classic Lower Class Brats trademark of a bass line opening the song. It definitely brings back nostalgia of their popular song "Just like Clockwork."

Things slow down once again with Marching Orders "Minimum Wage." It is a moderate pace song with a good solo and guitar tunes that make you want to listen to the song. Control follows this song with " High Time I Hung my Boots." It is another straight in your face song, which instantly grabs your attention as the previous song closes. The bass line after each chorus is a good listen to.The vocalist just gets you enthused over the fact that he enjoys punk music, and that he will never let go of the punk lifestyle. The song keeps you excited and has you singing along to the chorus afterwards.

Young Offender's "Trelawny's Army" follows the song. It starts off with a steady pace, and catchy tune. The chorus just goes straight on and keeps you hooked for the entire duration. 45 Adapters follow the song with their very own, "What's Right?" It opens up with a simple strum and a hi hat going, then it just hooks you in with its bass line. You just want to jump up and rock out. The song is a great song to listen to.You will definitely listen to it multiple times.

Sydney Ducks follows it with their song "Espirit de Corps." The starting guitar chords with the drum rolls going at the start gets your attention. Definitely a great way to start the song. The chorus hooks you in, making you want to sing along with it as well. Harrington Saints follow the song with "No Justice." Opening up with a quick start, and a semi guitar solo. It is a good song overall. It slows down the pace to lead up to the final song.

The song, "Until the End," is by Booze & Glory. This is a slow paced song with an anthem type song. The guitar tunes and the chorus just keeps you listening. The chorus will want you to sing, "We are marching on together til the end." It was a good ending to a great album of 11 bands with their 11 songs.

I enjoyed the setup of the songs alternating between slow and fast pace songs at the start. If I had to choose a favorite out of the 11 songs, it would be 45 Adapter's "What's Right?" That catchy tune just keeps you hooked.

Barbie

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "

(The girl on the picture is French model Tara Lynn)
Last comment: I'm not putting down thin people, being a thin woman myself (BMI of 22 maybe?) just saying that being large doesn't equate to being unattractive.

 

Written by Delphine Fieberg.

This story informs us that not everyone agrees with what the media interprets as "beauty." We should not be guided by what society is telling us to do. It's definitely a matter of an individual's perception and interpretation.

Lower Class Brats have a song about this exact topic. (If you are near Austin, TX, you should check them out. They will play next weekend at San Antonio and Austin. For more information click LCB.) Enjoy.