SEE YOU IN HELL

SEE YOU IN HELL (Brno, Czech RepUBLIC) + LOTUS FUCKER (DC/Baltimore) - West Coast tour 2013

The Punk Singer

I Had a chance to see a showing of "The Punk Singer" last night at the kickoff to this year's Oakland Underground Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater, and I have to say that it was really well done. So much better than I was expecting after watching the Kickstarter video several months ago. It's amazing how far we've come that budget limitations in 2013 doesn't automatically mean a low budget looking film the way many of us remember low budget films (B-movies) back in the day.

 "The Punk Singer" is Sini Anderson's documentary about Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Let Tigre, The Julie Ruin), which is already enough information for most of the folks who follow this blog, but it also delves into subjects like her recent battle with late term lyme disease, feminism, the riot grrrl movement, her marriage to the King AD Rock (Beastie Boys), getting punched in the face by Courtney Love (who hasn't?), and of course the chronology of events leading up to the formation of Bikini Kill. Nuff said.

S.T.F.U.

This was going to be a Flashback Friday post, but we'll start off a new week with this photo of Tony S.T.F.U., from the band S.T.F.U., hanging outside of a Dischord tribute show we booked at Burnt Ramen Studios in Richmond, California in 2003.  I've posted the flyer design below, but it's important to note that the actual flyers for that show were all hand screened using various color combinations.  Due to our D.I.Y. approach, and a lack of silkscreening experience, no two were the same.  The bands that played the Dischord tribute show, with the exception of the Scurvy Dogs, were all bands that we'd booked numerous times at venues like Burnt Ramen, Mission Records, and Gilman between 2001-2004.