My first musical offering to the fediverse! I just uploaded an album by my old band New Bloods to bandwagon.fm. We were a dancey post-punk trio with violin. New Bloods formed in Portland, Oregon in 2006 and broke up two years later, releasing one 7" on Raw Sugar Records and an LP on #KillRockStars in that time. We toured the US extensively and Western Europe once. Our biggest influences were bands like The Raincoats, ESG and The Slits.
https://bandwagon.fm/@newbloods
#postpunk #punk #queerpunk #BlackPunk #femmepunk #riotgrrrl #bandwagonfm #fedimusic

My first musical offering to the fediverse! I just uploaded an album by my old band New Bloods to bandwagon.fm. We were a dancey post-punk trio with violin. New Bloods formed in Portland, Oregon in 2006 and broke up two years later, releasing one 7" on Raw Sugar Records and an LP on #KillRockStars in that time. We toured the US extensively and Western Europe once. Our biggest influences were bands like The Raincoats, ESG and The Slits.
https://bandwagon.fm/@newbloods
#postpunk #punk #queerpunk #BlackPunk #femmepunk #riotgrrrl #bandwagonfm #fedimusic

“Black Weirdos” from the first issue of #ShotgunSeamstress zine (2006) featuring #FlorynceKennedy and #SunRa.

20 years ago it felt necessary to assert our right as Black people to express ourselves freely without our racial identity being called into question. (In other words, other Black people might say you were “acting white” if you exhibited any behaviors outside of what was considered the norm for Black people, including listening to rock music.)

While so many social issues remain the same or have even worsened since then, I’m glad to say that I’ve seen improvement in this area over the last couple of decades. If you dare to call a Black punk rock, book smart, awkward, nerdy anime loving gamer “white” you just look like an ignorant dumbass at this point.

#zines#BlackPunk #BlackLiberation #BlackFedi#DontCallMeWhite#Xerox #photocopy#CutAndPaste

“Black Weirdos” from the first issue of #ShotgunSeamstress zine (2006) featuring #FlorynceKennedy and #SunRa.

20 years ago it felt necessary to assert our right as Black people to express ourselves freely without our racial identity being called into question. (In other words, other Black people might say you were “acting white” if you exhibited any behaviors outside of what was considered the norm for Black people, including listening to rock music.)

While so many social issues remain the same or have even worsened since then, I’m glad to say that I’ve seen improvement in this area over the last couple of decades. If you dare to call a Black punk rock, book smart, awkward, nerdy anime loving gamer “white” you just look like an ignorant dumbass at this point.

#zines#BlackPunk #BlackLiberation #BlackFedi#DontCallMeWhite#Xerox #photocopy#CutAndPaste

My friend in #Asheville, NC sent me a photo of my book at Firestorm Books. Happy to see #JamesSpooner’s book, High Desert, right below. It’s a comic about growing up a #biracial #punk in Southern California.

At the zine event I just did, people in the audience had heard of the #AfroPunk festival but never heard of the DIY #documentary that it was named for. Spooner drove around the country back in the early 2000s interviewing #BlackPunk rockers who, at the time, were racially isolated in their respective scenes. This movie changed the entire landscape for everyone but especially Black kids in the punk scene, giving a voice to our various experiences. You can find the video online for free, I believe.

#ShotgunSeamstress #zines#ZineAnthology #independentbooksellers#IndependentBookshop @firestorm

My friend in #Asheville, NC sent me a photo of my book at Firestorm Books. Happy to see #JamesSpooner’s book, High Desert, right below. It’s a comic about growing up a #biracial #punk in Southern California.

At the zine event I just did, people in the audience had heard of the #AfroPunk festival but never heard of the DIY #documentary that it was named for. Spooner drove around the country back in the early 2000s interviewing #BlackPunk rockers who, at the time, were racially isolated in their respective scenes. This movie changed the entire landscape for everyone but especially Black kids in the punk scene, giving a voice to our various experiences. You can find the video online for free, I believe.

#ShotgunSeamstress #zines#ZineAnthology #independentbooksellers#IndependentBookshop @firestorm