Inspiring Music Series- The Scissor Girls – Awesome Band History!
April 1, 2014
The Scissor Girls were a No Wave band who played shows in the 1990’s and were based out of Chicago, IL. I saw them perform at a show in California…
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Inspiring Music Series – Janelle Hessig – Panty Raid
March 25, 2014
Panty Raid was extremely catchy, lo-fi, fuzzy, and super fun band. They released a 7″ record called “The Secret’s Out” on Raw Sugar Records in the year 2000. When I…
Inspiring Music Series – Michelle Gonzales drummer of Spitboy
March 18, 2014
When I first started going to underground music shows in the early 1990’s most bands were made up of straight, white boys in their early 20s. When I saw the…
Inspiring Music Series – Doughnuts – Swedish all female Hardcore band
March 11, 2014
Doughnuts was the first all female hardcore band I ever heard of. They were on Victory records, so remained relegated to the “straight edge” sub-genre of Hardcore, so many folks…
Inspiring Music Series – Tribe 8
March 4, 2014
Using their own words: “Tribe 8 is considered one of the first queercore groups, they take their name from the practice of tribadism, a “tribe eight” being a play on…
Peter Glantz directed Death Vessel Video Released Today!
February 25, 2014
Peter Glantz directed this ethereal and brilliant video with Death Vessel. The whole album and video were just unleashed upon the world today! Check it out!
Inspiring Music Series- LiLiPUT – Swiss Band from the 1970s – 1980s
February 25, 2014
Trying to describe LiLiPUT renders me speechless. This band has had a huge influence over me and many of my musical peers. They have carved a legacy which has influenced…
Inspiring Music Series- Shonen Knife!
February 18, 2014
This is a little series of music videos of bands who have influenced me over the years. These are bands whose awesome drummers have not been given the recognition they…
Inspiring Music Series – Mo-dettes
February 14, 2014
There is mega issues with the mainstream culture marginalizing and ignoring the brilliant cultural production of women, queer folks, and people of color. With the necessity for us to tell…
The Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages
February 10, 2014
A tumblr devoted to an Anarchist comic strip:
Whistleblowers and the 1971 break-in of an FBI field office
February 4, 2014
Burglars who took on the FBI abandon shadows
A Call To Halt. Exhibition by Brandon Bauer
December 27, 2013
A Call To Halt: A multimedia installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and of the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987 is a new project…
New video from The Coup feat. Japanther- “Long Island Iced Tea, Neat”
December 7, 2013
The Coup surfaces to serve up the official video premiere of “Long Island Iced Tea, Neat” – a stop-motion social commentary on the epidemic of police brutality and racial profiling…
In Memory of The Buddy Cat
December 7, 2013
One of my closest and oldest friends, The Buddy Cat (“B” to those who knew her well), passed away while I held her in my arms the week before this…
We are the Universe!
November 19, 2013
Today is the official launch of the newest “WorldWord” short video series. This is a collaboration between Becky Stark, Peter Glantz, and Kevin Hooyman. This series premiered on the relaunch…
The Historical Imagination
November 19, 2013
On a grim and drippy morning earlier this week I sat in my house reading an article about slave capitalism in the magazine n+1, specifically a review of Walter Johnson’s…
Braddock Neighborhood Print Shop
October 24, 2013
The Neighborhood Print Shop is a beautiful community based printing space in Braddock, PA. Braddock is a small town about 7 miles outside of Pittsburgh, a site of one of…
What Happened in Grenada in 1983?
October 23, 2013
Bill Bigelow, co-director of the Zinn Education Project, has another quick and lucid history lesson up. This week, identifying yet another sore gap in our popular history textbooks, he’s illustrating…
Justseeds Studio Visits (Pete & Thea)
October 16, 2013
Here’s another new series which I’m going to do for the blog, in which I ask members of Justseeds to take pictures of where they make their work, ask them…
Justseeds Sponsors Narco Cultura at the Milwaukee Film Festival
September 23, 2013
Justseeds is sponsoring a film at the Milwaukee Film Festival this year. It looks fantastic. Narco Cultura – USA | 2012 |…