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Slovenia’s Punk Revolution: A Conversation with Marina Gržinić by Daniel Makagon

Marina Gržinić discusses Slovenia’s unique punk history and the ways photographs help us feel that history.

Razorcake 139, featuring Osa Atoe, Carnage Asada, Greg Knowles (Chumpire), Two Punk’s Guide to Community Planning

“It’s about connecting to ancestors, connecting to the people who came before me. Why wouldn’t we want to stand on their shoulders?” –Osa Atoe

Chris Chappell Photo Column—The Taxpayers

I can’t tell you if The Taxpayers or the audience were having a better time, but what I can tell you is that everyone in the room was happy that this singular DIY punk band is playing shows again.

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Razorcake 139, featuring Osa Atoe, Carnage Asada, Greg Knowles (Chumpire), Two Punk’s Guide to Community Planning

April 24, 2024

“It’s about connecting to ancestors, connecting to the people who came before me. Why wouldn’t we want to stand on their shoulders?” –Osa Atoe

Razorcake 138, featuring Mike Park (Asian Man Records), Al Barile (SSD), Tomar Control, Liz Mason, Chris Rowley (Huggy Bear, Adulkt Life)

March 4, 2024

“If you don’t pay your bands, you’re screwed.” –Mike Park, Asian Man Records

Razorcake 137, featuring Night Court, Melissa Cody, Good Grief, Vial, and Mick Collins Part Two

January 16, 2024

Chose your own adventure: “Jiffy: Thank god for abortions!” and/or “Emilor: I welcome our lobster overlords!” –Night Court

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Razorcake Podcast #873 with Christian Valles

April 19, 2024

Song on repeat on my MP3 player.

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Razorcake Podcast #872 with Daryl

April 12, 2024

Got me a friend.

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Razorcake Podcast #871 When Horns Are Okay 32: Never Mind The Bullhorns, Here’s the Saxellos with Ethan, Todd, and Tim

April 5, 2024

Both Ethan and Todd want to live in a world where the Slaks’ “Love Is” is in a movie that changes millions of lives for the better.

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Columns

Chris Chappell Photo Column—The Taxpayers

April 20, 2024

I can’t tell you if The Taxpayers or the audience were having a better time, but what I can tell you is that everyone in the room was happy that this singular DIY punk band is playing shows again.

Gilbert Cisneros Photo Column—Baby Ghosts

April 13, 2024

Baby Ghosts playing to a full house at the Boing! House in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Destroy All Neighbors (2024) review by Rick V.

April 11, 2024

A gory story about procrastination, motivation and several mutilated reanimated corpses.

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Interviews

Slovenia’s Punk Revolution: A Conversation with Marina Gržinić by Daniel Makagon

April 25, 2024

Marina Gržinić discusses Slovenia’s unique punk history and the ways photographs help us feel that history.

Matt Riggle interview by Rick V.

May 11, 2023

Matt discusses Ed Banky’s Car getting their twenty-seven-year-old LP released and celebrating the legacy of Bobby Riggle.

A Colorful Love Letter: Brooke Smith’s Visual History of New York’s mid-1980s Hardcore Scene by Daniel Makagon

March 16, 2023

Brooke Smith’s Sunday Matinee documents the mid-1980s New York City hardcore, capturing the bonds among punks and the energy of shows.

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One Punk's Guides

One Punk’s Guide to Surf Music By Sean Carswell

April 18, 2024

Music is a continuum. All good music is some combination of embracing and rejecting traditions. I’m using a more expansive genre definition for surf music. I’m including spy, horror, spaghetti western, eleki, Indorock, and a bunch of other subgenres into surf.

One Punk’s Guide to Digital Sex Work By Lorde Destroyer

December 14, 2023

My name is Lorde. I’m an online sex worker. Lorde Destroyer is my stage name. Lorde comes from feminist and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde, and a client christened me Lorde Destroyer because I destroy egos, paradigms, and old identities. Psychological devastation—or as some like to call it, mindfuck—is my niche.

One Punks Guide to Sludge Metal by Angus Wonder Of It All

June 29, 2023

One of the really lovely things about discovering sludge bands like Crowbar, Neurosis, and Iron Monkey as a teen in the ’90s was they were unhealthy, scruffy, and unglamorous, like myself. These bands’ onstage demeanor also appealed to me.

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Eastside Punks

Eastside Punks Episode 4: Nervous Gender

April 1, 2021

Nervous Gender made swift work of attacking every taboo, stereotype, and preconceived notion about religion, sexuality, and punk rock they came across…and made their points using—GASP!—synthesizers to create a racket that often sent the most ardent Black Flag fan scrambling in piss-panted fear for the nearest exit.

Eastside Punks Episode 3: Stains

June 30, 2020

For episode three of Eastside Punks, we turn our attention to East L.A.’s first, most notorious, punk band. Boyle Heights’ Stains were contemporaries, and friends, of Los Angeles first-wave bands Germs, X, Mau Maus, Screamers, and The Gears.

Eastside Punks, Episode 2: The Brat

May 18, 2020

In our second installment of Eastside Punks, we focus on East L.A. legends The Brat. Formed in the late 1970s, vocalist Teresa Covarrubias, guitarists Rudy Medina and Sidney Medina, bassist Lou Soto, and drummer Robert Soto quickly cornered the market on smart, taut pop delivered with righteous punk fury by one of the tightest bands in the area.

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Slovenia’s Punk Revolution: A Conversation with Marina Gržinić by Daniel Makagon

Razorcake 139, featuring Osa Atoe, Carnage Asada, Greg Knowles (Chumpire), Two Punk’s Guide to Community Planning

Chris Chappell Photo Column—The Taxpayers

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Razorcake Issues

Razorcake 139, featuring Osa Atoe, Carnage Asada, Greg Knowles (Chumpire), Two Punk’s Guide to Community Planning

Razorcake 138, featuring Mike Park (Asian Man Records), Al Barile (SSD), Tomar Control, Liz Mason, Chris Rowley (Huggy Bear, Adulkt Life)

Razorcake 137, featuring Night Court, Melissa Cody, Good Grief, Vial, and Mick Collins Part Two

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Webcomic #622 by Lawrence Lindell

Webcomic #621 by Mikie Manzer

Webcomic #620 by Ollie Mikse

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Razorcake Podcast #873 with Christian Valles

Razorcake Podcast #872 with Daryl

Razorcake Podcast #871 When Horns Are Okay 32: Never Mind The Bullhorns, Here’s the Saxellos with Ethan, Todd, and Tim

Columns

Chris Chappell Photo Column—The Taxpayers

Gilbert Cisneros Photo Column—Baby Ghosts

Destroy All Neighbors (2024) review by Rick V.

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Interviews

Slovenia’s Punk Revolution: A Conversation with Marina Gržinić by Daniel Makagon

Matt Riggle interview by Rick V.

A Colorful Love Letter: Brooke Smith’s Visual History of New York’s mid-1980s Hardcore Scene by Daniel Makagon

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One Punk's Guides

One Punk’s Guide to Surf Music By Sean Carswell

One Punk’s Guide to Digital Sex Work By Lorde Destroyer

One Punks Guide to Sludge Metal by Angus Wonder Of It All

Eastside Punks

Eastside Punks Episode 4: Nervous Gender

Eastside Punks Episode 3: Stains

Eastside Punks, Episode 2: The Brat

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