KEVIN K gets heavier with this new album that was recorded in a cold basement in Detroit after living under the sun of Florida. Opening with a heavy metal guitar riff on “Broken”, Kevin then pays tribute to The LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH with a song of the same name made up of a collage of their lyrics. The garage sound gets even dirtier with “Wrong Way To Hell” and its nod to BLACK SABBATH and the mood turns heavier with “The Lost Seahorse.” You’ll also hear a tribute to 70s punk and rock’n’roll fallen heroes in “Prayers Of Life”, some ’77 punk (“Lonely Soul”) and some chaotic punk rock’n’roll with “On The Other Side”. The LORDS‘ ghost appear again in “Right Roulette” and things calm down a bit with the grungy instrumental “Winter 22” before going full SABBATH on “Catacomb Heart.” You’ll even hear some double bass drum on “Truth Is The Sword” and one of Kevin’s favourite covers : “Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth” (DEAD BOYS.) This is quite an adventurous album for KEVIN K who played all instruments on it. His black album for darker ages. /Laurent C.
“The rise of censorship, the rise of the suppression of religious freedoms, of property rights, closing a million businesses without just compensation or due process, the abolition of jury trials, which are guaranteed by the Sixth and Seventh Amendment for any vaccine company that hurts you, all of these — and the rise of a kind of track-and-trace surveillance state has been troubling to people, both Democrats and Republicans. During that first year, we literally got rid of every amendment to the Constitution except the Second Amendment. We have a government today that is scared of its people. And I say to this, if people want integrity, they should vote for me. If people want to protect the Constitution, they should vote for me. If people think that the Bill of Rights is still relevant, they need to vote for me.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
“Our ruling class isn’t protecting us from disinformation, they are keeping us from the truth. Nothing like watching neutral corporate media take every chance they can to smear the people running against
Joe Biden in a Democrats primary race where they have already said they refuse to allow any debates
. These are the people who are gonna save our make believe democracy. Our Gov’t, media and Big Pharma can never admit that they all worked together and put profits over telling the truth during a time as terrifying as the pandemic was for our citizens and people all over the world. Even when the proof of what they did is now undeniable. We have reached the point where telling the truth about the jab will get you erased faster than telling the truth about Ukraine and all the other atrocities the US is involved in with our foreign policy around the world. Our rulers are using the politicians and the media that they own to censor the truth and make us believe that their lies are reality.
It’s not Russia or China, it is us Americans who are the most propagandized population in the world We have reached the point where telling the truth about the jab will get you erased faster than telling the truth about Ukraine and all the other atrocities the US is involved in with our foreign policy around the world. Iraq War Phil Donohue “MSNBC top rated show”, and Ashleigh Banfield fired, Jesse Ventura’s contract cancelled and Chris Hedges forced out of NY Times, all for telling the truth. Ukraine War. Tucker Carlson, only one not afraid to tell the truth, forced out. Pentagon celebrates.” (-Black In The Empire)
“Tony Blair and Bush have not been charged till this day. Obama is still free, after murdering Gaddafi and destroying Libya. We don’t want the ICC’s hypocrisy to apply here in our country. “
(—South Africa’s EFF Commander-in-Chief, Julius Malema)
PROCRASTINATING ON A SUNDAY
Where I grew up, it was actually the richer people who did most of the “bad behavior”. Ya know-think about it…who had all the access to underage booze and cocaine? Rich kids. Who beat up smaller people just because they can? Rich kids. Who got away with doing all kindsa dispicable hometown harms and still strut around like BMOC’s in their fat fucking fifties? The rich kids, which is kinda why I was never into the copaganda shows like, “COPS” , that always portrayed policemen as these sensitive, selfless Superman social workers being ever so patient with all the shirtless trailer trash domestic violence crazies and all those daytime tv shows, where producers encouraged adulterous poor people to come on their shows and fight it out. So yeah I was just thinking about how I always detested the way Jerry Springer gleefully exploited poor people on his stupid sensationalist show, but a comrade pointed out to me how he was a staunch advocate for free speech, and in this post Constitutional, post truth age where only billionaires get to decide what speech is legal and what speech gets deplatformed, where legacy media is even brazenly editing the shit out of Robert F. Kennedy videos for the crime of actually knowing the real science and citing the real studies and statistics and fighting for free speech and talking about industry capture of our regulatory agencies on tv, I will take a brief moment to say Cheers to a media personality who did not promote censorship as woke and progressive or scientific or any of that shit, like all the millionaires on tv they pay pay big money to lie to us peasants everyday about every topic. I guess I should be out there working on weeding the yard, but of course I’m here inside listening to the new Damned album, “Darkadelic” which is fantastic by the way, and also that fabulous Richard Duguay record I’ve been raving about! What would I like to do on a Sunday? I’d like to fetch a couple of 12 packs and invite the desert rat musicians over to help me bash out summa these new tunes I’ve been writing, but family obligations kindof prevent that from being a viable possibility today, so that is a real thorn in the side of the afternoon, here. I don’t wanna weed the yard or clean the catboxes, honestly. I wanna rock. I never hear any quality fucking real rocknroll in these horrible modern times, but man, when I do get a good daily reccomended dose of nutritious rocknroll it does kinda restore the pep to your step, if ya know what i’m sayin’, my brothers and sisters and friends of the revolution. I love the Damned and Richard Duguay so much. They show ya how it’s done. I’m supposed to be getting things ready for a possible visit from outta town family which can always get real dicey for many reasons, when coping with all the usual anxiety-parenting, inflation, bills, all that, it helps immensely to at least have some real genuine rocknroll music being made at a true standard of excellence. Not that many people still know how to do it, which is why I’m always surprised that no one asks me, anymore. I’m better than ever.
