Hyperactive musician JOE NORMAL has finally put most of his singles together on one album. “Small Town Factory”, “Bayway Refinery” and “Living In The Borough” pay homage to his hometown Elizabeth, New Jersey mixing nostalgia and blue collar stories. “Setback” offers us an interesting mix of blues and electronic percussions while “New England Girl” offers us some well-arranged romantic pop. On the other hand, you’ll hear a touch of sadness in “I Ain’t No” and in “Warinanco Pond” as well as a bit of psychedelism in “Is It My Imagination”. The BEATLES influence is quite obvious when listening to these songs especially in “Ya Gotta Open Your Heart” or in “The Usung Heroes That Time Never Knew”. Joe describes is music as Glamericana and that’s quite a good word for it when you listen to “Summer Jobs” or “We Are The Normal”. Former ZEROS member is now turning into a working class hero, make sure you listen to this album. /Laurent C.
“A summary of Joe Biden’s presidency in two figures: $886 billion for the military industrial complex. $0 for the poisoned people of East Palestine.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Whatever you think of the SVB bailout, I want you to really sit with the fact that rich VC’s just got an Insta bailout while the people of East Palestine can’t even get a straight answer as to whether their kids have been poisoned.” (-Krystal Ball)
FREE SPEECH DOES NOT MEAN SPEECH THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD OR SPEECH THAT YOU AGREE WITH!
I understand if people protesting the construction of an enormous IDF style urban military training facility funded by like 25 private corporations in the Atlanta forest is not everybody’s cause, but when a citizen is shot to death while sitting cross legged with his hands up, witnesses say he had no gun, that cops were returning friendly fire, and presented zero bodycam evidence that they had any legit reason to “fear for their lives” and all those people demonstrating against assassination of a treesitter kid are imprisoned without bail and charged with domestic terrorism, we are not free, which is why I stood with the Capital Hill Maga people’s right to protest, even though defending Donald J. Trump is certainly not my personal preferred cause. I’ve seen footage of Qshaman being ushered around by cops in the capital. Big media coverup of the cop city killing and dozens of protestors being charged with “terrorism” by the extrajudicial state executioners, sheesh, just like in east Palestine purposeful chemical burn making people sick and killing pets and wildlife and destroying all those farms on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border where they wanna get rid of the Amish and strip mine for cobalt. Cops there are branding Erin Brockovich a terrorist for organizing sick people against Blackrock.
BUCKCHERRY ARE STILL MAKING ENERGETIC SLEAZY EIGHTIES HAIR METAL! UNREAL!
I might go to see some new wave bands but I do not even understand how all the sports and events people can stand to shell out hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to be herded into stadiums like livestock and just see pre recorded bullshit and greedy old men going through the motions of pretending to play forty year old songs in wigs with big screens and pyro. Guns N Roses and Poison and the Crue are just like so not rocknroll to me at this point, they are mainstream moneymaking machines, might as well be fucking Foo Fighters and none of them can really write good songs anymore. That “Hard Skool” song did not even get one vote at Sleaze Roxx year end poll. Which makes sense cause they just aint got it anymore, no music people wanna hear those shite covers they play with their twenty piece employee orchestras. Shoulda consented to equal sharing the loot with Izzy.
I was preachin to all the people I used to know all the way back in the Sub-Pop years that some mediocre bands were being applauded and praised not because their songs rang with any lasting truth or conveyed any real emotions or featured any artistic innovations. Starting around that time, post college radio, post grunge, lots of these trustafarians were being applauded because their parents were wealthy and gave them shit. There was very little in the way of real art or music happening, it was all tribute band fourth hand retro imitation coverband rehash, but people were very excited by some tailored high end clothing, or vintage looking musical appartus-all it takes, I blame all that “The Hills” and “Kardashians” and Jake Paul influencer unreality show get rich Spin magazine lifetstyle programming. People were not even listening for good songs, it’s like they were giving a standing ovation to the price of all the shit the hipster bands owned. I’ve never been much of a pricetag praiser, personally. I even liked summa the hairspray metal bands a bit better than much of the hoax alternative and inheritance-indie shit that followed Cobain’s death.
I’ve said before how I thought that cool lookin’ Jetboy suffered from a certain lyrical dumbness in spite of all their snazzy apparel, although I do think “Don’t Touch My Hair” is a great song title for a glam band, but I felt like American Heartbreak really had a promising awareness of like, what makes a song at least above average, if not always exceptional, rather than just some halfass metalhead genre exercise like you know, “Feel The Shake/Feel The Earth Shake”, I mean that’s some sub Quiet Riot writing there in my opinion, but people loved it, I dunno know how, but metalheads don’t ask alot from their bands, do they? You know I totally can say that about that “Feel The Shake” chorus just always being dumb to me, but alsoeasily still agree Jetboy were infinitely better than some of the other also ran, lesser band, stupid spandex monkeys of the Sunset Strip. After reaching a higher peak of being able to write better, more power pop influenced songs with American Heartbreak, you’d think the Jetboy/American Heartbreak guy, Billy Rowe would encourage Buck Cherry’s still energetic livewire frontman Josh Todd to wanna work harder on his lyric writing, cause as a collective nowadays, they seem to have such renewed promise with Rowe onboard but it seems to kinda imply a band are more career oriented than art oriented when they are kinda lazily goin’ through the party time halfhearted heavy metal parking lot songwriting motions, ya know what I’m sayin’? With all the revolving door lineup brands especially like Guns N Roses and L.A. Guns, it seems many of the aging headbands are coasting on their old fame rather than feeling any urge to create anything new, or vital, or lasting, or meaningful for their fans.Most all the remaining hairbands seem primarily money oriented, hawking overpriced t shirts, overpriced Cameos, overpriced meet n greets, and playing big venues for the bread. Buck Cherry and Kix both seem harder working than most of their contemporaries though and both of those bands at least always endeavor to at least give the fans a real worthwhile, energetic live show. Vince has turned into Sam Kinison. Who even knows who is in L.A. Guns this week? Both guys are such complainer divas. I think Frankie Delmane from the Crazy Squeeze is more talented and authentic than any of the big money tattooed millionaire ex glam guys on the festival circuit.
