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If you're anything of a innerwebs nerd like the rest of us, you've heard a thing or two about Reddit.com. It's basically the hive of what the internet has to offer - both good and bad. It's been almost 4 years since we ditched the old site and the message board along with it, and we thought it was about time to try out something new. If you don't already have a Reddit account, go sign up with one, and join the few stragglers who may or may not be waiting too much time on Reddit.com and our new r/azpunk message board. Have fun, punks!
This month, Andrew takes the reigns and we chat recap via Skype about Dishonour Dan's memorial show, a recent West End Crooks spotting, Way Out West Fest 2, Trunk Space's 8 year anniversary and what his band {pic} is up to. I also profess my love for Nick Other as well as ramble on, as usual.
In the podcast, you will hear me mention that our vinyl AZPunk banner sheltering Mikey in the top photo has seemed to come up missing after this year's WOW Fest. If anyone out there happens to know where that thing is, we . . .
Prepare accordingly.
Ross Wincek, the 47 year-old owner and bartender of the legendary Mesa watering hole Hollywood Alley, suffered a stroke recently leaving him to deal with the medical bills and mounting debts. He's lent a hand to nearly every band in town over the past two decades, and some of those bands hope to return the favor this Saturday with an event that . . .
It's hard to believe that it's been almost two years since we said goodbye to our good friend, Dishonour Dan. He would have been 32 next Friday on April 20, so we're getting together with family and friends and throwing him a birthday party. Come tip a 40 with us at this BYOB event, as we celebrate the life of our good buddy. There'll be a lot of familiar . . .
In this month's episode of our Pub Crawl podcast, we meet up with Corey, Eric, and Chad of Seas Will Rise at the Sun Up Brewery in Central Phoenix for a little microbrew time-off. It was my first time at Sun Up Brewery. Corey had recommended it, and any microbrew is a good microbrew, especially when it has a killer vanilla stout.
Last month we found out a little bit about their latest record Disease Is Our Refrain off Man in Decline Records, but with the podcast, we wanted to dig a little deeper into some of their inspiration behind the album, and their involvement in this year's Way Out West Fest in . . .
In the spirit of attempting to get things moving on this damn website again, we're going to continue experimenting more with our AZPunk Pub Crawl podcasts this year. Previously, we only scratched the surface by interviewing local music geeks like Mikey Wretch from Rumspringer (among many other bands) and the talented participants in our Thrash of the Titans 2 event back in late 2010. This year, we plan on digging much deeper and trying to pump out one of . . .
What's up AZ punks! Long time no post! Even tho we've been laying way low over the past year or so, we've been keeping tabs on some of the great local punk rock that continues to trek through the desert of social, political and personal turmoil. It would seem that when our little pocket of dust and sun reaches a tipping point, the aggressive creativity of our local talent tends to boil over. Case-in-point; the dark lovechild of heavy hitters, Said Gun, Landmine Marathon and Cagematch (three of my personal favorites from . . .
Unless you've been holed up in an underground bunker preparing for Arizona's race war, you've probably been hearing a little bit about the 3-day punk rock W.O.W. (Way Out West) Fest hitting Tucson in April. This massive festival of loud music, possible drunken and disorderly conduct, really really good friends, and a whole bunch of fuckin fun has been an idea that's been brewing for two of Tucson's local punk rock show-goers, Cameron Combs and Billy Brooks, since last summer.
In September of last year, Cameron and Billy began gathering music from punk bands across the West Coast and putting together compiltion albums to help promote the awesome sounds that travel in and out of their home town of Tucson. This was something of a concept that was near and dear to AZPunk's collective hearts, so we wanted to catch up with Cameron to pick his brain about these W.O.W. Fest . . .
Happy new year, Arizona punks! Well, it's been a long time since our first announcement of the Thrash of the Titans 2 event at the beginning of 2010, but finally, after the long months of organizing, practicing, performing, interviewing, recording, post-production, and the countless other steps it took to reach this point, we are proud to (finally) present the lot of AZPunk's Thrash of the Titans 2 documentation.
The multitude of talented and dedicated minds involved with this project from start to . . .
8pm @ Yucca Tap Room • 21+ • Free Show!
with The Biters (atlanta), The Dead Irrelevants
6pm @ Chasers • All Ages • $---
with Los Rudos, Red Store Bums, Consiencia Negra, Cultura Libertaria, Good Vibe, Wide Eyed
7pm @ See Details • All Ages • Free Show!
with The Sewn Seems (folk Punk, Maryland Mansion Records), Simon Wong (neofolk), Trevor Hedges, Shelton
7pm @ Missouri Room, The • All Ages • Free Show!
with River Of Oblivion, Adieux, Partners In Crime, Long Live, Puer Aeternus
7pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $??
with Alice Bag, Fluke Fanzine, And Others Tbd
7pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $6
with Whitman, Ezra Buckla, Tmammal, Goodamount, Paula., Catechuman
7pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $6
with Dragons (flag), Again Again (flag), Diners, Drainbow
8pm @ Trunk Space • All Ages • $5
with Chandails, Filardo, Gay Kiss
Researchers at AZPX's Epic Beard Dept. warn that under no circumstances should you taunt Daniel's epic beard.
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