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Category: Interviews

5 Opening The Cages interview with with Mike XVX by Comrade Black

June 6, 2012
by stinkbot
· Features · Interviews · PE Web Zine

Mike XvX is a long time animal liberation activist, and singer songwriter who tours in the punk, folk punk and hardcore circuits bringing the message of resistance through music and action wherever he goes. Mike has toured extensively, and has taken part in animal liberation campaigns on four continents. Mike is currently organizing a multimedia tour incorporating different genres of music, poetry, film, and demos bringing the message of militant animal liberation and community activism across the west coast.

PE: Tell us a bit about some of the stuff you have been involved in over the years?

Mike XvX: Well other than this tour, I’ve been pretty busy the past few years. As a musician I’ve traveled to about 20 countries in the last three years which has been an amazing experience all on it’s own. Touring as a solo musician gives me the flexibility to tour as frequent as I’d like, wherever I’d like. I feel very fortunate to travel as much as I do to talk about animal rights in front of so many different people the world over, and in that period of time I’ve been lucky enough to build lasting relationships with a lot of folks I normally would have never had the opportunity to meet.

Other than music, I’ve been involved in the animal rights and other movements for almost a decade now. I’ve worked alongside several different groups in that time, and I try to make myself available to anyone that needs help in their campaigns. I work regularly with Portland and Seattle Animal Defense Leagues, volunteer as often as I can with Portland Anarchist Black Cross, as well as have done work for groups like Sea Shepherd in the past. In March of 2011 I traveled to Japan with Sea Shepherd to document the world largest cetacean slaughter, which is the Dall’s Porpoise slaughter in Otsuchi, Iwate. Incidentally, this was also the location of the epicenter of the tsunami that destroyed all of Japan’s northeastern coast, and myself and five other activists narrowly escaped with our lives.

0 Featured Artist for June 2012 Chris Parry

June 4, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews

The featured artist for June 2012 is Chris Parry. Chris has been churning out amazing drawings for some time now and we, and a friend of Chris’s felt it’s high time we do a feature on him. We’re proud to showcase some of his work and tell his story. So without further adieu…

PE: How long have you been creating?

Chris Parry: I’ve been drawing since I was a kid. I started doing art for bands when I was 15. That’s about the time I was starting to attend punk and metal shows, and asking the bands if I could draw their flyers.

PE: Some of your work is tense and emotes a sense of anguish and dispair, but there are also pieces that show a lot of beauty. It’s not the typical doomy crust stuff. What influences your artwork? Which artists have influenced you the most?

CP: I like to incorporate elements of nature, mysticism, magic, depression and religion. I tend to use feminine figures in my work as well. I feel that the use of the female in art adds a sense of beauty, giver of life and the sense of a creator. My influences early on were V.C. Johnson, Pushead, Raymond Pettibon and Jim Phillips. Inspiration from skateboard graphics was huge. Nowadays, I get inspiration from a variety of friends and peers. Artists like John Baizley, Jeremy Hush, Santos, Glyn Smith and Paul Ramano just to name a few. I enjoy keeping up with their recent works. They definitely keep me on my toes.

1 NEUROSIS INTERVIEW

May 27, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews · PE Web Zine

Neurosis interview by Flox ( Fight For Your Mind ) Answers by Steve Von Till. Originally printed in Sedition Magazine France, reposted with permission.

PE: After 27 years Neurosis is releasing a new album in 2012. Can you let us know what to expect from this new comer ? Will it be the soundtrack to the end of the world ? 😉

Steve: Like every new work we embark on, it is the next step in our evolution, the next bend in our path. You can expect it to be honest, emotional, heavy, and beautiful. We are extremely proud and happy with the way the music has guided us. It explores some new sonic territory for us. Some of the ways we are approaching our heavy riffing is new and challenging, the keyboard sounds are really amazing and powerful and Jason is always blowing us away with his rhythms.

PE: Throughout the years Neurosis has evolved from an anarcho punk background going to a much more metallic post hardcore and experimental outlet. Have you found yourselves evolving alot through musical and life experiences that have made you trespass certain boundries to creat your own monster ?

Steve: To us, the freedom we discovered in our early days of what was called “punk” or independent DIY music back then meant there were no rules. We do what we want and what moves and inspires us. If you don’t like it, tough shit, you don’t have to listen to it then. This is completely self centered expression. We don’t cater to anyone’s expectations. We carry that initial inspiration with us always. We have never fit in a box or category and those names people try to give music are completely meaningless to us. We have outlasted most names, scenes, and categories and I am sure we will outlast all of the current terminology as well. We evolve as human beings expressing ourselves through music.

