NOFX Wonders If It’s Time for California to Secede
If you believe the stories, there is a significant number of people in California who want out of the union now that Donald Trump is president. Never a band to shy away from
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NOFX and Funny or Die Take on Big Pharma with New Video
The next NOFX album, First Ditch Effort, is due October 7. The third advance single from the album–a co-production with Funny or Die–takes on big pharma. Love the title, too.
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It Was Another Crazy Weekend for Violence and Death in Music
What is it with 2016? What’s with all the death and violence when it comes to music? Look what happened just this past weekend. There was the attack on the Radiohead listening party
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Random Music News for Saturday, March 5, 2016
Exactly four hundred years ago today, the Catholic Church banned De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Copernicus, which dared say that the earth wasn’t the centre of the universe. This really pissed off the Catholic
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Operas and Musicals from Weezer, NOFX and More
Item 1: Ever hear of Weezer’s Songs from the Black Hole sci-fi rock opera? It doesn’t really exist–yet it does. Item 2: Fat Mike from NOFX has written Home Sweet Home, an American
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Random Music News for Friday, November 7, 2014
I woke up in Edmonton this morning. Was that supposed to happen? Dee Snider is pissed that Taylor Swift is singing “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” He should just shut up and cash
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20th Anniversary Album Reissues Coming from Rancid and NOFX
That’s right: it’s been two decades since Rancid’s Let’s Go and NOFX’s Punk in Drublic came out on Epitaph. That means it’s time to revisit both with special editions. Both will be out
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Fear of a Punk Decade
The AV Club has this longish piece on how 1996 proved to be a major year in the world of punk. Lots of props to Canada’s Propagandhi, too. Everything was flying: spit, sweat,
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Weekly Top 11 Playlist: 20 December 2013 (The All-Xmas Edition)
Things I want for Christmas: (1) A Porsche 918, fully-optioned. (2) A continent-wide ban on anything named “Kardashian.” (3) People to stop clapping whenever a contestant selects a Double Jeopardy clue. It’s unnecessary.
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