Issue #8 — November 2025

VARNING

BREAD
&ROSES

sTRESs
POSITIONS \

DON'T INVERT
THE ART!

COLUMNS
REVIEWS
& MORE

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COUNTERFORCE

hardcore punk underground

Whatis this? The Counterforces an nifatve to push back against the corparate
‘capture of hardcore purik. Social media apps and streaming platforms dominate how
we nteract oniine, inciuding how we share and distrbute our music and deas. The
‘corporations thatrun these platforms extract massive profits from us, which they use.
tofund and faciitate expioitation, war and genocide. Meanwhil, our independent and
underground altematives have eroded.

‘The goal of The Counterforce s o strengthen and grow the hardcore punk under-
‘groundthat stilexists outside of ths corporate capture. Rather than funnel punk o
profit—hiven waled gardens, we want o foment and encourage a culure thatis au-
tonomous andindependent This s not just anostalgic, backward-facing project—we.
‘want to explore new altermatives for spreacing hardcore punk online and offe.

Vouare reading ssue #8 of the print version of The Counterforce.

Findithe fles to rint and distrbute this zine (and otherslike ) yourslf onine at
https://the-counterforce.org

“There, you wil iso find the other arms of The Counterforce:

‘A WEB ZINE

“This sie publishes reviews, etters, scene reports, profiles/nterviews, rants, and how-to
‘guides,al with an emphasis on projects that try to exist outside of corporate platforms.

I part,we hope this wil encourage human-criven curation,recommendation, and -
‘covery. Find out about new bands that aren' o the sireaming stes. Submitareview of
‘your ownbband. Compie a scene report or show review and sendit in. We also publish
‘articles and DY how-to guides to help empower other punks to buid and partiipate in
‘ascene thats less centered around evilapps.

Alths s published onine, butaso compled into reguar print zne eciions to bring
paper back o the punk show ke the version youare reacing now).

‘A DIRECTORY OF SIMILARLY ALIGNED PROJECTS

“The internetis breaking down. Websites outside of ahandiulof apps have siowy disap-
‘peared, and the ones that are st ot there are harder and harder to find

“The Counterforce provides a directory of these websites blogs, archives, distros,znes,
racko shows and podcasts..anywhere hardecre purk can be found online (and maybe
offing tool)

'APLACE TO EXPERIMENT WITH AND LEARN ABOUT
ALTERNATIVES

s easy to shit on the corporate social media and sireaming platforms, but what ather
options are there? There are alternatves and we try them out—pubic oniine show cal-
‘endars, open-source socialmedia,self-hosted music sharing—and encourage other
punkstojoinus.
A DIGITAL ZINE DISTRO

Major purk fanzines of the past fel victmto the rising costs of printing and shipping. We
publish printable PDF o our zines oniinefor anyone to print and distribute themselves,
‘and encouage other znesters o submit thelr own.

‘Whatif instead of shipping zines around the world,any punk anywhere couidlog on,
‘downioacl some PDFs and scam some copies 1o have a fully stocked, PWYC zine distro
atthe next show? Print-t-Yourselt

AHARD LINE AGAINST CONTRIBUTING TO FURTHER
CORPORATE CAPTURE OF OUR SUBCULTURE

+ Nolinks to nstagram, Spoty, Linktree, Discord, o cther corporate platforms.

+ No coverage of releases that are on major labels,or only avalable igitally on
‘corporate streaming pltforms.

- Always independent and not-for-profit

For expanding the hardcore punk mutual aid autonomous zone.
For facilitating human curation and recommendation.
For hardcore punk with context and politics.

Against celebrity, ladder climbers, clout chasers and influencers.
Against the algorithmic fiattening of our subculture.

Against the capitalist death machine and the corporate capture of
hardcore punk.

Contrbutors to this issue: automattack, Ben Rudolph, Greg the Builder, Hobbes,
Joe the Photo Guy, Jolie M-A, Kaitlynne Cruz, Marginal, Martin Force, Rachael Shorr,
Ralph Rivera, STUNK and Taylor Joy. Cover by Sara Elbourne. Layout by Taylar Joy.

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LIFE IS BRIEF, PUK RULES:
ARecap of STRESS POSITIONS Fall 2025 Tour

by Ben Audoloh

“The first show of our fall tour was at Cobra lounge in Chicago. A nice and early all-
ages gig ona beautiu, late summer Thursday. | ick up Steph and we head down to
the venue. We are chronicaly on tme to pretly much every gig we play. ono, Russel
andDanny are there tomeet us forloadiin. After an hour or so of muling around
andhanging out with the other bands, peaple start showing up. Mostly young-ass
Kids who are stoked as hell o see the headiiner. Our friends n the band LATTER are
celebrating the release of their new EP tonight. A smal cluster gathers n front of the
stage trying to secure their spat for the show. love this energy. s refreshing to see
people giddy and ready to dance rather thanjaded and drun. s gonna be packed
inhere soon KILL MOVES apens the show. They play a sort of mix of emo and noise
rock.Changeover takes alitlelonger than deal but now its our tum to play. The ihts
onth stage are bright as helland it hard to see whats going on out i the seaof
peopie. It seemed like peopie had fun even though haif of them loaked confused for
the lack of mosh parts. lay fastor el We rush off stage sweaty as hell SNUFFED.

is next They get better and tighter every tme | see them and the kids go absolutely.
bonkers.Hel yeah Everyone sings along as their vocalst Carly screams ‘TS MY
LOBOTOMY DREAM

LATTER s next. They're a somewhat newer band but have been hitting it hard this last
yeat They play a down-tuned medey of noise fock and punk Hard to compare to
anything n partioular,but s powerful Therr stage show s wid as hell and the orowd
is buzzing Hell yeah It so great to se a oom full of sweaty young people hanging
onto every word. The show ends at 11and wefe al home by midnight. Tomorrow,

4 R
we hitthe road for Cincinnatl The tour s just auick,
shcday run hrough Agpalacia, th il cestnation S

is Richmond where we wil be playing Dark Days
Bright Nights Fest.

‘The next day everyone meets atmy place at 1.
We aldote on my new pup Harley,an old anxious
pitbul. She's sad to see us go. We hit horrble traffic
leaving the city, but once we get throughits about
‘a5 uneventfulas a chive could be. We arrive at The
‘Comet (again chronicaly early for the show) and
realize no one s there for the gig yet. A few of us
find forest preserve nearby and go for a hike. My
favarie pre-show fitual We meet a riendly black
catalong the tral. Must be a good sign. Steph and
Danny later decide 1o go and do the uick hike and
‘againmeet the biack cat. Definiely a good sign.

Back at the venue we are alkiling time by playing

pool. The Comet provides free food for bands and

we allstuff down buritos. Some people hate al the waiting around you have to do

on tout llove it It wil always beat going to work BUTCHERS DOGs the first band 1o
play. I heard their record Purists Piss Codes a whil ago and hadnt seen them ive:
yet — they did not disappoint | met Landon and ocie a few years back with another
band. They e immense swesthears who are absolute punk Ifers. RAZORELADE
from Pittsburgh played as el They re fun as fuck. Punk AF thrash stuft.They dida
medley of ‘Come Feel The Noise! it was fun. There was a somewhat solemn note to
the evening as we found out the owner of The Comet had recently passed away. He
seemed to be beloved by the community for helping create and maintain an al-ag-
s space intown. These places are precious and not aways owned by people who
have good ntentions so wefre very happy to be able to celebrate the ife of someone.
who contributed s0 much Keeping the gigs going through grief seems Ik its exactly
what they wouldve wanted.

Our g inRoanoke the next day was unfortunately cancelled as the basement venue
we were supposed to play had flooded Its a bummer to ose a show on such a short
tourbut these things happen. Finding a replacement last minute s easier said than
done. We do the 10 hour cive to Richmond It ateast a beautiful winding raute
through Appalachia to help pass the fime. We finaly get o our hotel at around 10prm. |
‘grabbed us some cookies from the Subway next door and we surf the TV for a whie
‘and end up watching Queen of the Damned, We al pass out by midright Hell yeah.
Getting good sleep on tour i a high commodity.

