Category: Acoustic Punk
“Grace Petrie’s fourth studio album is a return to big-sound political rants with a folk-punk energy and a big heart. A collection of leftwing anthems to soundtrack the next five years’ struggle.”
“This is a benefit for Pepe, the founder of the DIY Bandits who was sentenced to nearly 5 years in Federal Prison for marijuana conspiracy charges in 2019. Help him buy some peanut butter and vitamins while he’s serving time. Find more info about his situation at www.preparingforfreedom.org
Over 20 tracks from friends of the Bandits, some of which have never been released before or are kinda hard to find. If you wanna help Pepe buy some extra peanut butter and vitamins while in prison please give a few extra dollars if you can spare it.”
Pat the Bunny is my favorite singer-songwriter. This is a compilation of all the songs he recorded in the first iteration of his musical identity, when he was a teenage drifter anarchist addict singing under the name Johnny Hobo. These songs were all released as a series of demo EPs of super ghetto–but still so beautiful–recording quality, and this is an attempt to improve the quality of all those recordings made in squats and encampments across the country on his travels, to bring them all together in one magnificent album of semi-acoustic anarchist anthems. ♥ Neonn
“My predictions of what we would be allowed this time were all surpassed by the crowd around me, who were blessed with the inexperience necessary to push beyond the limits of what was possible. So-called “knowledge” becomes a liability when one context is mistaken for another. The same series of motions that wins someone a boxing match will lose them a knife fight.
I was mistaken that night. I thought we were on a different field playing a different game. The truth is I don’t know the world I act within well enough to justify a moment of certainty. Of course I deceive myself into many such moments, because the scale of chaos that swirls around me is beyond comprehension. But if you ask me the point of undertaking the small acts of resistance I find within my reach, I must admit: “Probably nothing, but possibly everything.”
And those are the best odds I can expect to play if I am in the
habit of believing in troubling things like freedom. I might never
know the results of what we do, but I have trouble thinking they
could be worse than if we had done nothing at all.”