The Gallows – Trash Talk – at The Warehouse – Aberdeen, UK – November 29, 2009

Trash Talk from California, USA are one of the most intense bands I have seen, their full on full pace show is very hardcore. Straight from the off the singer is in the crowd, making people dance, shoving them about, spilling their drinks. Meanwhile the rest of the band are on stage playing like men possessed but also throwing water at the crowd. The drummer threw a stick at the crowd allegedly hurting a young girl. Read more

Music play list for the week ending November 29, 2009

Top 25  - In no particular order -

Middle Class – What We Do
Fake Boys – Logical Ape
America’s Hardcore – America’s Hardcore
Word For Word – Defend Manchester
Bouncing Souls – Manthem
Vanilla Muffins – No Punk Rock In My Car
Undertones – Jimmy Jimmy
Chain Of Strength – True Til Death
Operation Ivy – The Crowd
Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
Rat Byte – Fuck the Cops
Oldschool 101 – 315
John Lennon – Imagine
The Inoculators – Moped
Reel Big Fish – Take On Me
Agent Orange – Mr. Moto
The Scarred – Low Life
Subhumans – Religious Wars
JFA – Bouncer Read more

Dirty Secrets of Black Friday Doorbusters – That is if you have any money to spend

If there are any of you that even have any money, there are some things to watch out for on Friday.

Here’s a Black Friday reality check: Of the hordes of pre-dawn shoppers who line up for hours outside stores on the day after Thanksgiving, most will not bag the best bargains that appear in merchants’ circulars.

Look at the fine print that appears next to an advertised "doorbuster deal" at the bottom of the page in this year’s circulars. Read all about it here >>>

Cyber Narcissists and Psychopaths

The Internet is an extension of the real-life Narcissistic Pathological Space but without its risks, injuries, and disappointments. In the virtual universe of the Web, the narcissist vanishes and reappears with ease, often adopting a myriad aliases and nicknames. He (or she) can thus fend off criticism, abuse, disagreement, and disapproval effectively and in real time – and, simultaneously, preserve the precarious balance of his infantile personality. Narcissists are, therefore, prone to Internet addiction. Read more here >>>

We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". These are the old or colloquial names for a patient with the Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD). It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths. The latter may simply be a less inhibited and less grandiose form of the former. Some scholars have suggested the existence of a hybrid "psychopathic narcissist", or "narcissistic psychopath". Read more here so you can quickly identify them >>>

Living At The Movies

Since its inception Punk rock has shared a mutually exploiting relationship with the media. While the media has latched onto the sensational aspects of Punk rock in order to freak out nervous parents and to increase their audience. Meanwhile Punk rockers have used the media’s hunger for a story for various purposes, whether it be just to fuck with some straight laced reporters or just to get some free promotion. Some of the most interesting products of this strange relationship have been Read more

Let Them Know: Story of Youth Brigade & BYO Records

This package is definitely a lot to take in- two L.P.’s, one CD, one DVD, and a one hundred page book. The goal is to tell the story of BYO Records and Youth Brigade extensively in a multimedia fashion and the folks at BYO really deliver here. The CD and records play the same program- thirty one track of various bands covering songs from the BYO Read more

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