Everyone is doing lists of best albums/bands of the decade, so it made me ponder the decade, which for me spanned part of high school, college, and graduate school.

Without a doubt, my favorite album of the decade is Reinventing Axl Rose by Against Me! Say what you want about the choices the band made shortly after that album, but this album ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, insurance companies! You got a nice fat healthcare bill from the Senate for the holidays that'll force 30 million people to buy insurance from you or else risk getting fined and possibly jailed ( Read more... )

Very good special comment here by Keith. He basically agrees with Howard Dean here that this new healthcare bill is unacceptable and just a handout to insurance companies that will only burden ordinary people while filling the pockets of the insurance bigwigs. He takes on everyone from Obama for not doing enough to fight for reform and sitting on ( Read more... )

Just like I do every year during Christmas time, I'll be traveling to Asbury Park, NJ for the Bouncing Souls holiday shows! I'll be going to the Dec. 30 date that has Chuck Ragan on the bill. Pretty stoked about this. The holiday shows are ALWAYS a blast and have great lineups. This will be the 7th or 8th time I've seen the Souls, too ( Read more... )

This is one of the most interesting interviews I have read in a while. It explores the idea that Americans simply no longer have the will to protest anything and as a result, allow politicians and corporations to get away with anything. I do agree with parts of this article. But I think it ignores the fact that a lot of young people became engaged ( Read more... )

This is pretty great. Tim Barry, Chuck Ragan, Ben Nicols, all joining Tom Gabel of Against Me! to do his version of "Wagon Wheel ( Read more... )

Here is a great article by Chris Hedges on the hollowed out "progressive" movement in America. This is a great piece and slams "progressives" for not leaving the Democratic Party a long time ago and thinking that Obama would be anything less than much of the same, beholden to the corporate interests. Leave a comment

Brian Fallon covering Springsteen's Atlantic City. Good stuff! It also begins with Fallon's normal odd stage banter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoZXrbQqu0&feature=related

And this is even more powerful. Fallon covering "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen.

What the FUCK is Obama thinking? Send 30-35,000 more troops to Afghanistan? Why the hell would you do that? The SOVIET FUCKING EMPIRE AND BRITISH EMPIRE failed in Afghanistan. The county is a GRAVEYARD for empires and world powers. War there is simply not winable for superpowers. Look at history! Why are we bothering sending more troops there to ( Read more... )

A lot of great albums by several of my favorite bands came out this year. Chuck Ragan released Gold Country and expanded on the folk/country sounds of his solo career. Strike Anywhere released Iron Front, another politically-charged album by the Richmond foursome. American Steel released Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts, an album that is a little ( Read more... )