When they have some halfway decent songs, like they did on their first record, Buck Cherry aren’t bad at all, probably even better than their original role models Guns N Roses, post-Appetite, I loved that first album and still consider it to be the last real good hard rock album to crack the mainstream. Songs like, “Lawless & Lulu”, “Borderline”, “For The Movies” and “Lit Up” are still echoing loudly through my traumatized old numbskull in spite of the fact that I went on a date with a hot girl named Ginger once to a meathead bar in the midwest and had to excuse myself early cause she could not stop talking about Josh Todd, but after that masterpiece sleaze metal landmark debut record, they seem to generate a relentless surplus of only so-so, ho-hum formulaic stuff after their Steve Jones produced first record, ya know? I mean I understand it gets ’em on the radio, the sniveling, syrupy autopilot ballads, but like, that “Sorry” song was awful in my opinion, “Ridin” sounded like nu metal, Korn or Limp Bizkit, almost. I don’t mind even the second string Buck Cherry tunes in small does, but I always want them to be better than they are, they’re just kindof like generic Waxl knockoffs and if they applied themselves, they might have turned into a timelessly good rock band, but they seem lazy in the songwriting department, like they don’t really make much of an effort to say anything that really means much or has any real heart invested in it, cause it’s seemingly enough to jump up an down and sound like poorman’s “Appetite” imitations, I mean I get that there is an audience for that, probably the same demigraphic who Brett Michaels appeals to, but just really not satisfying my desire to have a really good rocknroll band to listen to, they are like 1/4 of what a rocknroll band should be in my book, cause you know, I am a lyrics guy, I felt that way about a popular English band, too. And oh man, Steel Panther are THE WORST. I can not stand joke rock with dumb goofy fucking idiotic horndog fratboy lyrics, although I think Ralph is a formidable frontman like when he sings Roth’s lyrics. Just way too stupid for me to even try to sit through. Like I WANNA like these groups, but I should not have to make such an effort. Like that “Crazy Bitch” song, I know exactly what’s he’s sayin’, I been there, but the unimaginative power ballads and jump up and down scuzzmetal anthems just fall short, like Skid Row without Sebastian is even better than summa Buck Cherry’s lesser material, you know the “Gang’s All Here” version with that new guy who sings real high, but aint Sebastian who the fans all prefer. Or those terrible songs Nikki Sixx knocks out nowadays, like that shit with Machine Gun Whatsisname on the Dirt soundtrack that Tommy seems to think was good. Last thing I kinda even begrudgingly liked by Motley Crue was “Saints Of Los Angeles” and I don’t even know if Nikki wrote it, really, I think his friend might have. I guess in the hair metal world, nobody cares about writing really good songs, but like, to me, if you had all that access, and big studios and all that, why wouldn’t you want your songs to be great? Cause like Nikki Sixx is capable of writing really good songs, but he’s just become too content cashing checks for playing big stadium shows and just trading on his first four albums, I guess that’s what happens when you make all that big money. You end up not having anything real to say. I liked “Angel Down” by Sebastian Bach. That Brett Michaels retro road anthem, you know, it was okay on a commercial country kinda way, but yeah, man where are all the good rocknroll bands at? Been 25 years of like at best, rich kids throwing their money around, showing off their expensive clothes and playing covers, basically-I’m not really into it, at all. Like, yes, I see you wearing nice clothes but so what, most of these modern bands that kids all like and even old farts who should no better, and be more discerning, by now, it’s pitiful the way they all line up to applaud the clothes and money posers-“Money and Threads” was the title of a song I wrote about the Strokes like 25 years ago, I was sayin’ that’s all they got goin’, no real effort ever goes into being real at all, it’s just primping around with fancy hats and people seem to love all that-all that’s required is fucking having money ya know what I’m sayin’? People just throwin cash in the air like late nineties douchebag rappers. Showing off their $500 hats and bragging non stop about how they have sugar daddies, obviously, pumping money into them non stop for like only average to boring genre hag rehash. Sugar daddy rawk, gentrification bands with showbiz uncles, don’t do much for me besides getting on my nerves, really. Zero danger, zero heart, minimal commitment, and no originality or intimate expression, ya know? Capitalism Brats. Fuckin A man, just not my thing at all, but I was watching some John Varvatos produced show about women in rock and it was really good actually-Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, Patti Smith, Ricky Lee Jones, Romeo Void, Pat Benatar and Heart, X Ray Spex, Macey Gray, not enough Sinead or Chrissie Hynde in my opinion, but it was pretty rad at first but then they jump the shark by trying to impose these corporate narratives about how Beyonce is so great because she sells a lotta records. Her best song I ever heard was “Put A Ring On It” which is supposed to pass for some kinda feminist empowerment statement, and she did not even write it, some dude did. “Ring on it”, ya know? Cause diamonds. I dunno why people go along with the story about how Diddy, Kany, Beyonce and Jay Z are supposedly artistic geniuses rather than just admitting the corporations have chosen to thrust all those people on us, they are rich, that is true, but I don’t see the art part. Biggie writing about the black music magazines in his room was endearing, Kanye sampling Ray Charles was a good choice I guess, but overall, I’m not into any of the Capitalist Rappers anymore than the gentrification brunch Nephew Rockers. Faster Pussycat and the Hangmen and Junkyard and Circus Of Power still kickass, but Buck Cherry are like Guns N Roses understudies. One record and that was really it. I still begrudgingly liked a smattering of tunes from their dozen studio lps since that smash hit debut. At least they know how to rock. “Lit Up” never gets old. L.A. Guns are still okay but man it’s sad they can’t keep a lineup together-I know how that is. It’s even harder if you can’t command some Headbanger’s Ball fame headliner nightclub guarantees. I will say Carrie Underwood who I’m basically unfamilar with really seems to be killin’ it here with her Axl appearance. Carmine Appice sez his friend Mick Mars is happier now going back to playing guitar rather than being part of the pre programmed stadium ticket selling machine. I always kinda root for Mick Mars.
Thrill seekers, fun lovers, and rebellious spirited appreciators of Bowie, Clash, and Beatlesque power pop are all ginned up about the new CD “Public Works” by underground power pop and glam icon, Joe Hutchinson, who you might know as the pop songbird behind the Anytown’rs and Hutch, or style maverick guitar hero of such stalwart punkroll bands as Cold Blue Rebels, Slow Motorcade, and the legendary purple haired Zeroes who once had the Coconut Teaszer painted in their honor while lining all the glam brats up around the block to see their memorable shows, back in the last gasps of the glam daze. He is one of the more talented musicians in the American scene and it is a mystery to most everybody who knows anything about real rocknroll, how he has managed to successfully avoid becoming assimilated into the big mainstream star making machinery. He’s so talented at everything, a stellar guiatrist, solid lyricist, sings great, knows about how to be a team player and how to put high quality lineups together and promote himself. I’ve been a fan of his for a long time and continue to be impressed by his prolific songwriting abilities. His band the Anytown’rs played Cheap Trick level rocknroll, just listen to their fabulous tune, “Into The City Tonight”!
