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Monday Photo Blog: Hey, look! It’s more from Milo from Chicago!!

  • Published May 14, 2012 By Matt Average
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One of the more prolific and consistent contributors to the  Monday Photo Blog has to be Milo from Chicago. This is the third installment in less than a year. What’s your excuse? This time around we’re at the Blackhole on April 4 of 2009. Such a heady time, when we were all three years younger […]

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Punk in North Korea?

  • Published May 11, 2012 By Paul Curran
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The public radio program The World on Boston’s WGBH (Charged!) had this very interesting report the other day about Ri Seong-Woong, “North Korea’s most famous punk rock star.” While Ri Seong-Woong, and any form of punk rock in North Korea, does not actually exist, the extent to which the purveyors of this “hoax” went is impressive, […]

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Video of the Week: Welcome Friends

One of the first rules of storytelling is “show, don’t tell.” Jordan E. Lopez adheres well to that rule, and so will we… So sit back watch this nice little 5-minute film about Carbondale, IL‘s long-running punk house, Lost Cross.

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Monday Photo Blog: Jimmy Farabi

  • Published May 7, 2012 By Matt Average
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For this week’s Monday Photo Blog we go to Chicago via the camerawork of Jimmy Farabi, with photos of Cülo, Vile Gash, Raw Never, Merchandise, Sickoids, and Manipulation. Who’s the man who appears to be singing along at the Manipulation show? For more work from Jimmy Farabi, check out the blog chicagoisnowhere. Send your tour photos, […]

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From the Vaults: Γκορλαγκ (GULAG) In the Showyard (Ν£ρ„ην Αρ…λΝ® Ν¤ρ‰ν ΘεαμΝ¬ρ„ρ‰ν) LP

  • Published May 3, 2012 By Matt Badenhop
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Γκορλαγκ (Gulag) — In the Showyard (Ν£ρ„ην Αρ…λΝ® Ν¤ρ‰ν ΘεαμΝ¬ρ„ρ‰ν) LP (Lazy Dog Records, 1990) In the honor of our new Athenian coordinator Lydia, and my upcoming trip to Greece, I chose to feature this criminally underrated Greek punk masterpiece. GULAG, from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, started playing in the mid ’80s. On […]

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