PE: Of course all of your records have a very deeply anchored philosophy and art! These two aspects of the band as well with live performances have made Neurosis a very unique combo and an influential band worldwide. How does all of this come together ? Where do you draw your inspiration from to make all of these aspects come together to make masterpieces ? Are you all pretty much perfectionnists ?

Steve: We are definitely not perfectionists. This music is very organic and comes from the soul. We don’t labor over it intellectually. There is no such thing as “perfect”. I think when people obsess on trying to reach perfection they often sterilize any real emotion and humanity right out of their art. Any ideas that may come from our brains are inherently less powerful than the natural flow that shines when we surrender to that driven force that exists both outside and within us. We record in a pure manner, live as a band straight to tape, no tricks, no bullshit. The philosophy is the philosophy of being emotional beings contemplating our existence. The artwork tries to give a visual backdrop for the emotional landscapes created by the music. It is hard to describe with words. That is why we use sound.

0 Meet PE’s featured artist for May 2012 Daniel Wieken!

May 4, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews

Daniel Wieken first came to our attention through his work but it was a friend of his who ratted him out and said we had to feature him or die horribly. We agreed, but mostly because we like his work and his snappy outfits, no one here is afraid of death.

PE: How long have you been creating?

Dan Weiken: Since I could hold a pencil.

PE: What influences your artwork? Which artists have influenced you the most?

DW: Underground commix, bones, skulls,feathers fur.
Robert Crumb, Walton Ford, Manuel Ocampo, Arron Horkey, Wes Lang,William Stout

PE: Unlike many punk and doomy crust artists, you use a lot of color. Was this a way for you
to break out? Or is this mainly the influence of a client?

DW:Both. Almost everything I did for a really long time was strictly black and white ink drawings.

3 A Chat with Can- Cannibals founder Vaudie Va-Boom Interview by Ami LawLess

April 9, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews · PE Web Zine

As a premiere entertainer in the “New Burlesque Revival” movement Vaudie Va-Boom has been creating a hybrid genre of “punk-cabaret/burlesque” over the past few years that has created quite a stir here on the West Coast. I had the chance to chat with Vaudie before her performance at The Skylark in my neighborhood, The Mish SF. Over a couple glasses of ice water we started our chat in The Skylark but when that proved a bit too noisy, quickly moved over to the café next door. I first got to know Vaudie through Pyrate Punx, she was a founding member of the Sin-Valley PP Crue; Eventually relocating to the Bay Area. Vaudie brought a different, unexplored element to the typical punk shows that had been occurring at the warehouse she was living in at the time in Oakland. The Can-Cannibals (the world’s only cannibalistic can-can troupe) rose from the wrong side of the tracks and began their flesh eating frenzy at the first ever Valentine Punk-Rock Cabaret in February of 2008. Vaudie however has been performing cabaret since high school. This lady has done it all; dance, performance, modeling, choreography, teaching, acting, promoting, set design, make-up and hell I’ll let her tell it…”ladies and gentleman, PE readership, here’s VAUDIE VA-BOOM!”

PE- What drew you into doing burlesque and forming the Can-Cannibals? Which do you prefer performing with a troupe or solo?

Vaudie- I’ve always been a bit of a ham, and I really got into performing during high school in Modesto where I took dance and drama classes all four years. My first burlesque performance was actually in a high school production of Guys and Dolls to a song called “Take Back Your Mink.” Of course, we didn’t strip down to pasties, but I did get to strip down to a bustier and bloomers in front of pretty much my whole high school and other pretty large audiences, and hey, it was FUN! After I graduated, I danced the can-can in a community theater production of Beauty and the Beast (I was a can-can dancing napkin) which started my love for that type of dance too. When I moved to the bay area from Modesto, I really wanted to continue performing so I got connected with the people at the Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and auditioned for their resident can-can troupe called Le CanCan Bijou and made it in. It is a very “traditional” troupe, and I wanted to do something a little more “alternative” so I decided to start my own troupe. I didn’t start performing solo for a couple more years after the Can-Cannibals were formed. Performing solo vs. with a troupe is just so different, it’s hard to compare.

PE- I’ve seen you perform at The Dickens Fair, really cool and it being a time period (Victorian London) really gives it a raw bawdy feel. Not what most Americans see when catching a burlesque show.

Vaudie- Le CanCan Bijou are a very traditional troupe, they really take it back to the original days of Can-Can performance and are all very good at what they do. I encourage people to come to The Dickens Fair and see us.

0 Featured Artist for April 2012 Nesha

April 4, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews

PE: Even though alot of people in the punk scene are familiar with your art can you please introduce yourself ?