We wake up early and smash the free breakfast at the hotal A few of s use the gym.
Coffee and then more coffee and is time to head to the venue. Load nis at 2. We get
there at 145 to make sure we can snag a good parking spot. There are e 10 bands
playing today 5o weld rather make sure things are easy. The venue s called Studio
Two Three. The buiding s reminiscent of an old schoohouse. The frst floor has a
soreen printing shop. The show wil be upstars n what seems ike an old school gym/
‘assembly hall
Atthis pointinmy lfe fve been doing punk shit for longer than haverit. The buzz
get showing up for fest s the same as it was 20-odd years ago when| first ot nto
touing. llove scanning al the tables for merch,records and zines. ove seeing peo-
ple lhavent seen in years andreconnecting as it oy been a week.| owe so much
to these experiences and frisndships. The bil today is absolutely stacked and filed
with riends. A musically very eclectc bil as well SLOW HOLE, EYE FLYS and GREAT
FALLS all blow me away.

The venue had a giant projector. Allthe bands got ta ick what they wanted to have
playing behind them. We chose a compiltion video of dogs just doing cute dog shit
Who doesnitlove that?

IRONLUNG playedlate n the evening. They were pulverizing.Less stand up comedy in
between songs than ather fimes Ive seen them, but that added to the vibe of today's
set It was relentless and punishing REVERSAL OF MAN ciosed out the night It was.
50,00 o finall see them. The four of s grew up n Florida and never had a chance
‘while they were il active. They were fantastic and fulof the same energy that allof
the lore speaks to. A bucketIst band for me and Jono especialy. A great way to end
anepic day.

We setoff for Ashevile early the next morning. Again, another beautiul crive winding
through the mountains.

We arrive at Static Age, again early, and find cofee. This was our first tme playing
here with this band so we didrit know what to expect. The smallrecord store filed
up quickly after the doors opened. Aot ofreally enthusiastic young puks showed
up whichs always a good sign MOCKERY played right before us and they fucking
ripped. Nine minutes of raw D-beat A kile first set for them. Look out for recorcings
soon. This was probably my favorite performance for us on this un. love playing a
smallroom. Steph and | are constantly dancing around each other frying to not knock
the other over.ft never gets old. The kids wen bat shit, side to sides and slamming
the whole time. The room was electic and we were al buzzing after Hellyeah.

. S A ———
STRESS POSITIONS

Another beautful cive to Louis-
vile Torights show s at ware-
house spot called Camp Space-
man. The whole place reminded
me of one of the big squat venues
in Germany Wall-to-wal graffi
and a sick professional PA. The
stage s just high enough to dive,
offbut not too high to where
youteel far away. The gig starts
promptly at 7 TOTAL FLESH were.
one of my favorite bands of the
tour They play fast, 80s-style
‘American hardcore. No bulshit
and catchy i al the ight ways.
DEADY headined. Another band
Ive beenitching to see for awhie.
Aty unigue and refreshing
band. They sounded immacuate.
Their last song o the setinvolved
inuiting everyone n the crowd on
stage to dance andbang on the.
drums. People went nuts. Good
vibes allround.

We headed back home to Chicago the next day. The news that the National Guard
is supposedly being deployed to our streats sets in. We've been reading about and
hearing from friends allweek about the massively increased ICE presence and their
Kidnapping of people n our home. For now we have a few hours n the van to con-
template the last fow days and savor how lucky we are to get o this stuff Life s bref.

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Skull Fest 2025 Reportback

by Greg the Buider Photos by Jos The Photo Guy

‘Another hurid mid-atlantic August means another Skull Fest nlovely steel city,
Pitisburgh, PA.Iknow, | know, ‘another fest?” How many fests do we really need? |
donitreally know, but or me at least, Skull Fest feelsfike the one that breaks the mold.
Instead of being a weskend of punk and hardcore curated by one persons taste, Skul
Festis true colaborative effort You getamix of punk that s sure to hitall your sen-
siilties: punk, hardcore, hardcore punk, orust, goth, and for better or worse, even ol

The amountof bands playing Skull Fest is overwhelming and you are sure to get as
much as you can handie, but the main reason| love going to Skull Fest s hanging out
Most shows have an opportunity to see al your friends, there's the punk's pienc, he.
afterparty, and of course the tips to Page's Dairy Mart or some vegan Oreo peanut
butter arctc swits or eating Spak Bros by the Sphynix with boobs statues in that
graveyard.

Amerkkicais current politcal
climate and tightening bor-
der poiiies had a noticeable
impacton the usual handful
of ntemational bands this
year Regardiess, there were
stll some banger sets every.
night I wasit there, butmy.
colaborator on this report
back,Joe the Photo Guy,
said SEX DWARF (who might
have been the only full in-
ternational band?) were widl
Thursday night

My weskend started Friday
by missingal of the matinee
Show because somehow t
ran way ahead of schede.
The lasthalf of ZYCLONE's
last song was good though!
Later that day,Ipoppedinto
Spiritto catch SHORT LEASH
(who played a surprising
and welcomed 85 MENTAL-
ITY Cover) and IRON LUNG.
Those 2 dudes stil gott.

After some Sexless //No
sexihada lovely walk over
tothe Profane Existence 36" anniversary show. FLOWER played another powerful
setand were followed by the first of two DESTROY sets of the weekend. | didn't know
what to expect from the DESTROY set but t racked. They were tight,loud, and stil

angry. Asa sidencte, 1 had no dea the gutarist of
NO STATK was in DESTROY. Sick. Upstars from the
Profane show,|caught EARLY GRAVE, akiler band
from Phiadelphia, PEACE TALKS, who are always
greatlive, and UNIFORMED SERVICES, another band
from Boston who has that Boston sound and does it
really wel. ied to stay up for the aftershow, butIm
‘amorning person and I know my lmitations, o lun-
fortunately never got to see SEX DWARF. Bummer.

Saturday started at the Prevention Point matinee.
show. This s where my enjoyment of hanging out
started to confict with seeing al the bands playing.
lended up only seeing CHILDREN WITHDOG FEET,
who playeda very sick PENI cover, and WHO PAYS?.
1akso gotin troube for playing a game of Com-
mander in an area we shouldn't have beenin, but
thats a story for another time. From there | headed!
back to Spii for thatright’s crust show. DESTRUCT
proved once again that they are on o the best
bands in this horrble country llve in DROPDEAD
riped. Afer althese years the anger, passion, and
commitment the message is il there. Bob gave
several impassioned speeches, something| feel s
missing from most shows today. | caught the first
half of DESTROYs secand set and it was stil good.

From Spiitheaded over to Spit Quest where wil
admit I went to the i show, but friendship rocks and!
Iwanted o see my homies In SECLUSION play.Gen-
uinely enjoyed theirset. Afterwards, hung around
o catch some of NO TIME where their singer Adam
(whois aiso a Skul Fest organizer) once again put
s body on the fne and broke his hand from racking
toohard

Muchike the night before, no matter how much |
ntended 0 go 1o the aftershow to see CONDUMB,a
band who putout one of my favorite records of the
year, Iwentto bed.

Sunday’s matinee show is usually my favorite show
of the weekend. The lneup for this one had some
last minute changes. MACHINE GUN and DEMON-
‘STRATE, a band that proves straightedge s st
punk, unfortunately dict play, BUT we were bless-
ed with second FLOWER set. Right before that
bonus set was ULTIMATE DISASTER who give their
felow Richmand dwellers, DESTRUCT, a run for their
money for best band in Amerikka at the moment.
UDinto FLOWER was my favorite two set combo of
the weekend. | wouid listen to a UD/FLOWER spit

untilmy turntable broke. The one thing noticeably missing from Sunday afternoon
‘was the Evil Ways wresting show that has happened the past few years. | think Cole.
puts alot o effort and care into giving a group of people who might not know what
the fuck s going on a good shaw. The man truy cares about the art form of death-
match wresting.

