Punk Rock Postmortem

And for the non-phone using crowd, here's a link  Right, gang? Another week, another playlist! Now, I don't have last week's playlist on here, but I really can't be fucked keeping it, so I'll just start it fresh here! This week is a bit of an eclectic selection, our selection is: Streetlight Manifesto (Still going strong from last week, honestly I just find the percussion addictive) Social Distortion The Queers Teenage Bottlerocket Dead Boys The Ergs!  Dag Nasty (A newcomer to my playlists, these guys have a killer sound! Well worth adding to the hall of fame we dedicate to the best 80s and early 90s punk).  Flux of Pink Indians The Partisans  Peter and The Test Tube Babies  As always, I update these playlists every week, giving some recommendations and opinions on the music I listen to. Punk rock can be a hard genre to find recommendations from when you don't know any more than the most popular bands, so stuff like this is always helpful.  [Can't believe t...

   Much like the term “Democratic Socialist”, I believe that “the punk community” is a complete contradiction of terms. How the fuck is punk rock about rebelling against a system and being yourself when you actively congregate and create an echo chamber where only accepted opinions are allowed is beyond me. It’s a bit like how people who are supposedly all about freedom of speech and empowerment always seem to support government officials who seek almost exclusively to restrict the rights of their people, and enforce Draconian and totalitarian law to create a neo-serf class of people ( cough The SNP cough .) It’s all quite confusing to someone like me. I don’t get it, we all wear the same fucking brands, we all circle-jerk the same group of bands who align with a certain kind of politics, from a different time period which is completely different to our own, and these people think they’re part of some rebellion when the mainstream media and fucking brands are agreeing with th...

So, it’s a month until Christmas, and only 6 days after that we end off our 2020, what a fucking trip. Honestly, if I had to pick a year where the silly switch was on from the word go, it’d be this year. Mind you, do you think we should even count this as a year? Nobody has been able to do fucking anything, aside from of course Amazon or the governments of the world, those two have been having the best year of their lives! Personally, I don’t think I’d count 2020 as a year that I did anything, if it weren’t for meeting my girlfriend and starting my course, fuck, I’d call this 2019 the 2nd. But, hyperbole aside, what happens next? The reason I ask that is because I genuinely don’t think anyone is thinking ahead of this moment right now in our history, I’m yet to see someone raise the question of ideas like bodily autonomy, human rights and the economic cost of government enforced shutdowns, things that will plague the world for far longer than any virus.  What’s going to happen? If...