Into The City Tonight – Joe Normal & The Anytown’rs (lyrics) – YouTube
…was the name of my first Elvis Costello lp when I was 13 or 14 and also a big new wave and goth festival in California that will feature Siouxsie, Iggy, Billy, Adam, Echo, League, Numan, Modern English, Vapors, ABC, Motels, Animotion, and many more I am just too old to know about along with a Love & Rockets reunion, they will be playing four more shows together after Cruel World, and although Daniel Ash has said he’s bored by performing the Love & Rockets back catalog, his legions of fans remain very excited and devoted. Did I tell you how much I love that insanely genius David J solo Record?
“”The international bourgeoisie, under the leadership of U.S.-based capital has declared war on collective humanity — and it does not hide its intent.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“They’re gonna bail out banks while you starve to make ends meet. What a country.” (-Thia Ballerina)
“Over 10 million children live in poverty in the US, so send $100 billion to Ukraine. Biden keeps telling us how great the economy is doing, but everytime I go to the Supermarket all I do is here people complaining about how hard it is to afford their groceries now. The Establishment has got to find a way to stop Trump from running again, because he might win by too big a margin to stop him. Many countries in the Global South see a better future for themselves partnering with China and no longer want to bullied, threatened, robbed and told how they have to live by the United States. Zelensky could have honored the Minsk Agreement instead of letting the US use his country in a Proxy war they’d been trying to start for decades
What has he got for his decision? Is Ukraine in NATO, a part of the EU?
No, they are being destroyed like every country the US uses.
If we stop letting our Gov’t lie us into wearing blindfolds, and take them off we won’t see the rosy picture they’re painting, we will see reality.
The reality is that the once powerful Empire called America is crumbling and desperately trying to maintain their grip on power.” (-Black In The Empire)
JOHN DISSED I’ve been reading that Michael Goldberg book about how the sixties Beat Poets really influenced Bob Dylan and that got me thinking about how Steve Earle was kinda our last real significant musical social commentator in this country…until the arrival of Kennedy investigating podcasting songwriting hero and all around, righton power to the people activist, Mister John Dissed, who was sortof discovered, or brought to my attention, by the leftist power pop champion Anthony Castillo, the songwriting guiding force behind that nineties Los Angeles supergroup, SLOW MOTORCADE. John Dissed is sortof like a modernday equivalent to Billy Bragg or TV Smith or even Roger Waters, he is really just so smart and talented and a true freedom fighter. I follow John Dissed on Twitter and listen to all his podcasts and you should, too. He is a very well informed, serious researcher, sortof like Jimmy Dore or Whitney Webb….WITH GUITARS! I can’t say enough good things about the guy, he is absolutely dynomite! Check out his Only Rebels Left Alive music podcast!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVmkYcxrPQ
“What about the importance of giving everyone Healthcare in this country? Our government has no problem rescuing banks…but they won’t rescue the people.” (-Sabby Sabs)
“”In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” (-Kwame Ture)
“Liberals hate leftists because they are a constant reminder that liberals are not the thing they appear to be.” (-Caitlin Johnstone who has way more patience for fauxwoke empty virtue signaling than I do.)
“Reminder The people that have you cheering on trying to get us into nuclear war with China and Russia will survive in their bunkers.
Where are you gonna go? Do people realize how ridiculous they sound when they argue that their Party is the honest one and the news networks they watch are the ones telling the truth?
Wake up both Parties are corrupt and all that corporate owned news you’re all watching is propaganda. We need to come together as a society and put an end to Nuland’s war. How many people do you think are struggling like hell still believing Biden telling them how great the economy is, simply because he’s a Democrat? No matter where the virus started, keep in mind that the US is now willing to say it started in Wuhan because they want to add it to the list for us to hate China, and they won’t mention that our Gov’t funded that research. You notice how the people that were calling everybody even skeptical of Big Pharma and our Gov’t that refused to take the vaccine, “anti-science and antivaxxers”, have conveniently ignored the science ever since it told a different story. I understand the job of Corporate “News” is to get views, push their Party narratives, spread State propaganda and to keep us divided. When both the Dems and GOP, and Fox and MSNBC are all telling us the same thing it isn’t a good thing, it means that there is something of extreme importance to the Owners that requires all their workers to brainwash the public.
The reason why I despise stations like MSNBC and CNN more is the way their TV personalities present themselves as morally superior.
So many questions now that the Saudis and Iranians have reestablished ties Will it bring an end to the war in Yemen? Will they both join BRICS? What does this mean for Syria? What happens to the dollar? While the US has been fueling their proxy war, the world is moving on.” (-Black In The Empire)
NONE OF THESE PRO CENSORSHIP DEM CLOWNS ARE PROGRESSIVE IN ANY WAY OR WILLING TO DEFEND ANY LIBERAL VALUE BESIDES SELLING OUT & EMPTY VIRTUE SIGNALING! DISGRACEFUL AUTHORITARIAN WHORES FOR BIG PHARMA AND WEAPON MAKERS!
“553K+ are homeless. 37M+ live in poverty. Millions are unable to afford health care and will go untreated. 42M+ are food insecure, 12M+ being children.
Things are getting worse and they aren’t even arguing anymore over how little to give you anymore.” (-Thia Ballerina)
FREE SPEECH DOES NOT MEAN SPEECH THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD OR SPEECH THAT YOU AGREE WITH!
I understand if people protesting the construction of an enormous IDF style urban military training facility funded by like 25 private corporations in the Atlanta forest is not everybody’s cause, but when a citizen is shot to death while sitting cross legged with his hands up, witnesses say he had no gun, that cops were returning friendly fire, and presented zero bodycam evidence that they had any legit reason to “fear for their lives” and all those people demonstrating against assassination of a treesitter kid are imprisoned without bail and charged with domestic terrorism, we are not free, which is why I stood with the Capital Hill Maga people’s right to protest, even though defending Donald J. Trump is certainly not my personal preferred cause. I’ve seen footage of Qshaman being ushered around by cops in the capital. Big media coverup of the cop city killing and dozens of protestors being charged with “terrorism” by the extrajudicial state executioners, sheesh, just like in east Palestine purposeful chemical burn making people sick and killing pets and wildlife and destroying all those farms on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border where they wanna get rid of the Amish and strip mine for cobalt. Cops there are branding Erin Brockovich a terrorist for organizing sick people against Blackrock.