My Skul Fest closed out with the STORMCROW gig.| caught ZYCLONE again who
fucking RPED, holy shit that band is good live, and LANGUD, who are from Edmon-
ton, Canadabbut might as wel be from Sweden. Absolutaly perfect ANTI-CIVEX wor-
ship. This was STORMCROWs fist gig on this side of the country, which sounds ke it
canitbe true butl quesstis! it was a very sick set,they sounded great and was arice
endcap o the weekend.

Ididnot expect to write this much about the weekend.| think how 1 appraach Skull
Festis different from others, but punk gave me a ton of eat riendships and for me
its a celebration of that. Carit wat for next year. Thanks o Joe for the pictures. hink
he does a great ob capturing ‘the culture”. &

DON’'T INVERT THE ART

by Hobbes.

Punks ke black shirts. This s an refutable fact.As a food spiling person,1am of the:
same mindset and wil aways choose a shitin the punkest shade over any other
color Butis there an unknown cost we have allbeen paying while hiding it stains?

Lets get started.My friends, what comes to your mind when you see thess two
examples?

e
i |

Do younofice something a e strange? Well it daesnit bother you et that the
tlar black flag s now a white flag, I wil show you a few more examples o further

drive my point home.

On the left shirt,
the designis
completely gone.
The detail of this
Frankenstein
artwork s lost
and has become
unrecognizable.

Surely, if Sakevi had
intended for the
"Great Punk Hits"
punk to have
blacked out ceeth
and white eyebrows,
that crazy man

would havejust
drawn it that way.

Our poor skull
cupids on the left
have been inverted
already proper
reworks of the 1084
EP art to read well
onablack shirt.

SKULL TALK

There s no condition known on ths earth that causes a person to have a biack skull
with white eye sackets. Even upon death. Im sorry to break t to you but this ph
nomenon exists solely within punks-fucking-up-artuark. We have decided, a
genre, that we do not care about biacked out teeth and glowing white eye holes — as
ong as it means the design goes on a black shirt

sctually adapted for ablack background,and fi t anyway 1o go
backon toa white shirt
LET'SFIXIT
Talk To The Artist

Firt and foremost its always worth reaching out o the artst before you change the
background color or reverse the design. They llunderstand how the shapes and de-
tails behave when everything gets darker, and they can help you avoid odd-looking
highights orloss of detail I you want extra gold stars, teling your artst ahead of tme
that you ntend to do black shirts wil be helpfulin their design process.

Ask Your Screenprinter

Assuming youire not ordering your shirs or patches off some sketchy Recbubble
ste, this s a great option. Screenprinters are used 1o adapting artwork drawn on
white to print cleanly on black. They can re-balance the ines and colors properly.Just
make sure youre communicating this s your desire —and confirming that they worit
Justinvert the design. Whil preparing to write this insiructional, asked a screenprint-
erfor their opinion on our tendency to nvert designs and they had this o contrioute:
“ust last week 2 band came n with artwork of a hooded executioner, but due o their
poor choice inink colors — the executioner suddenly became a kiansman. You don't
want that. Please don' invert your art”

Dot Yourself

Armed with touch of Phatoshop competence, you can avaid sacialzing entrely and
absolutely solve this issue yoursel. Tl show you an easy trck thatll enable you'o.
adapt most designs to go on to biack shirs for the rest o your punk fe. ts nothing
fancy, and !l feel ke second nature after running throughita couple of tmes your-
self. Lets gol

QUICK PHOTOSHOP DIY

Wefe gonna work on our boy Ratfink here. Someone desecrated our favorite gar-
bage rat and wefe going tofixit together so he can be properly appreciated ona
black shirt.

ToBegin: Access Editing Software

Pirate i borrow it froma friend, do not pay hundreds of dolars for a digial program.
Vou can also use something ike photopea com whichis basically a free Photoshop
dupe for your browser.

Step 1:File > Open

Dorit work off the screenshot your bandmate sent youn the group chat.Find the
originaland opent.Ideally you want a decently large scan of the artwork.

Step 2: Remove Background Around The Art

Use the Magic Wand Tool (Shortout is the W key) to select all of the white background

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around the art Hit backspace o delste those areas once they're selected.

Step 3: Select The Artwork

Withthe entre transparent background selected (Hold shift to select multiple areas),
you canisolate the artwork by now going to Select > nverse. Now only the artwork
willbe selected.

Filer View
Al
Deselect

Inverse

Step 4: Expand Selection

6o to Select > Modify > Expand. Try 5 pixels and press OK This makes a sort of halo
or*forcefieldas a good friend ikes to cal it around the artwork

edge.
> | Border. s
Smooth

v Expand.

Contract

Step 5: White Border

Make sure you have the color white selected n your palette. reate a new empty
layer behind the artwork. Use that fayer to fl your selection you just made with white
by going to Ecit> il S t to Foreground and press OK.

® K3} Ratfink

Step 6: Test [t Out On Black

Create a biack background layer and try aut the design. Erase parts of the border that
donitf, adjust the size of the border to suit the at,

Isnit he lovely? Now you can a the very least see where his damn eyes are looking
This is 3 simple five-minute dirtbag method of adapting a designto be readable ona
black background. Now imagine f you were to spend some tme oni,or colaborate
with your artst or screenprinter What a great shirt wanna wear that and spil soup all
over i1Enoy! §

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A (Sober)
Varning XVII
Reportback

by Taylor oy
Photos by Rachael Shorr

A Varning from Montreal Festival
is basicaly Christmas for Mon-
treal punks —a highly-anticipated
tracition,an international punk
family reunion, anda huge party.
Nowinits 17th edition, its currently

our ity’s longest-running punk
fest andlves up tots reputation
of bringng n high qualty bands
from across Canada as wel as the
S, Europe and even Japan. You
might think that the charged-hai;
‘sword-wielding skeletons fea-
turedinal the posters and promo
materiatare an exaggeration, but
itsnot far from how the crowd ac-
tually appears, periodicaly spiling
outofashitty metalbar to stk
up Montreals downtown tourist

shopping core. Armed with a ful fest pass, decided o take full advantage and iry

andldlo all 6 shows over 3 days, plus the Saturday punk marke. Here's my reportback:

I dicit watch every single band but tred to catcha ittle bit of most of them Firs to
honourably mention some great local bands: PORTAL TOMB delivered ther crushingly
heavy hits wel, even though bassist Ava had gone through a car windshield a few
days prior o the fest and showed up with anose cast and forehead sitches —a true
crust warror Fuck cars! WARKRUSHER crushed as much as ever, and| was glad to
catch EULOGY again, anewer scandi-flavoured cbeat project featuring well-known
local characters. | was wonderingif local power-pop uartet PSYCHIC ARMOUR would
feelout of place on the bilbut all the rock'nioll nerdis enthusiastically lapped up Sara
andEvans gutar shreddng.

There were a fow bands that | saw earle this summer at Scorched Earthin Vancou-
ver that I was excited to see again.Victorias HEDONIST were high on that st —m not
ahuge metahead, but they are clearly at the top of their game right now, and their
name came up again and again when | asked people for theirfest highlights. Van-
couver crusters EXTENSIVE SLAUGHTER were excellent, and were also a great crew
tohang and enjoy both fests with. Edmontoris LANGUD was ‘the sonic equivalent

of crinking a beer” according to one of my bandmates. Phily's ALEMENT also played

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both fests I have seen them a few times now and had fled them i the category of
‘bands | can recognize are good but dont really ot for me; but at Varning something
clickedtand Iwas totaly hypnotized by their set

A high poin of face-melting fun and chaos was Friday when ULTRARAT played — a

local raw dbeat tio that has recently re-actvated, with Nick from MUECO flng n
onbass for this set. Mutiple power
failres only added to the insanity. At
one point llooked aroundin the crush
of absolutely anninlated punks with
shit-eating grins, catohing wafts of
beer breath and poppers fumes and
idly wonderedif it was possible to
break edge by proxy. 1had fun though.
Bostoris INNOCENT had a tough act to
follow, but they deiivered a high-ener-
o set that was one of my favourites.
of the weekend. Overal,not enough
dbeat at Varning this yearl Admitiedy,
Idipped before Friday's headiners
VARUKERS. | heard they were fun,
satisfyingly nostalgic, and it say.
anything stupid, which s ahuge win
for any old band.

