The Anti-Queens
From the first hit of the drums to the almost immediate gritty yet catchy vocal harmonies,
the Anti-Queens are a band that should head to the top of your list of acts to see live when the world opens back up. Toronto has a sea of other underrated aggressive acts, but few deserve gold, silver and bronze punk-rock medals like the Anti-Queens. Check out all 11 tracks on their self-titled album in the meantime and wait impatiently for its sequel.
Big Joanie
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, their music is far from goofy in the best way ever.
Big Joanie label themselves as “Black Feminist Sistah Punk,” and we support a global movement of bands with said description. It’s been a minute since your last LP, Big Joanie, and we can’t wait for more albums. London calling, indeed. Fans of
Ending with
Destiny Street Demos (1978-1980), filled with additional songs that didn’t make the final cut, every part of
Destiny Street Complete functions as its own individual work. The songs were never a problem, and the original album worked as it was. But all these alternate universe versions are equally valid as well, whether listened to discretely or as a whole. The album is the focus of the conclusion of our chat.
The occasion upon which we are having our first-ever conversation is a most interesting version of an album I love, but you apparently were not pleased with it.
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Jimi Hendrix “a pretty fair guitarist.” Some might quibble, but Biafra’s work fronting San Francisco’s
Dead Kennedys politicized American punk rock. He possesses a keen, vicious satirical eye: Debut single “California Über Alles,” alone, envisioned a “zen fascist” U.S. presidency under former California Gov. Jerry Brown. His “suede/denim secret police” rounded up ordinary American citizens and shipped them to reeducation camps, where they’d “mellow out, or you will pay.” Mind you, the rise of Reagan two years later proved to Biafra that the conservatives were bigger fascists.
DKs transitioned into the hardcore era and became a primary attraction on the worldwide punk circuit before being harassed by forces for censorship of rock music; they were the first band sued for obscenity, over the inclusion of HR Giger’s famed painting “Work 219: Landscape XX” (aka “Penis Landscape”) in 1985’s
Here are some Album-a-Day projects which have been completed:
(The count so far is:
388 registered
albums-a-day!)
Spastic Moose - Then Come The Chunks (not yet digitized) -
This one was recorded right before my bandmate Sophia and I split for
college in 1997. We didn t know it was an album-a-day at the time, but
it counts!
Tom 7 vs. Ultimate Warrior - Barmy Badger Backpackers (30
songs, 23:42) - This one was made by me and my roommate Don, and was
the first conscious Album-a-Day effort. Mostly pretty embarrassing, but
there are some gems, I think. (Scroll down and start with one of my