Earth Crisis in ATL
My friends Chris and Jimmy are filling in on guitar and bass for a month-long tour with the seminal hardcore band Earth Crisis. I was really looking forward to not only seeing EC again but seeing two of my friends play in the band. EC’s original show in ATL fell through but thanks to some locals they were able to quickly put together a show with three local bands that turned out to be a very fun night reminiscent of the good ol’ hardcore shows I grew up going to in North Carolina. Here are some pics from the night.
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Most Precious Blood in Brooklyn
Most Precious Blood, a great contemporary hardcore band with ex-members of legendary Indecision, One King Down, etc., played Sunday night at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. It was MPB’s album release show for Do Not Resuscitate on Bullet Tooth Records. It was great seeing my good friend Matt Miller from ATL and Mr. Brannan who lives out in Bay Ridge. My pregnant wife even made a night of it as well as fellow Empirer Chris Walker. Great old school-feeling show. Be sure to check out the Indecision/Unbroken/Jesuit epic show on April 9. It’s sold out but if you can find a way in, make it happen.
North Carolina Hardcore Shirt Now For Sale
Do you remember growing up wearing Vision Streetwear shoes and idolizing the Bones Brigade and Powell-Peralta? Do you remember your first punk or hardcore show and the feeling of going to see your favorite band at 533 Uprisings with friends? I know I do and I know that no matter how much I wish we could revisit those days things will never be the same as they were back then. But that’s okay because we have the music, memories, stories and pictures. I designed this shirt with those days in mind.
The design of this shirt is inspired by the original Vision Streetwear logo but to those of us still representing and proud of where we came from it carries a stronger message. The shirts are printed on Canvas Greenwich apparel which has a feel and fit of AA. There will only be one printing of these gems in extremely limited quantities! Order yours today and wear it proudly wherever you live.
Since this is a very limited order all orders will be filled at the same time. Please allow about two weeks for delivery.
A Snow Day with Tattoos and Beards
After the blizzard of Xmas here in NYC finally began to become a little less stupid I wanted to get out and take advantage of the snow still around and set up some kind of a shoot. I called my friend Colby Smith who works at NewYork Adorned and asked if he’d be interested in “modeling.” Modeling for one of my shoots usually means just running around having fun and trying to pretend like I’m not there. Being the solid dude Colby is, he was of course down and he brought along Steve French of The End Records. The day shaped up beautifully with temperatures in the forties and a thick fog that rolled into the field at Prospect Park right as we began shooting. Steve did launch a snowball directly into the lens of my Hasselblad right off the bat but after that we got some great stuff. Check it out.
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Yellow is the New Pink Interview
Wow I’m really on top of things. I was interviewed a while ago by a music blog called Yellow is the New Pink. The interview was about my book Out of Step: Faces of Straight Edge and my involvement in the hardcore/punk music scene. Well I just came across the interview today. Being interviewed about yourself is strange and awkward, at least for me, but it forces you to think about things in a different perspective.
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