Wil I spent the weekend moon-
lighting as a cruster, im ahardcore
punk gire at heart so must shout-
out some sik hardcore punk acts.
INVERTEBRATES (Richmond) were
Super fun headlining the Friday
matinée, and local faves TOTAL NADA
miraculously brought energy and ife
tothe il-advised Saturday Aftershov
The hardcore punk bands at Varning
are explcitly more of a palate cleanser than the main event, but any local hardcore:
enthusiast who missed the matinée with PEIs CELL DETH and POISON SPEAR really
fucked up.

By the time LIFELESS DARK Boston) and DISTURD (iapan) closed the Saturday main
show,was seriously losing steam — both bands were great butneither blew me.
outof the water, whichis objectively kind of an insane thing to say. Especialy about
LFELESS DARK whose three previous Montreal shows have been major highights of
the ast 10 years for me.

Some finalshoutouts: Ottawais BOOT who not anly brought energy o ane of the.
toughest slots o the whole fest (opening the Friday Matnée show) but also proved
that your Oitrevival band doesnithave to be a boys club. I also wanna mention
TRAUME from Poland, who headlined on Thursday — m o the biggest post-purk.
fan, but I made sure to catch them at the behest of friends who saw them while
touting Europe this summer, and they were realy good.Ifelt additionally lucky to see
them, as thef travels to Canada were complicated by Russian incursions info Polish

o
airspace around thei departure.
s Boris reminded us during TOTAL
NADAS set s apriviege to be
where we are n the world, and wee
lucky tohbe able to come together to
elebrate and share our music with
ach other. The world s getiing shit-
ter and scarier and Imreally grateful
tothem andal the bands that
traversed continents, oceans and
borders to come play in Montreal

The music was great and we had lots
of fun — buta few minor caveats:

TOO MUCH SMOKE. Props to the
autonomous actor who unplugged
the extremely overactive fog ma-
chine after ahuge puff completely
Shrouded LIFELESS DARK during
the openingriffs of thei set. | coud
barely see the drummers the entre
fest,and whats the pointof Varning
if canit watch the crummers?2?

THE AVERAGE ATTENDEE AGE WAS
PROBABLY PUSHING 40. A riend
tokd me that when he came to his
firstVarning in 2008 he also thought
“why i everyone here so old so
uess its always been this way?
Dont getme wrong, love ancient
crusties and| aspire o be one, bt
also want the kids to be able to hear
actually great bands and participate.
inamutigenerational scene. I made
ajoke about how under-25s should
getdiscounted passes, butlam
actually kind of serious.

INBATTLE THERE IS NO SOBRIETY.
Varningis aparty,and pecple go
realy hard with the alcohol,crugs
and smoking,even by Montreal star-
dards.Its a tough fest to be sober at
~heard this especialy from friends
who are early in thei sobriety or are
justtying to moderate theirpartying,
T —— A
oo BN AR tion, annoying coked-up punishers

EY
and probably some sloppy dude randomiy trying to iss you Im not trying to shame
anyone's consumption ust noting that it a pretty integral part o the whole vbe of
the festandif thats hard for you to be around it might not be yourfam

'SPEAKING OF “SOME SLOPPY DUDE TRYING TO KISS YOU" Iheard from a fow
people who had to deal with creeps or unwanted invasions of their personal space._.
some of this can be chalked up to the venue, whichis ot our” spot by any means.
butitalso overlaps with the point above. Its defintely the kind of show where f Im
trying to take a breather alone after roughly 10pm, find a decoy friend to stand next
totolessenthe lkelihood of being creeped on. Yuck.

1 guess Imentioned n the ntro that there was a Punk Market on Saturday. tabled
PWWYC punk/anarchist zines and was a bit more successful than at the night shows
(where people didn' take many zines, but rather used them as coasters for their
bee I cicup my stud count and snagged a MURO tshirtthat Janick was trying to un-
0ad, 50 t wasn a toal flop, but honestly there's not much o say about it other than
thatithappened

But onamore positive note — the fest was really wel-organized tis year. In years
past allof the information, announcements,set times, . were only on Facebook
{yes,Montreal s perpetualy in 2005) The introcuction of a proper, consistently-up-
dated website this year was a game changer The organizers also tapped me to
design and print paper programs with the schedule and fest info, which think were a
big hit — | saw people consuiting them throughout the duration of th fest. Organizers

also made sure the info got posted and kept up to date on our local onlne calendar.
m eally happy that the organizers

prioiized accessible,non-corporate

ways of disseminating al the informa-

tion and I think that it was part of the.

reason everything ran super smootly.

‘Additional huge shoutouts to: 1 Who-
ever updated the food recommenda-
ton st o include mostly vegan/veg
options 2 The people who prepared a
huge, diverse buffet of deicious and
healthy vegan food 1o feed the bands
andvolunteers alweskend 3. The
stage managers, who were on top of
itand kept everything even sightly
ahead of schedule, making sure the
main shows ended before the Metro
stopped running..unt the lastnight
‘when shitsort of went of the als. |t
‘was bound to happen at some point
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people can make for a good fest the
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2025 Reportback

by Jolie M-A | & — —

Inthe years since 2020, there's been arunning joke
that punks i NYC are in an ongoing competition
tohostthe mastinsanely llegal shows. Makeshift
“venues’ began cropping up allover the city as

‘organizers began outdoing one another, putting p- b
abere anel m unpor st bonn A o0 oot o
for one ight only. The moring after, Tk Toks woukd = =
cutacootfogs g ovoris oonga & Car 5 B

Sea i moshers,somehow nthe middioof Manmat. SAERfg RSN wecer i .
an When theres not much sce o fum fo by vay of | SRRt T )
DIY venues and everyone s sick of having shows at |~ e e emies s #4675

the same four bars that allow us, ft makes sense that
the underground becomes not ust anecessity, but a badge of aleged authenticity
‘and commitment to keeping a ity scene ungovernable and raw.

Inkeeping with ths traciton, Bread and Roses Fest set the bar for keeping the indie
‘experience. indie. Generator shows are back, and audiences have accepted a level
of danger and spontaneity ina city governed by such principles on a dady bass.

And there was no one better to ot than thefr IY colective, committed to halding
the most punk and least-corporate event possibl, tuly taking ‘doing it yourself' o
another level. Hosting almost 40 bands over three days, the event was advertsed via
‘email and a Goagle e folder with handmad flyers, many of which were missing a
‘confirmed venue. it ended up that most would be outdoor generator gigs, some per-
mitted and some not, with:a phone number 1o text fo the coordinates. The temporary
atonomous zone was real every show started two hours late and was hostedina
pie o trash outdoors, with varying degrees of cooperating PAs and weather They
were all$20 or Pay What You Can, and rest assured o one WAS turmed away for lack
of funds.