“If those on the left continue to put their faith and energy into the Democratic Party, they are not simply willfully naive but complicit in their own enslavement.”
(– Chris Hedges, “Class: the Little Word the Elites Want you to Forget”)
“Did a single banker go to prison after the 2008 crash?
After legions of bankers committed fraud and stoked an entire industry (real estate) to lie, cheat and steal? Of course they didn’t. We paid to bail them out and here we are again.” (-Will Carless)
HEY BROTHERS & SISTERS & FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION, LET’S HEAR IT FOR THOSE GLAMOROUS DARLINGS, HOLLYWOOD’S SHITELAND PONIES!
These cool cats are among my favorite underground bands since the Moonchasers and Dr. Boogie!
I feel really bad for that tree sitter kid the cops killed for protesting their urban warfare training center being funded by twenty big corporations in the Atlanta forrest. Shitlb media manufactured consent for superfunding the alphabet gangs and racist police with all their non stop hammer hoopla over the Maga people doubting the election results when both Bernie Sanders and Trump had big overflowing crowds of supporters and Biden barely even campaigned. So yeah, when the tv says the rightwing traumatized AOC, most suggestible Murkkkaans just go along with the idea that protestors should be hauled off to prison for daring question the word of known liars, or for assembling at the capital. The Real Left has been telling the centrist shitlibs since Obama that censorship is a bad idea, but they are too safespace triggered and hypnotized by the topdown fauxwoke gender narrative to notice when all the leftist media is being hidden online or disappeared from tech platforms because it challenges the weapon makers and big pharma mandate and pro war narratives. I know Democrats who are mad at Matt Taibbi from “Rolling Stone” for uncovering how the government and big tech colluded to hide the Hunter Biden corruption in the Ukraine story before the election. Now this new guy the deep state wants to install as an alternative to Trump, if not Lyn Cheney, Desatis is a known Gitmo torturer. All the people in Atlanta protesting the tree sitter forest defender being shot 13 times by cops while sitting crosslegged with his hands up according the the autopsy are being held without bail for demonstrating, and being charged with terrorism. We told you this was gonna keep happening during the Water Protectors being attacked with violence by mercenaries during Standing Rock when your fave corporation-prez said he was gonna “let it play out”, rather than intervene or protect original peoples over big oil company profits. It is a sad state of affairs when government thugs can assassinate wildlife nature preservers, AND charge their defenders with “terrorism” charges, and so many people who even think of themselves as progressive will standby and tollerate that shit, because of how it gets copaganda framed or hidden by big 5 corporate media monopolies. If you’re like me, you wake up terrorized and horrified by all the lies and hypocrisy and warpiggery and corporate funded Judge Dredd/Rambo military policing in this country. Everybody looks the other way when Gropey Joe and imperial Blinken send more billions to Ukraine for endless war and Nato expansionism everyday, while totally ignoring all the sick people poisoned by the Blackrock chemical burn in Palestine, Ohio-they even deploy those horribly partisan, no heart Karens of “The View” to say they have no pity for the sick people with dying animals because that county mostly voted for Trump. Everything on tv is still jsut single issue forever focused on Trump. What kindof person says shit like that? No sympathy? No pity for the sick and dying if they belong to a different political party sports team? It’s exactly the same as those righwing whackadoo hate preachers who say shit like fires and floods are caused because somebody is gay somewhere, and that’s the vengeful wrath of their rightwing assault weapons gawd. Madness all around us. In her series, “Pretend It’s A City”, Fran Lebowitz talks about existing in a near perpetual state of rage about the plastic plants and lawnchairs in the Disneyfied Times Square and how when the government declared the air safe after 9/11, she knew it wasn’t safe and it wasn’t dust and her documentarian Martin Scorsese mentioned all the people who got cancer after officials marked the air safe to breathe in NYC. She also recalls confronting billionaire Bloomberg about all of his nanny state gentrification policies and asked him what you call artists drinking and smoking and hanging out, and when he had no idea, she said, it is the history of art. I find it encouraging that Fran and Martin can see these problems with such clarity in spite of their fame. Even Spike Lee and Oliver Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Jill Stein get big-tech and state censored in the Divided States Of Amnesia. Most people can’t even see the mushroom clouds past the preposterous footage of “Chinese Balloons”, Oscar propaganda, and constant din of culture wars and “Russiagate” new cold war McCarthyist hysteria.
“It’s quite an awakening when you have time to really look at the world and see that this GOP vs Dem game is a scam and stations like MSNBC and Fox are all propaganda and State TV, and all our wars are based on lies. I did everything the Establishment wanted
I joined the military, thought this was a democracy, voted Dem like a good Black person, thought my vote mattered, thought voting Obama would change things, even briefly thought Russiagate was real and thought GOP voters were all enemies. Over 2 years into Biden’s Presidency, Dems have still been able to find a way to blame everything going wrong on Trump. According to the West, what is happening to Ukraine is called “Winning”. (-Black In The Empire)
Dems screamed about corruption Dems got control for 2 years, corporate tax rate still 21% Biden’s budget now that they lost the House only raises it to 28% knowing it won’t pass I don’t think they were that upset Trump’s tax cut.” (-Black In The Empire)
“Progressives” also refused to support Workers Strike Back, a labor group ran by socialists. It’s seems to me like the boutique left just wants to organize with liberals. Ro Khanna wants to bail out the Silicon Valley Bank because he’s on the payroll.
With “progressives” like these who needs neoliberals?” (-Revolutionary Blackout Network)
“Hey, Democrats Stop using our healthcare money to bail out banks.” (-Gritty Is The Way)
“I keep trying to tell everybody
The way to Peace is taking billions from American taxpayers and giving it to companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. Germany is helping the US wage their war against Germany. All the things the Dems want to blame on Trump, they had 2 years of control of the Gov’t to overturn and didn’t.” (-Black In The Empire)
“US Foreign Policy is based solely around the US not letting any country come close to challenging their hegemony and their idea of diplomacy is to issue threats or sanction, coup or invade if you don’t do what they say. You can blame Trump for these bank crashes, but will you blame Biden for his role in the mass incarceration of Black people, a million people being killed in Iraq, the genocide in Yemen, the student debt crisis, the 2008 crash and more.” (-Black In The Empire) Why are people wondering why countries are turning to China?
