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QueerPunks talks to: Henry Rollins

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Jeremy
at December 22, 2007 in Features, Hotties, Interviews, Jaffa Recommends, QueerPunks.com News and Straight Bands. 9 Comments

QueerPunks.com: So the first thing I have to ask you is how do you keep in such damn fine shape? I need to take notes so I can have all the guys after me too.
Henry Rollins: Eat smart and work out hard, that’s all there is to it. Nothing complicated in the workout itself, you just have to do something with your body. We Americans can be very slothful at times.

QP: Alright, so let’s set facts straight, so to speak. There’s constantly a lot of rumor going around about your sexuality, so for what I’m sure is the umpteenth time please do our readers the favor of clearing that up.
HR: I am heterosexual.

QP: So why as a straight man do you fight so vehemently for gay/queer rights?
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QueerPunks talks to: Larry-Bob

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at December 18, 2007 in Features and Interviews. 8 Comments

QueerPunks.com: So, first off let us know a bit about yourself and where you come from as a person.

Larry-Bob: There were three pivotal events that shaped the trajectory of my life. The first was my initiation into punk rock when I went to college in 1984. The second was coming out a couple years later. The third combined those first two things, and that was finding out about early queer zines like Homocore and JDs in late 1988. Most of what I’ve done in the creative sphere since then has been shaped by those factors.

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QueerPunks talks to: Queer Control Records

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at December 9, 2007 in Interviews and Product Plugs. 1 Comment

QueerPunks.com: Well, let’s start off with a two for one question; let us know a bit about who you are, and how Queer Control Records came about.

Marlene: I’m a Leo, brown eyes, a dazzling smile and heart of gold. Well sort of, my names Marlene an I am one of the founders and marketing director of Queer Control Records. I reside in San Francisco, CA where I base my operations for total world domination. We started QCR a little over 6 months ago. We thought it would be great idea to start a queercore/homocore based record label since it seemed that the genre was at
a standstill. We wanted to seek out a new generation of queercore for today and get it heard!

Skip: Oh shit man, I too am a Leo and enjoy long walks on the beach but I don’t smile very often. I am a recent Florida transplant to New York City. Most of my time is spent helping to run the label, work my day job and play rugby, so basically I don’t get much sleep. QCR was a vision the 3 of us had since we were younger but thankfully as we grew older we realized it is something we can do now. At this point in our lives I think we are all at the same level and we have a pretty good idea of what needs to be brought to the table to benefit queer music. We’re not looking to take over the world (yet) but as Marlene says we just want to get queer music heard.

M: I wanna take over the world now :)

S: Our time will come.

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QueerPunks talks to: Pat from Youth Of Togay

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at August 16, 2007 in Features, Interviews and News. 1 Comment

Youth Of Togay

Recently I went to North Hollywood to meet up with Pat of Youth Of Togay to talk about the bands forthcoming album. After ordering the best damned philly cheese steaks in LA we sat at a booth and talked of the band, their album, the Bridge 9 incident, and the queercore ’scene’ as a whole.

YOTG Durus Compleo white/purpleSo tell me about the new album coming out.

Durus Compleo is a parody album with about six songs. Last spring we went into the studio and recorded six tracks that were supposed to come out on a single. But the guy we sent the plates to to press the albums won’t give us the songs back. Usually it costs about three hundred YOTG Durus Compleo Black/Goldto go through the process of making plates, but this guy wants five-fifty! So those plates are kind of sitting in limbo and we’ve gotta redo all those tracks.

Not long ago though we went in and recorded like eleven tracks in three days. It was great. We went in and I told the band what ideas I had for the songs, like a hardcore mosh type song or something, and we went at it. We practically lived in the studio for three days and came out with some amazing tracks!

Those eleven tracks were going to be three 7 inches, but then it came out to two 7 inches and a CD comp. Each of the records is going to have an exclusive track, which won’t be on the CD. A lot of bands when they put something on vinyl and CD it’s just the same thing on both, so why bother getting the vinyl? But if you give them some incentive, like an exclusive track, then there you go.

Tell me about the band.

Youth Of Togay is originally from Boston, which is known for having a musical history, especially hardcore. I had the idea of putting together a gaycore band and I asked a few friends if they’d want to play. I was looking for people that believe the same thing as I do, whether they were gay straight or bisexual. When it came together I couldn’t have asked for a better group of guys. There’s this whole group dynamic. They’re just as interesting, opening minded, and as funny as I am.