“The callective, heimed by Donna of CHRONOPHAGE and Jake from BULLSEYE, did
fantasticjob of getiing tagether DIY bands from every ether of the indie and purik
spectrum It was a group effort though, with so many types of people helping out

t0 ensure that the show couid and dd go on, even when logistical hurdles threat-
ened to extinguish some of aur fun. Theiintent of ‘uniting anarchist and communist
non-hardcorists and peac punks for the sake of enriching our connections and
‘community” seemed aute successful Indeed, they gathered some of the best and
most committed underground artists across North America, with a dynamic crew of
people, blasted into the chaos of an uncanirolable and sprited festival,

“The firstfestival evening was locatedtin an almost comicaly cutty ‘venue' carved
outof a scrap of a skatepark along Newton Creek n a seemingly abandoned and
industrial part of Long lsland City. Waking there consisted of a pigeon-shit-splattered
‘overpass with shattered bottes litering the abandoned sidewalk — not abodegain
sight — through a cinematic wasteland with no homes, just pure industrial fith.In order
t0get to the garden where the generator was set up, you had to scutle across a bro-

F
kenbridge and watoh your step tomest the dozens of other weirdos huddled about
inclumps of woodchips, dangerously close to the poisoned body of water

Locallegend HOME BLITZ opened up the evening with s signature blend of weird-
‘as-fuck, medieval-sounding flamboyant pop guitar genius It was a treat o see
Austir's TOUCH GRL APPLE BLOSSOM's jangly, heartfelt HEAVENLY-inspired indie pop,
‘which got everyone moving and feeing good, bopping along to front woman Olivia
(Garders sing-song but powerfuly twee vocals A fest highight was GOOD FLYING.
BRDS from Indianapolis, who brought the party down using their multile tambou-
fines as weapons. The makeshift stage was squished with seven members,jamrming
raucously with co-singer Susie Saughter screeching as she passed outlooses to
the audience. The band refused to slow down or stop screaming and wiggiing for
evena second,and their Gen Z exuberance was contagious. I fltfor HORSEGRL,
who were st game to go on around 2am, eschewing their usual n-ear-mantor-
type professional shows for the complete disorder of Breact and Roses. They were:
good sports and sounded even better, with their melodic and restrained style of
mainstreamindie-approved guitar music successfuly reaching the outdoor masses,
including their compelingly soft vocals that sounded beautfulon even the scraggi-
estof blown out speakers.

The following day we somehow dusted offfor found two, starting Up ata church n
Ridgewood for the day show. Catered by Food Not Bombs, sat outside skuping their
hearty soup to get braught back to e for the morning show: The basement scene
Showed out new bands as wel s NYC faves, and the most fun was litering outside
getiing toknow new peaple who had the enduring curse and biessing of sharing the
‘same subculture. TW33DY from Kansas City were among those new comradss, and
their blend of sightly country-twinged loud,fangly indie fuzzed out the audience with
aun ‘Cry No Tears' NEL YOUNG cover. PROVIDERS played their frst show, featuring
(Groovy Mike from VEXX, VANITY, and a milfon other guitar projects alongside my
bandmate David from RIBBON STAGE — btter known for TERCER MUNDO, POBREZA
MENTAL HYSTERIC POLEM and also a millon other nternational punk bands, as well
s Ava from CBS and an eponymous solo project she also performed under.

The daytime event was deightfuly accessible compared to Saturday s evening cha-
o5, which was located behind a fence and past a park on the Willamsburg waterfront.
Attendees were given coordinates to a location where someone was supposed o
wakk them nto the show area, but Im not totally sure i such a person existed. Real
‘it youknow, youknow"
hours,and don' expectit
tobe easy if youwantan
intentonally anti-corpo-
rate event. Thisinvolved
clmbing on ateral rash
can to get over a fence,
then walking another 100
yards down a carpet of
broken glass toa smal
enclave of rees ontop of
rocks before the East Av-
erstarts. We wer vreated
toanendof summer

rain that pretty much did not stop allnight,ghtly dusting our electronic equipment
‘and creating problems with gear, prolonging the shows start to atleast 3 hours after
alleged start time.

Miaculously, the generator held on, and RAT HENRY finally kicked it off with some
stelar 38 CLOCKSstyle catchy and down tempo post-punky, scrappy gultar music.
My band, RIBBON STAGE then showed up for asurprise super-short set n true B& R
fashion, we were added to the Ineup two days beforehand, and had only practiced
with anew band neup once before our three-song debut Naturall, it was amess.
Idicintlove looking ke a crowned at while desperately trying o pee n the bushes
before playing to animpatient crowd of some of my most beloved and annoying.
peers, but one has to pretend to be hardcore and not care about such luxuries.

JEANINES played after us, coming down from Wester Mass to blast their saccharine.
‘andmelody-laden clean indie tones through demonically loud amps, alowing Alcias
clear and dreamy vocals to shred the whole waterfront Other bands included the al-
‘Ways great GALORE from SF, whose recent LP ‘Dirt" was one of my favorites of 2025
‘and quite overlooked inmy opinion. Also on the neup were MOPAR STARS, a Phily fa-
Vorite with members of SHEER MAG and POISON RUN who have an upcorming debut
record onKin 202 tink the show finshed before 3am, but at least there were dalis
nearby if youfelt ke hopping the fence again to get to them

We closed out the weekend at the amphitheater at Far Rockaway, an amost refresh-
ingly “normal” venue by virtue of having a bathroom you could walk to close by —one
that even had tollet paper ovingly provided by the NYC Parks Department Due to
permiting issues, the show had {0 startate and end early, but the morale was high as.
artists ke BULLSEVE took the sunny stage. Itwas alovely, sunny day and Dan Dimag-
‘g and ook a dipin the water, which was defintely 00 Cold at the absolute tal end
of summer but stila necessity at the rock show. W didritput our shoes back on and
induiged in the amphitheater's smooth floored safety to dance barefoot fo Canada's
‘swesthearts, GARDEN OF LOVE. A Sunday highight. the three piece was fronted by
Donnais frequent collaborator and multimeda artist Jane Harms who joined s from
Monireal. They shared the stage with indie mainstays LIGHTHEADED from New Jersey,
‘a5 well as hometown heroes the avant-garde AUTOBAHN who heralded the young~
er end of fest participants. | watched them whil eating more nourishing yet sightly.
bland vegan food, provided by the llustrious Food Not Bombs squad once again.

‘The sunset ona successiul event that brought together lke-minded freaks from
‘across the spectrum of whatever might be called “independent rock music” The
‘ollective also graced us with a comilation tape and zine with artsts who played,
printed onnewsprint and effectively capturing the ethos of Bread and Roses in alts
xeroxed glory,avaiable on an esoteric Youtube ink. Th fests vibe was decidedly In-
‘accessile — yes they provided allthe coordnates, but youhad to willyourself to get
there, descending into the ‘freaks only* kind of atmosphere. You have torealy want
tobe there to be there, but somehow hundreds of peaple did

Overall we were lucky to be together and have fun especialy ina city with ncreas-
ing brutalty toward those wh fall outside the mainstream, and Im grateful o the
organizers for creating such a dangerous and inclusive environment Yes, the dream
of the 90’ s deact and “ndie rock”no longer exists, but for one dazzing weekendits
‘corporate capture could be ignored to keep the DIV dream aiive in NYC. €

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ot care about Haloween, s ot prt of
my cultre and don' wantit o be prtof
anything aroundma.| apenly hato the North
Amercan/@itah culure, which,fo some rea.
Son,is cooler than ou raditonsicelebrations.
that o old (vey old) and beauti,normally
rolate onature.The orly good ting about
his culural colorzaton|s that | can spoak
and witoEngish, so1mablo o communicate
withmany people that couldt otherwiso.
But by i Englsh the goballanguage andnot
Catalan? Tho same ting willbo thoughtby
the people o Per about Spanich,and otaly
Support themin thor defonse of Quechua,
Aimara, . Why dowe have fo so a calonz
erlanguage?

