LA Weekly, “Gnarly Charly Is Just Your Average Anarcho-Punk Chicano Bike Activist”
“On the council, I learned a lot about the system,” he says. “Of course I wanted to be more radical. I follow anarchy — it was ‘infiltrate and hide in plain sight.’ So I’ve been doing the Bartertown festivals — the first was down in Joshua Tree — and afterward I thought I’d like to […]
Fresh Air (NPR), “For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of Armor”
GRACE: For sure, 100 percent. And that was, you know, one of the very appealing things to me about the punk rock world when I was, like, 15, 16, especially stumbling onto, like, anarchist punk rock and activist punk rock. And, you know, a scene that was really strongly feminist and anti-racist and anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, […]
Fader, “How To Successfully Fight For Change, According To 6 People Who Actually Know”
Penny Rimbaud, 73 Co-founder of seminal anarcho-punk band Crass, co-founder of Stonehenge Free Festival, performance artist, writer. Continue Reading
Folio Weekly (FL), “A Progressive COUNTERREVOLUTION in Northeast Florida?”
The most recent Political Mass at Shantytown Pub featured music by some of Jacksonville’s underground musicians, including punk powerhouse Gross Evolution, who screamed onstage, “Together we’re everything; apart we’re nothing.” Devout anarchists, Gross Evolution makes their opinion known through their lyrics and on-stage dissent. Between songs, lead singer/guitar master Nerwin Segovia intoned, “We hate the […]
Spin, “In 2016, Emo Entered Another Green World”
But beyond challenging fans sonically and visually (to put it mildly), the Hotelier put themselves on the line politically, working out their evolving anarcho-punk credo in real time: “I don’t know” was the album’s most frequently used phrase. It’s a lot harder to express what you stand for rather than what you stand against, and […]
Chicago Reader, “Laura Jane Grace writes for her rights”
“Chunks of Grace’s story are missing: one part of the book’s title that’s not properly reflected in the narrative is her history with anarchism. Against Me!’s catalog from the early years is chockablock full of lyrics extolling leftist extremism. Take the chorus for 2002’s “Baby, I’m an Anarchist!,” which references the 1999 Seattle protests during […]
Vice, “A Former Crass Member Looks Back on 50 Years of Counterculture”
The exhibition includes the now-iconic artworks Vaucher created for Essex’s finest commune-dwelling anarcho-pacifist punk band Crass, of which she was a member for the band’s entire time together (1977 to 1984). Crass, famously, had a thing or two to say about authoritarianism and right-wing, warmongering, and isolationist heads of state, and with Vaucher at the […]
AJ+, ” Where Mexico City’s Punks Are Welcome,” May 29, 2015
Where Mexico City’s Punks Are Welcome by Anadlusia Knoll, AJ+, May 29, 2015 The Tianguis Cultural del Chopo is the punk flea market in Mexico City. Cheko explains to AJ+ why it’s so important that he spends 3 hours getting there each week. From video journalist Andalusia Knoll in Mexico. READ MORE