MY BIG STATEMENT ON THE PRESENT STATE OF CULTURE
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RECORD REVIEWS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR
A few weeks ago, my much younger downstairs neighbor moved out due to finding a better job in less of a shit hole area of the country.
INTERVIEW: THE LAZARUS PLOT
This interview with Laura Laurent and Mark Newton from late 90s Midwest emo band The Lazarus Plot was conducted in the summer of 2025 for the band biographies that accompanied the Sequoia seven-inch box set released by The Numero Group last year.
RESTACKED: PETE KOLLER INTERVIEW
This interview with Pete Koller of Sick Of It All was conducted in the fall of 2013 for my second book, NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980 – 1990. If you would like a signed copy of the book, feel free to send me a DM here on Substack.
INTERVIEW: RICK FROBERG FROM 2023
This interview with the late Rick Froberg (Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Obits) was conducted in March of 2023 for an article I wrote about San Diego Punk for The Wire. Copies of that issue of The Wire are still available through their website.
RESTACKED: TOMMY CARROLL INTERVIEW
In celebration of the announcement of legendary NYHC unit Straight Ahead reuniting for two already sold-out shows at the Brooklyn Monarch this April, I am dusting off the uncut interview conducted with Straight Ahead vocalist Tommy Carroll on 10/18/13 for my book
INTERVIEW: JERRY A LANG
This interview with Jerry A Lang of Poison Idea was conducted in September of last year for the liner notes that accompanied the recent release on TKO Records, Pearls Before Swine: The Early Years Volume II. The album contains two live sets from the bands’ line-up prior to Tom “Pig Champion” Roberts — one from New Years Eve 1980 and the other from June of 1981. In the interview we discussed Poison…
FROM THE ARCHIVES: JERRY WILLIAMS INTERVIEW FROM 2008
This interview with the late Bad Brains producer and sound man Jerry Williams was conducted in the fall of 2008 for a Village Voice article promoting the A7 reunion show at the Knitting Factory that December, which featured Urban Waste, The Abused, and many other first-wave NYHC bands.
AN HONEST APOLOGY
Once again, I am sorry for the silence over here.
INTERVIEW: SAHAN JAYASURIYA
Sahan Jayasuriya is the author of the recently released and highly excellent Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen. Covering all ten years of the Midwestern band’s existence,it is an enlightening read that follows them from their humble beginnings in the nascent American Hardcore underground to the creation of genre-smashing releases like October File (1986) and Century Days (1988).