“Progressives” are very used to acting as gatekeepers to who Leftists can work with. They get very upset when their determinations aren’t obeyed. There’s ego involved. Ultimately, the actual purpose of a “progressive” is to co-opt Leftists back under control of the Dem Party.” (-Jon Cutt) “
Liberalism is just right-wing capitalism with a smile. Always has been. “Progressives” are just liberals with a toe dipped into socialist waters. But they never venture in. They always just run back to their bourgeois pool chairs, sipping cocktails made from the people’s blood.” (-Nathan Shirley)
“I wish they held the dem party to the same standard they have for an antiwar rally.
Can’t go to an antiwar rally because they don’t like 1 persons views on a social issue but no problem voting for someone who is going to continue starving & bombing poor people around the world.” (-General Strike on Twitter about the asskiss shitlibs)
“What about the importance of giving everyone Healthcare in this country? Our government has no problem rescuing banks…but they won’t rescue the people.” (-Sabby Sabs)
“”In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” (-Kwame Ture)
“Liberals hate leftists because they are a constant reminder that liberals are not the thing they appear to be.” (-Caitlin Johnstone who has way more patience for fauxwoke empty virtue signaling than I do.)
The people that have you cheering on trying to get us into nuclear war with China and Russia will survive in their bunkers.
Where are you gonna go? Do people realize how ridiculous they sound when they argue that their Party is the honest one and the news networks they watch are the ones telling the truth?
Wake up both Parties are corrupt and all that corporate owned news you’re all watching is propaganda. We need to come together as a society and put an end to Nuland’s war. How many people do you think are struggling like hell still believing Biden telling them how great the economy is, simply because he’s a Democrat?” (-Black In The Empire)
It aint the left versus the right anymore friends cause both parties represent the billionaires. The billionaires don’t care how you self identify really, they are waging a worldwide war on the poor. STAY WILD STAY FREE!
“Darken the city night is a wire steam in the subway earth is afire do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do…” (- Simon LeBon)
“Christ. We can’t been get people to come together on ending the fucking wars. Buncha punk ass clowns making it about podcasters and personal feelings. Out here just doing the work of empire for them. We are fucked. I’m embarrassed for y’all.” (-Sarcasm Stardust)
” “Putting missiles 5 minutes from Moscow – that’s provocation. Putin is in the same position as JFK was 60 years ago. He sees an existential threat. He’s not going to back off”.” (-Ray McGovern)
“Learning how the Communist government of Cuba increased literacy from 47% to 96% in just 8 months really gives you a sense of just how much capitalism is holding back human creativity, development and well-being.” (-Alan MacLeod)
“Any society that allows their fellow citizens to sleep on sidewalks and under bridges in the middle of winter while they spend billions on the largest military budget in history is a broken society.” (-Prof Zenkus)
“These people risking a nuclear war have a plan to survive it, do you? Our Gov’t will spend the next couple of years working even harder to prepare us to be ok with the insane idea of waging war against China.” (-Black In The Empire)
“If the Biden regime was truly “determined to provide any and all assistance” to Syrians they would:
1) Stop militarily occupying 1/3 of the country 2) Stop stealing 66,000 barrels of oil from them per day 3) Stop actively sabotaging rescue efforts by lifting the sanctions” (-Wyatt Reed)
“A sizeable percentage of the people who shriek at me for criticizing US foreign policy are Bernie Sanders progressives and black flag “anarchist” accounts. Very few of the people who think of themselves as fighting the power and opposing tyranny actually do. Still blows my mind how the empire can rob Americans blind, keep them poor, deprive them of all normal social safety nets, oppress them, exploit them, throw them into the largest prison system on earth, work them into the ground, and then convince them to be angry at China.”
There was a time in the 80’s when Terence Trent D’Arby seemed as arrogant as Oasis and maybe as talented as Prince. He was selling records as fast as Inxs or Michael Jackson or Madonna or Fine Young Cannibals, he was all over MTV and top 40 radio with his good looks, cool style, Sam Cooke like voice, but the record companies and muzak industry were so nefarious and crooked and corrupt and sinister, he changed his name and fled from stardom and told big slick magazines he was afraid of being offed by star whackers, of being x’ed out by the suits in the mansions. How fuckedup is that? Can you imagine what kindof horrors he must have witnessed to wanna quit being a rockstar and split for anonymity and obscurity? Before he died, Jim Morrison, who was being framed and pursued and threatened by the FBI and Cointelpro for bogus charges, he also said if he had the chance to do it all again, he’d do the lone artist in his little garden trip. He moved to France which is something I find myself dreaming of everytime I glimpse all those people in the streets fighting tyrants. I liked that tv show song JD Fortune did with INXS, it was good, but there’s obviously no replacing Michael Hutchence, but Sananda came closest. Sananda Maittreya is still out there creating beauty and making high quality music, even if he did not want to participate in the venal and grotesque monopoly media and their vile propaganda agendas. I really dig him! Always did. If you knew my old bandmate and songwriting collaborator, legendary midwestern new wave DJ, Bobby Cloyd (RIP) and have a copy of his version of “She Kissed Me”, please get me a copy. We were both really influenced by him when we were first learning how to sing and write songs as teenagers. Thank You.
““We are kind of in an arms race … We’re trying to educate the public and build our army to restore democracy.And they’re racing, at the same time, to put this infrastructure in place that will give them total control to destroy dissent and to disable any kind of insurgency or subversion and any difference with the official government dead narrative and the orthodoxies.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
FLAMIN’ GROOVIES
What is it about human nature that drives us to wanna communicate and seek out our bretheren? Nothing communicates as effectively as music, if you ask me. Flamin Groovies were one of the bands I discovered while working at a smalltown used record store in the eighties back when I was also first discovering Bowie, T Rex, the Stooges, Love, MC5, and the Doors. They were one of the groups I never stopped enjoying, that I took with me to every different town and every new relationship, throughout all those otherwise diminishing decades, since. Still an invaluable source of rocknroll inspiration, even in these dark days of Grammy Goat Worship, sucky muzak, needless wars, Wall Street swells one percent gouger inflation, billionaire dick rockets, killer kkkops and the wingnuts and shitlibs who love to superfund and hypermilitarize them, tv watchers who are stupid gullible cheerleaders of their own oppression, vacant storefronts on Main Street, inhumane impossibly jackedup rents, suffering people self medicating, evil oligarchs poisoning the poor, media glorification of spies and mercnaries, torturers, and alphabet gangs. If you play “SHAKE SOME ACTION” loud enough and close your eyes, you can travel back to freer, groovier, more beautiful and innocent times. Just try it! I’m happy some of those cats are still alive, and still at it, still treading the boards and makin’ a glorious racket!
