Summer time in Richmond, VA means one thing: it's time for a good ole fashioned GWAR-B-Q! The maggot masters have set August 18th as the date for their event taking place at Hadad's Water Park in Richmond, VA. There will be food, there will be booze, and there will be GWAR! Here is the full ...
Notes on pulling the sky gown - Strike Anywhere Like Love Rain , Strike Anywhere seem clunky and uncool in reaching for an absoluteness of expression. Strike Anywhere is the Love Rain of hardcore. But if a band is to be political, why can't they be as bare-faced, simple and cliched as this? Why can't their reach be as mainstream as this? There is power in banality. There is power in ingenuous conviction, because what else is there? Irony and detachment [...]
Last night I headed out to Philly's Barbary to catch one fuck of a lineup in melodic hardcore (and pop punk): Strike Anywhere, A Wilhelm Scream, The Copyrights, and One Win Choice. The place had a solid turnout for an early show, although the crowd was mostly dead (for some reason, every Strike Anywhere show in Philly is like that, very different than when I used to see them in DC).One Win
I'm going to keep this recap really short due to the fact I can barely type (more on that later) but on thursday, I headed to the 1st unitarian church to catch the Bouncing Souls 2nd night of "For all the unheard", where they played "Self Titled" and Hopeless Romantic in it's entirety.Strike Anywhere:I was surprised how empty the place was fir these Richmond hardcore legends. Besides a few
Yes, you read that correctly. WEEZER, the pop group helmed by Rivers Cuomo, is headlining this year’s five-day punk rock hootenanny known as Riot Fest . The festival returns to town October 5-9. Also on the bill this year are Social Distortion, X (playing their 1980 album Los Angeles ), Descendents, ALL, Helmet, Strike Anywhere and several Chicago acts including The Tossers, The Crombies and Nachtmystium. Another super secret Riot Fest headliner is expected to be announced this Friday. Tickets for this year’s festival go on [...]
Strike Anywhere: Sunset on 32nd (from Change Is a Sound , 2001)
With the Sunday's Home For The Holidays show postponed till Thursday, and having Strike Anywhere not being able to play it, I feel extremely lucky to have them come to Philly last night. After digging my car out of snow and battling the treacherous hills of my neighborhood, I made it to The Barbary in time to catch all the bands (which there were only 2, since one had to drop due to weather
Something tells us that Strike Anywhere might have some difficulty making the trip from Richmond, VA, to to Philadelphia for tonight's scheduled show at The Barbary. (Reports that the power went out at The Barbary last night aren't doing much to raise our optimism, either.) But, as of now, there are no cancellation notices to be found on The Barbary , Strike Anywhere, or R5 Productions websites. (Twitter, meanwhile, remains eerily quiet.) Fans of Strike Anywhere will have undoubtedly seen the punk quintet live since the release of its latest album, 20092s Iron Front [...]
Though we've known about it for a few months and had ample opportunity to pre-grieve, hardcore fans finally have to come to terms with the fact that Ruiner, the five-piece Baltimore beast, has officially broken up. After six years and two solid albums for Bridge Nine Records, the band played one final hometown show this [...]
A few years ago I had the opportunity to attend a pretty shi shi art opening. (Bjork was there, enough said.) Of course, I had no business being there, but I never miss the opportunity to rub elbows with the beautiful people, wolf down crab puffs and drink top-shelf hooch on the house. The high point of the evening for me (besides the aforementioned free booze) was a video installation that looped an extreme close up of a man picking his nose, and played it back at a painfully slow speed. Projected on an enormous wall and examined frame-by-frame, the [...]
