I caught up with Ergot recently to talk about punk and punk graffiti. Slim: When did you start writing Ergot? Ergot: Started writing Ergot in 2006 in Minneapolis. First crew was called BS (Black Sabbath), which was me and my friends' high school code for smoking weed, then later code for doing graffiti… PEB (Pigs Eye Boys), TKG (The Kind Gents), PTS (Philips Terror Squad/Paint The Streets), were all my original crews with my scummy punk/rocker friends in southside Minneapolis. A bunch of misfi...

The occidental world is so fucked up that it's making the president of Spain seem like a good president. Even if the decisions of this government are pure opportunism, and if it fuels the game of polarization that all right-wing politicians started, the (leftist) international opinion seems pretty good about Pedro Sánchez and his government. But that's what happens when everyone reads the headlines instead of the whole article. Let me say this loud and clear: Spain is not an oasis of the left, ...

ANON ANON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON Yeah, no, I get it. Someone might poke fun at you. Someone might poke holes in yer not-so-tidy whities. Someone might not like you. (Or, worse yet, someone just might...) i. LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AT THE GENOCIDE FACTORY A fun thing every December is the big, panopticon-sanctioned recap of one's consumption habits (co-sponsored by Big P-roductivity). "Look!," it says, "I'm engaged in arts and partake in culture! AMYL & THE SNIFFERS lurked in the ba...

I never traveled for punk fests like an early-2000s-style anti-globalization summit-hopper, but I have definitely been to my fair share. K-Town Hardcore Fest has always stood out for me. I've been twice: once in 2018 while driving GAZM and CELL on tour, and last year playing bass with TOTAL NADA. It's big, but not too big, with all the official shows happening at a single venue (the infamous Ungdomshuset), with an additional matinee or two happening off-site (including of course the BIKE WARS!)....

Contributed by Felix L.G #10 FUCKIN’ LOVERS - CRUCIFIXION OF THE MASSES This band is perfect. Captures the stupidity of the style like no one else today. I wonder if they will ever decide to drop the noise and play rock and roll like the later era SWANKYS when they decided to go ‘77 mode. I could really only love this band more if they did a total musical pivot that made everyone really upset. FFO: GAI, CONFUSE, ATROCIOUS MADNESS #9 BLACK DOG - SEWN INTO CONFUSION AUGH! FFO: DISCLOSE, FR...