It’s kinda funny how intensely impacted I was as a kid from smalltown Kentucky by all these eighties post punk new wavers and eccentric goths from England, but that was the stuff that made me first really, really wanna be in bands, have a rdio show, write songs, create wild looks, publish my own fazines, host parties, appear on cable access cult tv, all that.
You know I read every book about the old punk, new wave, goth, glam, and new roamntic movements I can get my arthiritic old hands on. I’ve always been a distant fan of Phillip Sallon, cause he was the Original Club Kid, really influenced all the Perri Listers, Rusty Egans, Princess Julias, Marilyns and Martin Degvilles and Steve Stranges and Boy George. He kinda reminded me of a death rock Quintin Crisp, one of the old school proto Blitz Club scenemaker-designer-event organizer-nightlife celebrities back when nightlife meant something. In the eighties, it was not enough to just have wealthy parents and go to the bar every night, you were expected to like, contribute, create, compose, invent, innovate, perform. Phillip was part of the original first wave of Sex Pistols-Malcolm-Vivienne-Bromley Contingent punks, he ran a night called Planets back in 81 and his protegee George O’Dowd was the DJ. In 83, he promoted another venue called Mud Club not to be confused with NYC’s Mudd Club, his was in Leicester Square in collaboration with McClaren for all the fabulous stars of Smash hits magazine and The Face and I.D. I always vibed with Sallon cause I used to kinda promote my own after hours salons in various dark basements and tattoo parlors and sticky keg party basement speakeasies and always enjoyed being host to all the fabulous flames at all our old school rent party shindigs and rooftop luaus. I’ve also been beaten savagely by dumbfuck nazi homophobes and rednecks and fratboys for cutting a dash in conservative hellholes.
“You’re Not Deficient, You’re Just Ruled By Assholes.
In a totalitarian dystopia that’s held together by mass-scale psychological abuse, it’s entirely reasonable that people are finding themselves struggling with despair, alienation, depression and anxiety. “There’s no reason we can’t provide for everyone while technological advancement gives us all more and more free time. There’s no reason we can’t learn to live in collaboration with each other and with our ecosystem instead of in competition for the benefit of a few abusers. It’s actually amazing anyone’s functioning at all in a civilization that’s ruled by exploiters & abusers who dominate the world using mass-scale psychological manipulation.It’s a testament to human resilience that anyone is sane.
When everyone’s mind is always being pummeled…Everything seems phony, meaningless and needlessly difficult because it is. This isn’t a statement about human nature or life as it naturally exists, it’s a statement about the artificially constructed systems we live under currently.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
They are defending a genocidal NATO puppet regime set up after a US-led coup in 2014. They do so because they instinctively recognize that a non-subservient Russia & China represent a challenge to US hegemony, and thus their privilege. (-Primo Radical)
Another English band my former old punk crowd and me were quite thrilled by back in the day was Age Of Chance-we were all big Clash-Big Audio Dynamite-Dead Or Alive-Nena Cherry-Prince fans, and AGE OF CHANCE were a super cool and sleek new hybrid of all that lot! We had endeavored to sortof combine our own love of old Suicide and Sputnik and early rap influences as well, but usually, it would end up us playing with the primitive drum machines and casios on the guitar player’s cold cement floor and us three goths pretty much just getting drunk with my hip hop friends rather than really pioneering any great new wave crossover like when Afraka Bombatta and Johnny Lydon merged their genres.
FORGET THE SCRIPT! BREAK YOUR PROGRAMMING! BOYCOTT PIG MEDIA! IT’S ALL LIES, ANYWAY!
“Poverty can be really stressful, the inflation is no joke, everything doubled where we are post Covid clampdowns and ya know in July the Biden admin is supposed to drop some cashless society bullshittery. I can’t stand the tv watching mainstream identity politricks shitlibs. The gentrification motherfuckers can kiss my ass. At least the rightwing gun nut ranchers out here will leave you alone. The Kalltha Kops Karens were ruining my life up in Eugene and saying it was for sensitivity, pro noun etiquette, veganism, feminism and transkids rights, but really it was just some Gladys Kravitch nosy motherfuckers trying to control their environment by calling the cops on the loud autistic kid.” (-General Labor)
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