Strike Anywhere UK tour dates Strike Anywhere have announced a final run of tour dates this summer. 8/18- Nyírbátor, Hungary- Azfeszt 8/19- Graz, Austria- Sunset Star (early acoustic show) 8/19- Graz, Austria- Music House 8/20- Enkirch, Germany- Fallig Open Air 8/21- Wirges, Germany- Spack Festival 8/22- Knokke Heist, Belgium- Zaal Ravelingen 8/23- Stuttgart, Germany- Zwölfzehn 8/24- Zwiesel, Germany- Jugendcafe 8/25- Schweinfurt, Germany- Alter Stadtbahnhof 8/26- Dordrecht, Netherlands- Bibelot 8/27- Reading, UK- Reading Festival 8/28- Jyväskylä, Finland- Lutakko Liekeissä Festival 8/29- Leeds, UK- Leeds Festival
The G20 Summit begins today in my home city Toronto. While the first major demonstration happened peacefully yesterday, today is the real test for everyone in and around the city as at least two key groups will embark to march down the streets of Toronto in the afternoon. I think this is an incredible opportunity to capture some extraordinary images, but my friends had advised against any participation in the demonstrations due to the possible danger. At the moment, I am still undecided on whether I will get involve or not... in any case, I hope [...]
Videos: Strike Anywhere acoustic show in Costa Rica "Instinct" "The Crossing" Check out more videos here .
Strike Anywhere have announced a North American tour with Bane, Touche Amore, and Lowtalker for June. 6/3 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey 6/4 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater 6/5 Banff, AB @ Wild Bill's Legendary Saloon 6/6 Edmonton, AB @ Avenue 6/7 Calgary, AB @ The Republik 6/9 Winnipeg, MB @ The Royal Albert Arms 6/11 Timmins, ON @ The Victory Tavern 6/12 London, ON @ Call The Office 6/13 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl 6/14 Toronto, ON @ Wrong Bar 6/15 Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks 6/16 Quebec City, QC @ Le Cercle 6/17 Montreal, QC @ Underworld 6/18 [...]
Street Performers I was already half way through the festivities and already I was feeling like I was there twice as long. It started feeling like a Disneyland for music addicts. It's easy to get caught up in the organized chaos that is SXSW, especially when your days line up perfectly with some amazing acts. Woodsman I was going to catch Shearwater at some record store down the street but decided against it due to how far away it was. A mile walk isn't [...]
Photo by Laura Murray . Standing toward the back, I watched Paramore-haired teenage girls and their bro-meets-lumberjack-cowboy male counterparts stream into the main hall of the Gramercy Theater in New York City. For a second I had that feeling you get when you visit your old high school. To think that many of the kids in the crowd were born in the same year that I picked up the first Punk-O-Rama , I felt distinctly "cooldadish." The first band on the lineup was Title Fight , who I regrettably [...]
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WEBSITE | LISTEN | PURCHASE ON AMAZON Strike Anywhere is a melodic hardcore band from Richmond, VA with over a decade under their collective (collectivist?) belts. Since 1999, they have been churning out records of aggressive music steeped in activism and political awareness. On Iron Front, released late in 2009 on Bridge Nine Records , Strike Anywhere continue their tradition with an album that is musically pummeling, if a bit heavy on the platitude. The band is tight as you'd expect after ten [...]
Video of Strike Anywhere playing "Hollywood Cemetery" at Generation Records NYC
Each and every year, around this time, I find a slew of releases from the previous year that inexplicably (inexcusably) passed me by. OFFICIAL SITE / MYSPACE / TWITTER Sometimes it's simple procrastination. Fine, can't listen to everything in just twelve months, right? Others, the release flew right under the radar. And when it's a band as vibrantly [...]
ARTIST: Hey! Rotate This. 013 The 2009 Thursday 30 in memory of Martin Streek. With an mp3 download for one song from each album on the list. DATE: 12-31-09 WRITER: Bill Adams Okay, so this year was a great one for music on several levels. First, there were a tremendous number of great albums released both by established bands (like Dinosaur Jr., Manic Street Preachers, Bob Dylan, Meat Puppets and more) and new, untested acts (including Cage The Elephant, The Low Anthem and Care Bears On Fire), thus [...]
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