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| Age: | 32 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | May 21, 2009 (211 days back) |
About Me |
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| For the past six years I have been assembling a book about the nineties hardcore music scene called Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound. While Steven Blush's American Hardcore was an excellent examination of the pioneers of the hardcore punk movement, after reading his book one gets the impression that hardcore died in 1986. Although that particular era of hardcore may have ended in 1986, an influx of new bands took the genre to new places, the story of which shall be told in Burning Fight.
Picking up where eighties hardcore punk innovators left off, nineties hardcore sparked profound change and debate across musical, social, spiritual, and political landscapes. Many of the ideals that were ingrained in hardcore since its beginning were taken in new and often controversial directions. Inspired by the music and the community that developed around the scene, many immersed in hardcore’s ethical and social movements such as straight edge, animal rights, D.I.Y., spirituality, and a host of other issues debated these beliefs and implemented them into their own lives, eventually taking what they learned outside the hardcore scene and influencing the broader culture. At the same time, many of the ideologies that united people ended up dividing them in the long run, which eventually led to the splintering this era of hardcore by the decade's end. Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound draws upon the memories of many who played influential roles in the scene and understand what made this era of hardcore so unique in its ability to synthesize music and ideology into what for many felt like was a powerful counter-cultural movement, where change was just around the corner. The book will feature several sections with input from approximately 150 musicians, zine-makers, D.I.Y. practitioners, activists, and hooligans from this era. The chapters will focus on nineties hardcore era straight edge, animal rights/vegetarianism/veganism, politics/ethics/activism, spirituality, and revolutions in sound--the "sound" section will contain "oral history" articles on bands including Earth Crisis, 108, Unbroken, Los Crudos, Inside Out, Burn, Shelter, Endpoint, Groundwork, Integrity, Swing Kids, Vegan Reich, Avail, Threadbare, Cave In, Spitboy, Undertow, Deadguy, Racetraitor, Texas is the Reason, Split Lip, Ressurection, Damnation A.D., Rorschach, Coalesce and many others. Burning Fight is available right now through Revelation Records: http://revhq.com/store.revhq?Page=search&BandId=8929 It is also available via these fine distributors and outlets: US MAILORDERS: REVELATION RECORDS, DEATHWISH INC, INTERPUNK, STICKFIGURE US STORES: EARSHOT, EXTREME NOISE RECORDS, RED SCROLL RECORDS, NEWBURY COMICS HQ, RASPUTIN - BERKELEY, ULTRASOUND RECORDS, REDSCROLL RECORDS BOOK MAILORDERS/SUPPLIERS: AK PRESS DISTRIBUTORS: EBULLITION RECORDS, INGRAM BOOK COMPANY-TN, STICKFIGURE, LAST GASP, SCRATCH DISTRIBUTION OVERSEAS: DISK UNION USA INC(JAPAN), COMMITMENT DISTRIBUTION (GERMANY), CR JAPAN (JAPAN), JAN ALBIN (GERMANY), JOZSI ANDROS (HUNGARY), KILL THE MUSIC (AUSTRALIA), PASAZER (POLAND), REALITY RECORDS (THE NETHERLANDS), REFLECTIONS (THE NETHERLANDS), RESIST RECORDS (AUSTRALIA) |
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My Interests |
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I'd like to meet:Hardcore kids, makers of zines, straight edge kids, vegan/vegetarians, activists, photographers, basement show hosts and generally anyone with a good heart. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
My Blog |
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A.P. online feature and book giveaway contest |
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| Hey all,Here's a link to an interview I recently did with Alternative Press about Burning Fight:A.P.Also, there's a book contest that AP is sponsoring as well. They are giving away five copies of Bur... Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 17:20:00 GMT |
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Thank you/update |
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| Wow&
The past two weekends have been unbelievable! Thanks so much to everyone for coming out to
the shows and for their support for Burning
Fight. I put six years of my life
into making B... Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 18:27:00 GMT |
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more press... |
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| Greg Kot from the Chicago Tribune just posted a story on Burning Fight. Check it out:Greg Kot/Chicago Tribune: http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2009/04/ch
icago-schoolteacher-spells-... Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:52:00 GMT |
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Burning Fight Interviewee Bios |
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| If you're curious to see a complete list of everyone interviewed for Burning Fight and what they're up to these days, please check out the following link:Burning Fight Bios (http://www.burningfightbo... Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:33:00 GMT |
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Press... |
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| A couple of articles were recently posted about Burning Fight. Check them out:The Dispatch/Argushttp://leoweekly.com/music/fight-club
http://leoweekly.com/music/qa-duncan-barlowAfter some editing ... Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:41:00 GMT |
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Theme Park Experience Interview |
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| Hey all,Eric Grubbs (author of Post) just did an interview with me about Burning Fight for his blog, Theme Park Experience. Check it out...Theme Park Experience (http://themeparkexperience.blogspot.... Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:59:00 GMT |
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Rock for Reading |
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Pre-order Burning Fight from Rev HQ |
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| Revelation has just posted a link to pre-order Burning Fight directly from them. Shipping date should be around May 7th. If you order directly from Rev HQ (or some other select indie outlets) the co... Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:22:00 GMT |
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Burning Fight book cover |
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| Hey all,The Burning Fight book cover is now posted as my main profile picture. Check it out!More info about the book, its availability, and places to pre-order it coming soon...Take care,Brian/Burnin... Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:07:00 GMT |
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Revolver April 2009 Issue |
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| Hey all,Aaron Burgess wrote up a brief mention of the book and shows for the Hardcore News section in the April 2009 issue of Revolver. Check it out! More info coming soon... Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:16:00 GMT |
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