IF McDONNA CAN BE CONSIDERED ROCKNROLL AND GET INDUCTED TO THEIR CREEPY HALL BY MOTHERFUCKIN’ IGGY, I’M ALWAYS A REAL FOOL FOR THIS OTHER OLD EIGHTIES MTV NEW WAVE ERA ICON! I LOVE AND MISS GEORGE MICHAEL. HE’S MY SINATRA!
I’m one of those people who’ve come to think the pig media lies to us about everything and all the people who fought against the evil industry or bucked the system-Tom Petty, Prince, Michael, George Michael, Strummer, Whitney, Hutchence, they all died young and under dubious circumstances. I miss George Michael alot, his songs always spoke to my heart. I mean, I remember HATING “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” as a kid, and got so sick of that fookin saxophone in the overplayed “Careless Whisper” it makes me cringe, but by the time I discovered “Kissing A Fool”, man, that song really captured how I felt about a young love I pined endlessly for in my teens and twenties. Something about that song still touches me. I was never really into Elton John or Freddy Mercury, but I still love George Michael shamelessly. His biographers say he was a shy chubby kid and never overcame that outcast self image which is why he needed the effortlessly cool winning Ridgely by his side in the early years, ruling class Andrew Ridgely was the one with all the natural race car driving, posh, pinup, Colgate commercial self confidence, he was really carrying George for awhile, even if one of them was obviously more talented, the other one was a true bon vivant. It’s his later day compositions when he was wrestling with his mourning and grief and sexual identity and spirituality and defending his artistry and being consequenced by the media and the system that his songs really took on galaxies of pathos and sincerity and deep emotional resonance. I can even remember being jealous of him in my early teens cause my first crush liked the way he looked, but you know, I don’t look anything like she would want her man to. That’s roughest stuff when you are young. George Michael was always at his best when he wrote and sang from his heart. Why don’t people do that anymore? Brandie Carlysle was the last one I remember being allowed into mainstream media who was singing with real heart n soul. The rest all seem like vapid sexdolls, controlled rappers with short life expectancies, and plastic puppets of death. (RIP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGPQHPMcHbs
…Not that many egomaniac rich people can laugh at themselves. I think it is extraordinary that he battled Sony so heroically, even if they got him in the end. As Clint Eastwood said in “The Unforgiven”, “we all got it comin’, kid”. Might as well standup for what you believe in.
I been listening to Big Audio Dynamite and thinking about Dave Chappelle and Julian Assange, and everybody the system wants to silence for being offscript or the least bit disobedient. I had an uncool soldout shitlib who defends murderous kkkop gestapo murdering people, cause all they care about is their hometeam Blue No Matter Who gender war divide n conquer obey the Man in the tower shitshow political party, tell me I come off preachy and self righteous, when advocating for peace and opposing online censorship. A virtue signaling Hillarybot/AOC Boyfriend/Thank Obama told me I’m too preachy. Are you kidding me, man? I’d rather be accused of being too preachy for opposing empire and tyranny than ever become one of the cluless slogan repeating lemmings who wanna brag about all the tv they watch and echo. I can get along with all kinds people and find common cause with people from all walks of life who believe in freedom. One of my local allies is a troubled ex vet who thinks “Antifa is the most dangerous organization” In Amurkkka, but they are also opposed to lies for empire and spook surveillance, so already, I got more in common with summa their crowd than I do the shitlibs who just wanna waste time and energy protecting their special privileges by praising the superstar celebrities Nothing Will Change union buster/strike breaking scabs of the sellout Squad. The deepsate infiltrate every populist movement, that aint nothing new. Been goin’ on since the sixties, at least. Boots Riley and Jimmy Dore are the real left, not anybody from the Squad or fuckedup Private Plane/Endless coups warpig Pelosi. What happened to the Delta House I used to know? Ya know? Where are all the motherfuckin rocknroll people at? I aint talkin bout the rich kids with the hats asking their sugar daddies for for more cocaine money. I mean the rebels, the black sheep, the dropouts, the righteous risk takers and truth tellers and whistle blowers and people who believe in a free press, free speech, equal rights for all and my body/my rules, not just the super rich people with their Crayola Diversity Muppets used as feelgood props for boomers and yuppies, by seating some varying hued and gendered fascist enablers in the front row. I mean where are all the MC5 wildcats at? When are you gonna fight back to strike back? It’s crazy so many people I used to know have just plugged into MSNBC propganda rhetoric and gave up the ghost and joined the system and just obediently wait for more instructions from the tv millionaire propaganda whores. I shouldn’t have to be there in anybody’s zipcode for them to rememeber what we sued to be and who they say they are. It’s like invasion of the bodysnatchers or “They Live!” overe here in the states. Nobody stands for anything unless it’s some astroturf cable programmed bullshit slogan du juor. I keep broadcasting my little smoke signals from the bonfire by the railroad track but you know these stars and striped tv morons all watch fuckin’ “Dancing With The Fascists” and tune antiwar people like myself and Dr. Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka out, and never comeback on the CB radio, cause it might offend their bruncher pals. Ya know? Whatever happens to me, or my access to any platforms, just know there is a frequency you can tune back into that’s still seeking good times, righteousness, community aid, and mutual solidarity. You were supposed to be part of that movement, hey, remember? I’m still yellin’ in the face of the void out here in the coldass windy desert, still representin’, still calling upon all the real rocknroll people to do something from wherever you are, besides posting memes on social media, to raise awareness about the bullshit imperialist lies for war, to lend a hand to the houseless and the poor and to demand freedom for Julian Assange, Alex Saab, all whistle blowers and righteous political prisoners. I’m fucking SO IMPRESSED the French people get out on the streets and are ACTIVELY fighting back against the Future fascists leadership Klaus Schwab puppet who wants to fuck them over some more for his WEF billionaire bosses. The French stand for freedom, fight back, aint afraid to raise a ruckous. Murkkkans are all fuckedup in their greedy got-mine status seeking popularity hypnospell, too terrified to ever step outta line or say something true from their frozen hearts cause they don’t wanna be called all the fauxwoke names or get deplatfomed or cancelled by offending their higher ups. It’s pathetic and way beyond sad, what cowards the upwardly mobile joiners and belongsr and fame seekers have become since Obama convinced them that Bush/Cheney policies were somehow classy or woke. I have never seen a rockshow in my country on behalf of JULIAN ASSANGE, or against the ongoing Dick Cheney/Joe Biden forever wars of empire, except by ROGER WATERS. Pamela Anderson the ex Tommy Lee/Baywatch pinup has more rebel yell fightin’ the good fight instinct in her heart than every fucking post Nirvana fake assemblyline wannabe Green Day punque band put together! Thank You for your service, brave warrior! The