Wel ince maware ofthe good partof
Spoaking an understandiatio anguage by
many people{refuse to consider it common
sinca, for e tis aforoign language that 1 was
forced o earn m order t be abe o stucy,
work and bo an averago ciizen),and l kesp
wiing sing 1, bt gong o e you, dear
roador toloarn now languages that donot
ropresent tho capitasm and colonizers of e
workd.Leaming alanguage may sound cha
longing, but it actual ko an hour per day (o
understand tho basi things inabout amonth
o two.You probably have that imelifyouo
natie Engish speaker, youcan considor It s
way:manyof those who spoak Engishhad
that time t earn so we could communicate
with you Why aro you ot making thateffor

Okay ot mako easir Thore's aperfoct
language or those who dorithave much time.
and spoak anguages that como fom Europe
s calle Esperanto, Ves! It st xita! 5 2
beautiullanguage with aboautul commu-
ity 3t simiar to punk i many ways For

‘oxamlo, pooplo tavel trough tho world
Vitng ecperantists because they know ey
wilhave alot i comimon, o they rusteach
other Sounds alot ke punk,f be honest
Also,esperantsts hoid events constantly so
they allmeet there, andif you atisnd ona they.
willove o find now pocple to this anguage.
and valvos. Vory punk st

The vakies and potical context whore
Esperanto s dovoloped can bo found i
many places. Irecommend you o check .
But aince s the statofthe month and .
actualy recommending you some music from
Sandcamp, | decided t acd some esperan.
tststhat make music 1hope you rjoy them
and ry to anslato tho Iyios and tles. Thats
nowlloarnt Enich when! was 10 ranslatng
Groon Day lyrcs!

SOCIOLADIFEKTA - Kreski
My curent favorte esperantist band s SOCIO
LADFEKTA,a Japanose band that tokos the
sound o the rust anarchopurk rom the
90s/oarly 00s andbrings 1t back. They share
mambers with another band that also uses
Esporanto as.amai language, MALMPLKL
and ako share members withother amazng
bands ke UNARM and BLISTERING NOSE.

TS EPis aitto gom for thoso rterestodin
anarchopuni Using Esporantofo thlyrcs
s bigstand against any colonizercutise,
Romambor hat Japan was (and could bo
arguod thatt st ) colonizer aton, and
that the US hadinvaded and controld them
sinco Workd War I changing o country fo-
e, Alo, anarchism & not the most popuar
polticalopton lapan, ot venin punk 5o
11 band i challengng in many ways all hat
they have arounc.

The musicis a non-stop hardcor attack,with
bilant musicianship and the amazng offect
of o vocais that trn this sy punk actinto

s

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aferocious stance. Poico Fikas Abuor Po.
o8 Fuckng Bastard 7) s an amazing startng
track,and now my favort Esperanto phvase.
incal oven wear abadgo wihitItsounds.
way better thanin Engisht

wouid e to reference ths music ith
other bands that you might ke, butits ust
aperfoct oampl of lapaneso uniqueness
brutl hardoro, an experimont with sound
that doosit ool ke an oxperiment atal but
avery wel-propared punk act Doyou ko
DISRUPT, DOOM.LFE, even some DISCLOSE?
o, they sound ciferen, but then you wil
e SOCIO LA DIFEKTA.Kreski s no the only
roloase of this band,they ater rleased a
promo cordod i thel praciicarooms cnly
for tha Japanese tour wih SUBDUED.

VOGO PROTESTA - Neniam Konficu Al
Lastato

Japan Japan, Japars Fuck Japan and avery
state!Fuck borders Bt when v tak about

Esperantistpunk, i the st we can

ois ot ge far fom tistrtory and thir
amazing scane VOE0 PROTESTA aro ono of
the frst bandis flearmt that wera st using tis
inguage. Wo playod with them n Tokyo n
200 after MALMPLII and coukritbeleve
hatl was seaing (or hearing That ight was.
probably the one when| naly startec o have
hat fearad chvoric it can be akind of
puri baptiem, o th start of apurk rtre-
ment tdopends onhow you want 1o seo .
Horalam soven yoars tor sol quess chose.
my path o thorestof my lfe: bong doaf and
gt mysellmakng me thr ke ot f
bands thatsound e whit noe.

Anyway, we ar horo 10 tak about music
inotnoisa hehel decided to choosa ths
VOCOPROTESTA reease because it sounds
amazing andi foallko s abit overooked
compared ith teir pevious P Vojo A
Lberaco. Never rus he state is th e of
theso songs of classic sound passed trough

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asapanesa crasher crust fiter, bt very
Subtlo compared with thok ot recordngs.
Actualy it sounds more “hardcore" than thelr
provious oloasos, but they stlvo pretty
xromo nagood way.m takinghoro s
i were friends in'a ba having some beers,
<0 don' mind my vague descriptions hsis
nota scientiic nvestigaton.

Noriam Konfc AlLa Statois powerfu
abum, withncredibie references i the one
to-Historiade un suck pola' by V RECH,
SoicdaPoiciais a perfect cover andntorpro.
tation that made me jump n exctement once

<tenad o the it i classioof beran
puric It amazes ma to See the diferent sound
and stylo VOCO PROTESTA used here.Tm not
‘90ng o i love IV RECH s0 much but wish
they woud have sounded ke this. The st of
the album cortinues with ths reinterprtation
of 805 classio that guess avefromallover

Liope, espocily rom the Scandnavian
‘counties Tho songs areshort butnot 160
short, thamixis, iy honost opirion, prfact.
Andthe abum cover ke th previous L is
mado by Teadoro Homéndez:f you donlt
knowhim, you bttor stat 10 chack OTAN and
tho Znes that produced over the ast 20-30
yoars.

neard that some peopl flom V&0 PROTES-
A were a the Esperantist sociotyof Tokyo,
butfm ot sure about this. | hope they are il
active, bt guess they arent since havent
nerdlof heminthe st few years, Plesse.
check thoir whoo discography,its pure

‘g0 And ansiato holyrcs o fivd away.

1o express anger hrough anon-colonizer
ianguagel

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The powertul fookagafter a good purk show
isundriably 0no of the best feelngs youcan
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have.Ths provious month went to some
‘hows thatl ojoyed alot and retuned.
homo few tmes thinking that punk s amaz-
g Mosty | saw fionds Iva, which’s oven
battersome n prjocts it know o that
arojustnow.

Lfois strange, and maybe even meore soin
ouritle punk corr. One day yatire meeting
ome punks for few hours, maybe staying
atther house o paying together somewhere
nthe wor andafte a e years withno
knowledge of aach otho youmast againand
€5 ko iding some good od fiends. T s
‘whathappenod with NURSE a fow days ago.
We played together beteve they even put
‘onous show)n Atlanta i 2017 and stayod with
hem. Then n 2019 we were so ucky to piay.
again there with them, and fraly now, 2025
they played n Barcelona i my naighbor-
hoodldo ot need to convince you that the
how was amazing, they provedt every-
whera over the st ninelan years!

Ivias 50 excied to sea NURSE and iy cui-
ous aboutlocal bands. 1t was not the bestcay.
forme, was kindanervous. and 1 was ready.
10 tay at thedoor tho wholo show. o,
thats oxacly tho opposit o what happaned.
Bosidos soaingai tho bands, | was impressed
bySOT.llove to see people that have been
partof many otherprojots for years doing

a band that sounds s big a5 this e Thor
‘Sound was perfoct or amodic punk act,
and there was even a MASSHYSTER cover
and another one of THE CURE k7 50 you
Know what the deslis

The next day lwent 0 sas the Berners
TERMINAL FLTH snd SPEED KOBRA wih thei
hoavy crustat Biokos Fantasma, aclassic
sk squat rom Barcelona thats atrisk

of victon They aso piayed with SAYON

and OFENSA | iasit able o 500 OFENSA
bacausewas taking wih iends haverit
‘s00ninalong tme, but SAYON did n amazing
0015k t was tho best shaw I saw of tham.
Altertham, TERMINAL FLTH dalvered tons of
hoavy sounds that smashed our hoads It was
magic | couidnt believe how good tis band
was. Then SPEED KOBRA firished the job with
another demontration of musicianshp and
powerfulvocals

A Goupio weoks ater ISAFFECT aso vstod
ourcity! Agan at lokes, aperfect place fora
pursk show: These legends from the 90s st
lver anncredibly ponerul anarchopur,

‘and ould say thatmoro thanahundred
purks went o <ce them on a wealday &
beautil o sashow diferent enerations.
ot together 0 ooy punkilift o venve
hinking how beautil this community is,how
creatitis thatsomeane who stared to play
he 905 can il come to Barcelonain ota
DIV way, with tho same passion after more.
than30yoars.

