New Releases

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 05:33 AM

<b>HOT ROD CIRCUIT-IF IT'S COOL WITH YOU, IT'S COOL WITH ME</b>



Returning with their second full-length is Connecticut's incredible HOT ROD CIRCUIT. A year of constant touring has exposed the band to legions of fans (tours with At the Drive In, Get Up Kids, and Jimmy Eat World have gotten them all kinds of exposure), and they're not letting up. 11 tracks of heartfelt emo, indie pop at its finest. A split single with The Anniversary is due out on Vagrant this fall, and the band will continue to be on the road constantly. On Big Wheel Recreation - more info on the band here...

Posted by punky    on Wednesday, January 17, 2001

Is it possible to have good without evil?

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 03:43 AM

Good question.  Here are some thoughts about how that might relate to our issues... 

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Perceptually, there can be no light without dark.  That is, we need to know moral contrasts before we can perceive a 'moral dimension' or 'act morally'.

Psychologically, there is no way we are going to 'educate out the evil' in people's minds.  We all experience times when we feel like killing someone, or are tempted to 'get by with' something that might benefit us in the short term.

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Any 'future utopia' which does not recognize these things will either (1) never happen, or (2) be based on denial. ...

Posted by punky    on Wednesday, January 17, 2001

Why we don't need the police

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 03:37 AM

On the 24th November my Ford Cortina station wagon was stolen in the early hours of the morning from my house in Silverton, Pretoria.

The police opened a docket on the theft.  The local private visible policing service could not help.

I asked some of my comrades in Mamelodi to help me find the vehicle.

In early December I heard that a certain local car thief called "gloveman" who had written-off his previous Ford Cortina station wagon in an accident was now driving a cream coloured Ford Cortina station wagon...

Posted by punky    on Wednesday, January 17, 2001

UNITY SUCKS#5 OUT ON FRIDAY!!

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 03:36 AM

Hello to you all,

It took us a while but UNITY SUCKS#5 is finally ready. It will be in the shops on Saturday (in Belgium a little bit later). This time we have interviews with NYHC legends Sick Of It All and the Dutch Hooligans Discipline. Ofcourse we have 20+ reviews, some gigs and news. UNITY SUCKS#5 is again totally FREE and printed 3000 times and spread all over Holland and Belgium.

UNITY SUCKS#6 will be out in March an we already did an interview with Dropkick Murphys for that. So please keep on sending your promo stuff. Ofcourse we need ad's, so get in touch for our prices.
Hope to hear from you,
Serge van Uden

UNITY SUCKS
Postbus 4269
5604 EG Eindhoven
Holland
Tel/Fax: +31-(0)40-2110953
info@unitysucks.nl
www.unitysucks.nl

Posted by punky    on Wednesday, January 17, 2001

LILO

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 03:33 AM

BACKGROUND
Alt-country/lo-fi rock band lilo is made up of two slanted and enchanted Durban fellows Alexander Sudheim and Graeme Barnes. Songwriter-in-chief Sudheim has been penning twisted tunes for many years, recording them on a 4-track and performing them in as many unlikely venues as possible, including parking garages, ice-skating rinks, Spanish roadsides, playgrounds and parties He also plays on "proper" stages in clubs and bars and festivals and such. Graeme "bottleneck" Barnes majestically fills his duties as king of the heartbreak slide guitar.

The object of the music is a kind of off-kilter story telling which has been variously described as broken-toothed mountain music, lo-fi alt-country-rock, imploded prairie poems, trail dust anthems, dirt road ditties and useless junk. ...

Posted by punky    on Wednesday, January 17, 2001

PUNKTUATION 2 - DETAILS & COMPETITION

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 02:57 PM

Hey hey!

PUNKTUATION 2 - DETAILS & COMPETITION

Prepare yourself for Punk2ation! Yip, it's that time of year again, the second Punktuation is happening soon! Here's the details:

Date: Saturday, 3 February 2001



Venue: Thrashers Skatepark, Serene Street, Menlyn, Pretoria
Bands: Pet Flyz, Rim 3, Still Thinking, ATFN & Fuzigish
Entrance: Only R20
Other/Events: Food Stalls, Nitrous Gas (Laughing Gas) Bar,

Posted by punky    on Tuesday, January 16, 2001

CrossingPoint have a track on a straightedge compilation

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 02:55 PM

CrossingPoint have a track on a straightedge


compilation!

As a worldwide first, Commitment Records Holland have compiled a collection of straightedge bands from 41 different countries around the world and put out a 7" vinyl box set...

Posted by punky    on Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Aids terror grips SA schools and universities

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 02:54 PM

By Moshoeshoe Monare on <a href=http://www.iol.co.za>Independent Newspapers Online

Aids will become the biggest single killer of teachers this year, a shock new report on the disease has found.

Up to 16 percent of teachers in other provinces - and 20 percent in KwaZulu Natal - are HIV-positive and between 7 percent and 8 percent of principals and heads of department in schools nationwide were infected with the disease at the end of last year.

Posted by punky    on Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Long Live Rock

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 02:53 PM

For all the ink that's been spilled about how we're living in a cultural moment dominated by bland, corporate pop music purchased by 11-year-olds; for every faux-obituary that's been written for two guitars, a bass and drums; for every profile that has for the sake of moving units downgraded U2's life mission from relieving Third World countries of their nightmarish debt to making the world safe for semi-tuneful wailing over guitar sonics; one fact stands in complete and utter opposition. On any individual stretch of I-70 between Baltimore and Cove Fort, Utah, at any time of the day, one need only begin turning the FM radio dial from 88.1 toward 107.9 to find someone, somewhere, playing a Bad Company song.

Posted by punky    on Tuesday, January 16, 2001

What it Takes to be World Class

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 02:52 PM

What kind of city do we want Cape Town to be? Who do we want to run it and what happens to the losers in the relentless quest to become a competitive, world-class urban centre? These questions lie at the heart of next week's local government election, and will have a great influence on the future of the city and its people.

By David McDonald

Posted by punky    on Tuesday, January 16, 2001