rest of ’em? I’m losing faith, if you don’t care to learn the Nuspeak Commercial lingo it’s almost not even worth trying to comunicate with the Branch Covidian Pinkhat Blue Maga Cult, they will probably only throw you under the bus for refusing to learn the latest fad TikTok new age faux-woke asskiss lexicon, they are all Kalltha Kkkops Karens, who think they have the right to impose their preferred red carpet spokesmodel celebrities, and adverstisement based preferences, on you, and call that freedom. If you do still have a gang of likeminded soulbrothers and sisters who want to fight for truth and soul and freedom and peace, who are willing to jeopardize their Thursday Night DJ gig at the Local Asskisser Gentrification Popularity fake divebar, to resist tyranny and the Gates Reset/Forever War/Eat Zee Bugs & Own Nothing/Microchip Permenent Clampdown Dystopia, get organized, make fliers, create fanzines, write songs, some of you already have actual recording apparatus-that is a big privilege you should not ever take for granted, use it for good purpose, organize, play shows, demonstrate, speak out. Now is the time. If the Davos billionaires know that pop culture can be weaponized for evil, you should recognize it can be used for good, as well! ANNOUNCING: On February 19 we are going to Washington DC to Rage Against the War Machine! We will rally at the Lincoln Memorial with vets, speakers, rock bands, and comedians then march to the White House to demand an end to the billions going to Ukraine!
“Dems in California just passed law CRIMINALIZING MEDICINE. Dr’s treating Covid with anything that doesn’t significantly boost profits for Big Pharma are punished. Stop with the B.S. left/right theater Dems crushed railroad union & U still pretending. People still fall for this?” (-Jimmy Dore)
“Biden’s Build Back Better was for Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Weapons. How many times will our Gov’t have to be caught lying to us before Americans figure out that our Gov’t always lies to us? The United States has been knowingly arming and training Nazis in Ukraine for years and Americans don’t care.I don’t want to keep spending billions of dollars to get more Ukrainians killed. When other countries give the US their ‘Red Line’ our Gov’t gives them our ass to kiss, but when the US says they draw a red line it’s supposed to be obeyed by the world as gospel. Do Americans ever wonder what gives our country the right to threaten other Gov’ts for not doing what we tell them? They brainwashed us since our early childhoods The United States is not a force for good in the world Most of the world is trying to protect themselves from us. Americans have spent billions to get over 100,000 Ukrainians killed and 20% of their country taken. We could have spent nothing, and none of this would have happened if Ukraine didn’t listen to NATO and just honored the Minsk Agreement they signed. There is a balloon stuck in the tree outside my house.” (-Black In The Empire)
Cold Coffee, Windy Days and a “Native” Brand Cigarette
Been real windy where I live and the infrastructure’s crumbling and the city only pays for half measures, never really repair the fuckedup water pipes that are always busting and flooding the retail streets. Kinda like how big-pharma would rather “treat” diseases than cure them, same kinda thing. They hire through nepotism or military service but the fix it crews don’t even have the budget to fix anything. I went for a walk in the elements yesterday, tumbleweeds, styrofoam, and plastic Wal-Mart bags were flying in the air, everything clangin’ and dust bowl dirt devils get in your eyes. Rough week here in the poor town where I live, most everybody is being affected by the pressures of trying to make rent and fill the cupboards and make ends meet now that Biden has cut food stamps again smack dab in the thick of all his “nothing will change” superinflation, there are constant Rachel Maddow rah rah drumbeats for always more war, the faux-woke imperialism and bullshit identity politics, the health problems and constant threat of eviction, there’s dread and worry in the air here, you can see it all over the people with the sad sunken faces filled with that haunted traumatized crazy stressed out look on everybody’s horrified faces. Of course, some some rat racing, fattened up richer people still drive by in the big gas guzzling oversized vehicles, protected from the wind and packs of unleashed dogs and nurtty thin drug zombies walking behind the shops in the back alleyways. There are still some oblivious gotmine shit hoarders safely cloistered behind big fences on booj ranches and desert compounds but the Man is comin’ for them, too. They just don’t know it yet, they think they are safespace protected classes and if they just repeat what they are told on their tv’s enough times, they’ll get some kinda promotion from the higherups. Had a dream I was at the Grammies just bored to tears by all that propaganda they do on those award shows now, looking at McDonna and Harry Styles and Lizzo and Jay Z hot garbage and thinking this aint rocknroll, this is some weird fucked up tire fire cult ritual. McDonna is a plastic surgery disaster and she never appears in public without committing some real asshole vulgar display of blasphemy where she’s mocking Jesus Christ, a bit like oligarch scumbag Elon Musk, ya know, always the sme old shit-Blasphemy 101, a website called Vigilant Citizen monitors all that fake pop cult garbage in the pig media-it’s gotten pretty ridiculous, redundant and unattractive. Now I know firsthand why people would object to the fake abuser warpig whiteman version of Christianity pushed by all the capitalists and the Pentagon, but the McDonna debbil bullshit is old and tired and grotesque. She just sucks nowadays, so boring, so trite, ugly, predictable, nopt cool at all;, anymore. We get it, you worship money, the NWO, the big golden goat statue in the mansion, yeah yeah, weaponize disco, weaponize gay rights, but the Honky Death Machine still sucks, even with an evil priestess in an Egyptian headdress, even with a pinkwash disco ball and some gay dancers. It’s sad about McDonna, really, she started off kinda cool, cute, entertaining. “Lucky Star” and “Into The Groove” were a big part of our MTV eighties good times. Now I hear all the fake muzak, see all the fake fashion and hijacked civil rights movements and turn it off. Even my design shows became so controlled and predictable, like everybody knew who was preassigned to win on “Making The Cut”. The illuminati Met Gala dude who did all the usual masks and ugly monarch programmed industry slave shit. Duh, like we didn’t all see that coming. In the dream, I looked behind me where Duran Duran had been seated and the whole row was empty as if they had thought the same thing and split the scene with their model wives. Now I suspect in real life, those eighties jetset millionaires got no issue with the evil weaponzied muzak industry, but in the dream, they were with me and the Clash and the Angels. They cut outta the scene and went groovin’. I suspect Russell Brand is in bed with summa the same Rockefeller pyramid spooky debbil cult people as McDonna, Styles, Beyonce and his ex wife Katy Perry, his girlfriend’s a Rockefeller, he’s got a bigass Masonic tattoo, but for now, they have him doing some limited hangout operations where he is saying all the empire’s quiet stuff out loud. Could he have been a force for good? Easily, but so could anyone. I don’t think he’s really with us, he’s too culty and rich to be anything but controlled opposition, but I link to him because much of what he says is true. Most of the fame hags would rather hear it from him then me. I still worry he’s a phony on the take. You know, another Maddow/AOC/Obama.