5 you can sos oroacl we had alotof fun
Iately over here.acommend you toFsten
o2l theso bands and support thom i they
‘come o your city (they wil Im sure about 1t

SOT-Crema-hotot
SOTis hew band with members of POLS
‘and NAFRA,with mostly 31 the mombers
from Almacelies or Leida. f fm not mistaken.
You shoukd check Aimaceles on Wikipedia
‘and henkeep readng tis They have bands
there.record their i, started asocial
‘cantor, publsh 0asd the BEST punk fanzie
nSparieh/Catalan that exsts nowacays (51~
LENCIO TBXIC0) and aro the icost paople on
Eartnt Thase are things you dontexpact om
atonnof round 7000 pecple.

The Spaish scena had many melocic
purk scts ke this ona i s hstory. There's
‘oxamplos Ixo ELEKTRODUENDES and the
rore recent ACCDENTE but the ktis solong.
s many other punks from Spain was also
nflusnced by thoso sounds andlyrics SOT
150w tako o that styl,abit moro darker,
‘Sometimes it coudba clasafied as postpunk
‘Thoi musicianshiois excollnt from vocals o
eums overything s where it shouldbo.

Afera fewbstens o he LP the melodies of
tho vocals got stuckinmy hoad, and some
Iyrcs started o come tomy mindinrandom
Situations.llovs the compositons, ool ke
‘overy songhas now dotals novery sten, and
they putalot o ffort on making tis aperfect
album, ind fe ik this band il be big a5
‘500028 thoy start o tour and eloase mare
sicof this cusbty!

NURSE-S/T(I)

Referred as lln ther own bandcamo page but
a5 Nurso" nStato Laughter Records page,
Idonotknow whats the real name of this:
reloase. Anyway, i is a pure NURSE ecord.
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aboutwerdhardcore. DIEKRELZEN, some
(CRAZY PRI, cartan YOI parts, o, You know
whatImean, ight? Wel i you dorijust sten
tothe damn abum

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turos,changes and a very great production
the wihola sburm.llove the drums and base,
they gve asoldpresonce o the music with
avary specifc tonofor the second,alavor
it big personaity.But what amazos mo.
thomost arothe gutar cks, that escape of
the classic power chords played as fastas
ossible. Combined with the bass and the
ark growlod vosals thoy tako you 0. very
dark place.

Ihope tis band keops writng music and tour-
g for somany yoars, it would bo a plasure
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have tobe prepared forong songs.But that
Kindof songs tha aro a good tip, with parts
hat evonve i totl diferent passages. Use
s music 1o take that ran,metroor bus in
the marningin the way o work promise
youilwant o il veryono i that shity
‘orkplace withouta sigl drop o cofioe
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they delver they controlpracisely the tmings
‘and how avery sound shoud bo s correct
place.Of courae wa ae taking about a crust
band maybo neary death metal one, o st
astenchoore band hat couldbe aready @
lassic wih ther own style.

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Joase,and shce [m not even close 0 an
‘expertof these sound! willelyou decide
which ar the nflences.f aiburs wera wne
1couid recommend you o take tis ne with
abitof HELLSHOCK, EOLT THROWER and
[DEVATED INSTINGT Eut thats ust my opiion.
and abums are ot e, 50 o whatever you
want o, Their v show here was ncredibly
‘good,making ths sbumbo on repeatin my
3 player.This .2 must fo anyona o tis
‘gonvo.Roaly.iston to 1 Please.

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1get askadby otherpunks prttyregularly
about hs r that new atermative onine music
eharng aop o plaform. Ths quastion has.
bacome more commonin the st few weeks
which suggosts tho tido s roally starting to
tuen againstSpotiy Thats reat butl share
tho oty of many thata mass “Spolity
‘ox0dus'is ol rosulin poogio jumping to
Something naw thatmight ba novel but won'.
realy be funcamentaly batter.

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‘question about Sandeamp aternaties”
" r0gards 0 DEMO FEST in arecent Sept
201, 2025 Interviow Wi DIV Conspeacyvo
abridged my answor sighty and a1 tho end 1
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DIY CONSPIRACY: Those aimost 200 de-
os from thefirst DEMO FEST were allup-
Ioaded on Bandcamp, but or DEMO FEST
2025 youro trying outa tati sito gen-
orator callod Faircamp. t would bo oally
interosting to hear moro about that. Also,
what do you think of emerging Bandeamp
altornatives ko Ampwall and Subvert?

M Thero are maybo a dozen diferent
alermatives akin o Ampwal which aro bying
o callack to Bandcamp's earler days, some-
imes witha slghly more othcalbusiness.
model Theso projects gensraly offer it or
Potbingthats stucturaly or funcamentaly
itforent rom Bandamp. A fow are coopor-
atives, which & mare interesting But overal,
thoy ao ustproposas for ancther centratzed
onine misic dstrbuton business. Thero
nothing 0 s10p ther fom bacoming shitty
510 yoars forcing us l o fod something
newagai.fm not nterested i optons ke
that

Instead, 1 wantsomething hat s us have
more contrl snd autoromy over how e
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sharo music onine. A project hatsritanow.
contralzedsie, but scmething hat s open-
Source and sel-hostabe, <0 we can DI .
want punks 10 bo able o bothshare and fsten
10 aach other's music onine without hauing
todealwith sty company or corporate
plattorn

Farcam s o6, open-source)stai ite
enarator. Basicaly it aprogram that makes
website that looks e a Bandcamp band!
Isbelprofie. A ho releases and racks aro
organizedinicalyand presentod for stream-
Ing/downioad tdoesnit handie any payments
or safes (butyou can ncku ank [0 PayPal
toreceivemoney). To so Faircamp, you nstal
ton your computer, give talyour wa fles,
art notes,yrics andlFaircamp wilput tall
togather and generate the HTML les B,
cruciall,younsed (o tako those HTIAL fos
andput thom on aserver yourselfinordor

1o have someting peopie can reach on he
Itermat It it techical ancinot easy for
overyone. s not ke Bandcamp whoro you
canloginandjust drag and op overything fo
creato or updato aprofic.

Bt Faitcamp s ot what I croaming of
Ultimatel, I want something open- source
and sell-hostable so anyone can sefup aDIY
‘Bandamp. Some technical il rom aperson
ke me woudbe naeded 0 set up e3ch s,
butbands could easiy just sign up and upload
thoirmusic as they do with Bandcamp now.
Icoudrun one o these for my lcalbands
e labels couldrun them for releases they.
putout basicaly any person o group coutd
s61up thei own Hosting stuff o the ternet
osts money, butany of theso o autono-
mous Punkcamo stes could decidef ey
Wani o thvow beneit shows,colect donia-
tions, or take a smalcutof sales. I the same.
princpl behind the decantrazed Ask A Purk
calondars, or Mastodon and the Fodverse.

Thers aro two prjects now of that are
working on samething e this. One s Milo
ancithe other s Bandwagon Both are open-
source andpan 1o bo sel-hostablo soon.
‘Bandwagon’s aso part of he Fedverse (jou
an folow aband's page from a Mastodon
account)and Milo has plans o add Fediverse
Teatures as wel Imin touch with th creators
of both projocts eagerly awaiing whon| can
ry sotting b my own version, Wh that
happens m sure youllhear aboutiton The
Countertorce.