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Limp Wrist interview

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at July 26, 2007 in Interviews and Music Reviews. 1 Comment

American homocore band Limp Wrist accents the “hard” in hardcore
by JOHNSON CUMMINS
Taken from the Montreal Mirror

Limp WristOne of the granddaddies of hardcore punk rock, the late Darby Crash of L.A.’s the Germs, was forced to hide the fact he was gay from the homophobic and brutally violent Huntington Beach crowd. Things were even worse for the queer punk in the macho, street-thug New York crowd or the jock-oriented straight-edge scene in Boston.

Perhaps the rampant homophobia was a product of utter denial— consider hardcore’s almost entirely male audience of shirtless, sweaty skinheads all pig-piling on top of each other or moshing arm and arm, which of course looked gayer then Rip Taylor holding a leather picnic basket.

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Against Me! Interview on The Onion AV Club

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at July 24, 2007 in Interviews, Music News and News. 0 Comments

One of my favorite bands lately has been Against Me! The Onion AV Club has posted a great interview with Tom Gabel from Against Me! where he discusses everything from fan pressure, their major label, and Butch Vig. I think Tom Gabel is pretty cute too.

AVC: Was there any pressure from Sire to make things sound a certain way?

TG: None whatsoever. Really, one of the benefits of working with Butch was getting that pressure off us. Who’s going to question Butch Vig? They’re not going to come in and tell him, “Hey, you have to do this.” He’s fucking Butch Vig. [Laughs.]

Against Me! interview on AV Club

Against Me! MySpace Page

Interview with Indie Rock outfit Grizzly Bear

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at July 18, 2007 in Interviews and Music News. 0 Comments

Hey indie rock lovers!

AfterElton.com has an interesting interview with Ed Droste of current buzz worthy indie rockers Grizzly Bear.

Along with Grizzly Bear, artists such as Chris Garneau, Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons are breaking the gay male musician mold.
ED : I’m surprised you didn’t mention Final Fantasy or Patrick Wolf, and the lead singer from Deerhunter, Bradford Cox.

Those are other good examples. But you’re all essentially breaking the mold, or reinventing it, if you will.
ED : What is the mold? Are you going to use Rufus [Wainwright] as an example? [laughs]

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Interview with Jasten King of Nancy Fullforce

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at July 16, 2007 in Interviews, Multimedia and Music News. 0 Comments

JastenBy Devin Tait of Shitting Glitter

Nancy Fullforce is a relatively new band. When did you form?

The band came together after the last band I was in, KILLRADIO, disbanded a year or so ago. The drummer, Duke, and I always got along really well and had very similar interests in music. We both fans of bands like THE BRONX, MURDER CITY DEVILS, ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, etc… so when I started writing new songs and coming up with the idea of a new band, he was the first person that came to mind to ask about working on it all with. The other guys in the band, JAKE CHAOS and ARMAND, have been friends of mine for years so they came to mind right away when looking for musicians to do the shows with.

Previously, you were involved in the bands KillRadio and The Confused. What was your background in music before those bands?

I have grown up playing guitar and being involved in music since a kid. I had played in the school band in middle school. It didn’t last long though cause I was using a flying V guitar and playing through the keyboardist’s amp whom I’d drown out in volume constantly. So I ended up leaving that to start a band and play for friends after school while in high school. It wasn’t until I moved to San Diego as a teenager that I joined a couple bands and started doing real gigs. Other than playing music, I’ve been involved in music photography and journalism in the past. I’ve done work for SKRATCH, BIG WHEEL, VICE and other random web press. I never thought I was that great at any of that though, it was all just an excuse to get into shows for free and meet the bands I enjoyed.

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Interview: Liberace Morris of Black Fag

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at July 1, 2007 in Interviews and Jasten. 1 Comment

There seems to a buzz (and controversy) going around Los Angeles about a new cover band called BLACK FAG. You see, it’s not you typical “look and sound the part” type of retro-show tat most tribute bands are. Once this band starts to play some seem to love it, some don’t understand it, others are offended and most have a good laugh. I decided to drop a few questions to “Liberace Morris”, singer and frontman of the group, so he could explain for those who might be a little confused…

What made you initially think up the concept for BLACK FAG?

One night I was in a rather silly mood, and I was listening to “jealous again” and I starting singing along with a lisp. I was amazed at how the lisp added a whole new dimension to the song, so I tried it with several other Black Flag songs and soon I realized that Black Flag was the bitchiest band that ever walked the earth!

Who else is in the band and how did you all meet?

Like Black Flag, we have a rotating cast of musicians, but the characters we play include Greg Streisand (our fabulous drag queen guitarist), Cher Dykeowski (our gym-teaching-smith-college-attending-melissa-ethridge-listening-golf-pro lesbian bassist), Robo Simmons (our club-hopping cabana boy drummer), and myself, Liberace Morris (think Fred Schneider meets Charles Nelson Reilly).

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