“People really don’t feel ridiculous defending either one of these corporate owned Parties do they? The leadership of the Dems and GOP are friends whose job is to make us hate each other.Apparently, the US Gov’t only hates Terrorists and Nazis when they can’t use them to destabilize a Gov’t they want to overthrow.” (-Black In The Empire)
“Assange is still in prison for revealing US war crimes. NATO and US allies cannot be war criminals no matter who they invade, what they do or how many they kill. I believe that is a part of the ‘Rules Based Order’. I’ll keep showing you what our Gov’t is really doing with our money and how they lie to us The US is funding Nazism now and has been for year US lifts ban on funding ‘neo-Nazi’ Ukrainian militia. All the Americans that think the US is good, I’ll keep reminding you that less than a year ago our country gave a grand funeral celebrating the life of a woman that said “Killing 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it”.When the US ‘helped’ Libya they were the richest country in Africa and when the US finished with Libya a bunch of their gold and weapons disappeared, and their President was murdered They would up in so much chaos, open slave trading started. What makes it worse is when you watch the interview of how excited Gaddafi was to have a Black man become President of the US. Hillary Clinton thought it was funny.Well who cares, we’re America, we can do whatever we want, it’s only the other people who are bad.” (-Black In The Empire)
“Remember when they put Powell and Mueller, 2 people they were sure we’d trust in front of us to testify that Iraq had WMD’s Remember how they lied their asses off under oath to all of us like it was nothing. Remember how Bush joked about killing a million when there were no WMDs. Do people really look at Biden, Blinken, these Generals they put in front of us and that Sec of Defense from Raytheon Lloyd Austin and think “Yeah we’re definitely getting some truth outta them”? Who are we to talk about corruption in another military? For the 2nd time our Pentagon can’t account for trillions of dollars, we spend damn near a trillion on our military every year and now that we need to make 30 tanks they say it could take damn near a year. Are we corrupt? Our Gov’t spends more money on our military than our people when we have no real threat to us When we have so many of our citizens suffering, imagine the amount of propaganda it took to get us to allow this to continue to happen.” (-Black In The Empire)
IF YOU WERE A FAN OF THE PUPLE HAIRED ZEROES OF LOVE CHEAP TRICK POWER POP, GO CHECKOUT OUR FRIEND JOE NORMAL FROM SLOW MOTORCADE, HE IS MAKING SOME REALLY GORGEOUS MODERN POP MUSIC!
“After all the damage our Gov’t has done around the world they have us losing our minds over make believe sound waves from Cuba, Hillary with horns memes from a Russian troll farm and a Chinese balloon. The US cares so much about Freedom, Human Rights and Democracy that Biden just went begging Saudi Arabia for oil, who we give weapons to commit a genocide and our Gov’t gives billions to an Apartheid State In other words, our Gov’t is full of shit. Don’t get me wrong there are leaders of countries outside the West that fully support the US The problem is that the US is the one that put them in power. The US couldn’t care less about Human Rights, Democracy or Sovereignty What rulers of this country care about is having control of other nations and if they don’t, those leaders become labeled dictators who must go Whether by coup, sanction, assassination or organized chaos. They are lying to you Most of the world may wish this war never started but they do not support the West. The West thinks it is all that matters in the world and can do whatever it wants The US said that Africa doesn’t support us because they don’t know better. They know.” (-Black In The Empire)
You’re probably familiar with JOE NORMAL if you ‘re a regular on here or if you like The ZEROS. After releasing tons of singles, Joe finally took the time to gather 11 songs and release a full album opening with a great cover of The FOUR TOPS‘ classic “I’ll Be There” before delivering some catchy garage power pop with “Into The City Tonight”. A song like “Anytowns” has a BOB DYLAN on speed flavour while “This Is Your Life (And Your Desitiny’s Calling)” and “Living With Me” bring The ROLLING STONES to mind. You’ll also get a bit of americana with “Even Now (The Future’s Looking Brighter Every Day” and some guitar riffs sounding like real 70s classic rock (“Take Me With U”, “Going Mobile”). Joe is a great storyteller and working class themes can be found in “Stuck In A Job” and in the catchy “Nuthin’ (I’ve Got Nohing)” but he sometimes get more personal (“Don’t Hurt Me”). Whether you like TOM PETTY, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN or glammy powerpop, there’s something for you on this album! /Laurent C.
“LIVING IN THE BOROUGH” is a mostly autobiographical slice of teenage Americana growing up tough in Elizabeth, New Jersey of the late 70’s and early 80’s just before discovering my calling as an artist.
We’ve all had our share of childhood trauma, and some of us have worked hard to overcome its hold over our adult lives. Though “Living In The Borough” is my own deeply personal story, perhaps you may relate to one or more of the scenes I have depicted here.
Ultimately, it was music that delivered me from the destructive path I was on, and gave my life meaning and purpose. For that I am grateful.” Joe Normal
Joe Normal (The Zeros) has just released his new video “Summer Jobs”:
“I was raised on the comedy of Benny Hill, The Little Rascals, and The Uncle Floyd Show, so I wanted to make a video for “Summer Jobs” that brought a bit of that kind of humor to my song’s blue-collar ‘stick it to the man’ storyline. Please join me for a melody and a laugh.”
Veglam 