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Finaly as aras fcan tel, Subverts st zne
i bunch of graphic design and unknown
money sources protendng 1o be aradical
‘Bandcamp aftermativ. havent soen or hoard
anything about to suggest thattstjusta

Two updates shce that aaswer:

1Mirlo
o has snce raceived a substantalgrant for
oveloping deceniralzation oaturos from the
ALt FoundationaNetherlands non-proft
that funds projocts {0 contbute t an ‘opon
ntermot) Ths means Nilos well-supporiod
for the next e whie toboth become part

of the Fediverse,and 1o ba much easir for
omeons ik touse t o buld my own DIV
Bandcamp Horas thorblog postannouncitg
ther plans (.o space/team/posts/
funding-foderatig-mirll Foloving s work
‘mall ik scones or purk labelsor anyone
who wants 10 sharoor sol thef musicorlne
‘couldsotup thoi own M. And woritnord
outon he Fedverse stff here,but e cool
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rinute Thoy aro now n"aha’ thoughits
iy open‘o members who bought the $100
‘200, On thoe blog they have pubishod quto
ot of ntemal documents demonstratg
thei formationof a complox cooperative
model, with artis-mombers, labok-members.
‘supporter-members, oc, and a sharo fvast-
mant model that sl them toraise vestor
‘capitalabit ko a tart-up.Ima bitvary of
that, paticulrly because they mention raisig
3650000, but the nk toprovido more nfo
about he funding we took, the fundng wo
‘Gitaccept’doosrtactualy dofver that
(atloastnot oday) Therds justalot of toch
start-up vibes in generalonco you start o
ke around Btk thic motvations are
nthe it lace. s probably nota scam, and
atiaast they aro mostly ransparontf you can
road througha the docs.

Butis ta gaod f for purks? Basides the
Vibes, s a very bursaucratc business model
witha ot of potental stakeholdors wha wil
have potentally conficting gosl. dont thik
itreaty mako sonso forallmusicans, abels,
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one gant cooperatve. might be anethical
‘approach 1o being a working musican’ undor
‘capitatsm, but that st aprioiy or . You
shouldithave 0}oin ahuge complex busi-
noss modolust o shar(or sl)your demo or
rocardoniine ts asojust ype ight now,and
fm skeptialof hype i goneral.

Conclusion:be DIY online.
There i aclar conirastbetween Subvert,
whichis a closed-source sngle centraized
platform abolt withan othical-ish busiioss
model, and Mo, who are working o buld
anopon-source platform that anyone could
se 1o create thlr onn DIY Bandeamp. ind
eto more prormising for punks, because of
1 slignmentwith IV- s a toc hat any of
s canuse 1o ot ossalves,rather thanyet
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ftomundarue.

11y0uare looking for somowhero o rmove
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Eve ght now for anyona to share/sol thor
music, but you can 950 DY aband wabsite
Using Facarp (e RECALL ~ htps:recal
rocks), or uso Noociis ke DEADBOLT —
hitps/ideacbaltneccitiesorg O something
ke Justdub somo domo tapes at home.
‘Whatever you do.just consider are you
pushing o envelope of autonomy, o just
Joing another centralzed platiorm witha
makeover?

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folowing 3 of these projects and colinung
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i.canyasmellit?
Sisappontad some marths bushingayear?)
g0t he varous reactons and soundbitos
rogarding Hardcoro Band A and Hardcoro
andB doing Hardcaro Band' thngs,|
incurrod the memotic damage and uminat-
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the punchout cock.spent those manths
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‘and maybe, perhaps, s s o meaninglss.
nthe grand schema-of-Thngs - beseve
my disapponiment warrants explanation snd
o We fnc Tame.

Disappontad,not,should lary,because
of any doubt ragarding the facts of the case.
They happenod, we know this. Dsappoinied
nstoa bocause of tho axplcation amongst
y Hardoore Punk fellows for more aigned
nVison focus, ntention, sesthetics, et
cotora with mysol than the accused, that
the actions of Harcora Band A andardcore
andE were somehow infact Hardcore Band
bshavir, a5 though theso bonaviors wore.
ot rampant amongst Purk Band & and Purk
andB and Purk Band G, andiikowiso spock-
lod and spatterod amongst he Grindacorers
‘and Power Vilont and Bicyclo Mossengors
‘and Vogan Lawyers an the st s thousands
ong (ihough, presumabl,not the way FLTH
onviioned).

Therss o names namod i go found, bo-
ause Ive named them a miion tmes andl il
‘amillon tmes more, but . grave danger o
‘assume that hs = an Esewhares probem
s o it the downfalof embarrassing
bands with embarrassing wob prosence, -
clingtho tant before we al point and augh at
the clowns, keep an e on the danger st as
ey found i ur own backyards. prconfied
ot by strangors,butfriends and confidants
it bad harcuts and questionable chord
progressions al tho same. Tho doprassingly
banal uthis how ovenly sproad said bohay-
{ors are across s subculre an) indead, al.
cuture and st e,

youlistening?
The big project his year was o work my.

iy through three st the Pushead 100,
successor - Best of the 90 DI Hardcore.
‘according to Prank Records,and tho Wirds
“100Racords That Set The Werld on Fre
Wil No One Was Listening” sl cstinc, yet
surprisingly nconversation’ visons of Wrat
constites What demanding axploration The
projocts purviow was movtably expanded

To ncluda the Wre's 30 album addendum, as
il as al rocords graned the lstious Five
i dosigatin by SotscoMagazine,but was.
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puling pud (and, being chartabe to myself
for onco, recovering! Every couplo waoks,|
romomber this goa and.as m uemployod
for ancther 3manth, | have sbsolutly 2era
roas0n 0 abandon eact dolay) ths projoct
any longor save or an unyielaing compusion
opullpud, get homan asraacket)

Fue stenad o the st sixabums (1w a
pieca fom the ntal traalist) somany.
times a s pont that probably don't ever
needitolsten o them ever again Pusheads
it two antres fucked up tho curve for o
‘cohort What possible hope forlogiimate
antheonic consideraton can uter crock

@ MEATUEN and SOCIAL DISTORTION have.
weighed against o of the reatesthardoore
purk records ever concaived: noluded soily
bacause Pushead baked at the deaoffont-
loading 7 consecutie records by the same.
band and, prosumably because he hadnover
heard NOG WATT or the COVES a ha tme of
publicaton?

L afathor confronted by the O Testament
‘God Pus-y chose ust ona hid the Fight
Back" 7" Frightening. prophetic,the blueprint
for mion would-ba coukd-bes no e has
‘com close torepicating the masaage and.
mayhomof tis rocard. andno ono over wil.
Liowse, dospito thor shirs adorning the bar-
el chests of nowr-ersthie adgemen' hgh-
‘loss pross photos fo docads, the soeds.
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W Away” wera smothered by the saccharine
shade of GORILLA BISCUTS nd UNIFORM
‘CHOICE Springa unhinged rambings over
il tracemark crunch the whol affa
‘over and dono before youknow what it

you they shouldhave otod he U Xs ko a
fuckngjersey afer Al ded.

Fastforward adecade orso, Prank s here to
ecucate. The 905 has aiwaysbeen unfaly
malignad as an outlor i the Hardooro Punk
timeine, forcadropantanco fo pop-purk
breakinginto the mainsiream and agreater
‘emphasis on eamestness and eslings,but
fINFEST, CROSSED OUT, and CRUDDS have
falectto canvince, s urdkely IHUMANITYs
the Nuty Antchrst il domuch o crag
youyobs claser toenightenment Of the six
cuts in question s my least favorte, though
ot romarkably 501 oud and chaotic,a
forebear o the sy whit belt anomiacs.
St 0 come, with petuant senso of humor
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‘som of the songs hit 2301 startoaking for
the skipbutton,amusing when wo consider
the two rack NoReason Why” 7 by Japans
JUDGEVENT. Both clear that mark. but once
th oxtramly 50s melodic o faly wraps.
the fuck up thoy it ho gas and naver ot up.
Utterand sbsolute manacism, and a peasant
star o this crash course of mosty unex-
plorod tortory.

Whi the Wre 100 mosty falls utside of this
‘200l purviow, Mt gave ma froorelgn, 50
blame hm An aneccita:one tme,amostly
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were al fucking theater kid,prefrring Sutton
Fosters onditon over ‘Anythng Goas over
PatiLuponess,so what the fuck do they know
anyway? Pete’ “Nandpo'is abeautlul record
star 1o i though admitedy ack the
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