Nesha: Hi Flox, first of all thanx for doing this interview with me.I Think people who are familiar with my artwork already know alot about me, cause my artwork transparently show my views of reality and my imagination…but for the record, my name is Nesha (better known as the guy behind Doomsday Graphics), I’m 36 years old, living in Berlin, Germany for almost 2 years now…born in communist Yugoslavia, grown up and lived most of my life in Serbia,the country that was involved in few wars, dictatorship, big economic crisis, international isolation, and brutal transition in recent history, that influenced me a lot as a person and artist. Beside this, things that influence me and I’m interested in,are visual art, especially painted/ draw surrealist art, and people behind it…different subgenres of punk and metal music, individualism, 70s and 80s post-apocalyptic, SF and horror movies and literature…comics…history of 20th century, especially World War II…

PE: It’s been years that I’ve known you now and it’s crazy the amount of work you have done. For how long have you been drawing ? And how did you get involved in art and then into punk art ?

Nesha:I’ve draw my whole life…my first memories are connected with drawing…when I was a kid,different kind of pens and paper was my favorite toys…but that was my thing in those times, I didn’t have vision of me becoming an artist, I grow up in small place, village, nobody from my family was artist or something…first time I was exposed to the world of art was when I entered high school for graphics design…I learned a lot there about technics, history of art, etc. ,and got exposed to work of Hieronymus Bosch, Eduard Munch, M.C. Escher, H.R. Giger between others, but also to the work of my classmates…About more or less same time I got into punk, and later d.i.y movement…I was attracted not just with music and lyrics, but also with covers of the records done by Gee Vaucher, Pushead, Jeff Gaither, Nick Blinko, etc. Also in those times there was a lot of art fanzines going around, like Sivulinen from Finland…first cover artwork I did was a tape cover for my first band Unutrasnji Bunt split with our friends Agitator(also from Serbia). After this my artwork started to be published in fanzines in Serbia and abroad…but that was different time, before domination of internet, the world was still not so small like today…

4 Turning Words into Action: An Interview with ALF The Lone Wolf

April 3, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews · PE Web Zine

Abdul Haqq, more commonly known as Walter Bond, is currently serving a 12 year sentence for his actions taken as an operative of the ALF. Abdul has been involved in the hardcore and punk scene for about 2 decades and even had a song written about him by a well known band. I have been writing to Abdul for ever since his most recent arrest on July 23 2010.

This interview was conducted by Comrade Black.

PE: This isn’t the first time you’ve been imprisoned for your political actions. Can you tell us about why you were locked up before, and what you are in jail for this time?

AH: My first time in prison was for one charge of 2nd degree arson and aggravated criminal mischief. It was a state case in Iowa for burning down the home and extensive methamphetamine operation of a major drug dealer. A bit of retribution for manufacturing poison to the community, and my family in particular. Currently I am serving a 12 years in federal prison for the 2010 ‘ALF Lone Wolf’ arsons. I burned down a Sheepskin Factory in Denver, a Leather Factory and a restaurant that sold Foie Gras (bloated duck liver) both of these businesses were in the Salt Lake City area.

1 MISERY interview

March 5, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews · PE Web Zine

MISERY is a band that needs no introduction. Hailing from the epicenter of the late-80s American anarchopunk movement, they have continuously kept at it for almost 25 years now. After releasing a number of split albums over the years, they have released their first proper full-length in more than fifteen years, From Where the Sun Never Shines. In my humble opinion, this is the best material the band has ever recorded. I decided that since they haven’t been interviewed for PE in more than 20 years, this was a perfect excuse to catch up with the lads.

Email conducted via e-mail by Damien Inbred. All questions were answered by the band as a collective.

PE: Right, so I’m sure most of us are familiar with the band’s history. But since it’s been about 20 years (or more) since you were interviewed in PE, can you give a brief run-down of how MISERY started?

A brief run-down really couldn’t do a very long story any justice, so we’ll give you MISERY-“the long fucked up story”.

Jon and Gary grew up together, bought their instruments in the early 80s and started learning how to make different noises while screaming silly shit about the government and how everything was pretty fucked up. Growing up with the constant threat of nuclear war could lead to actions of the sort. In 1985, Gary moved to Minneapolis to spend some quality time living in the trunk of his car and frying some chicken for a living. He soon hooked up with a bunch of fucking clowns that lived in a large apartment building down town called 10th and Harmon Place. This was a whole building full of 100% pure, filthy, drunken fucking chaos, which was the Minneapolis punk scene all in one beautiful package. This was where Al and Gags came from. Jon made a few visits to this fine establishment with his guitar and amp and started doing some more music with Gary. Al took notice, and they started planning for a band in the future.

In 1986, Gary and Jon moved to Portland, Oregon where they started playing some more while living off giving plasma, food stamps, and the Green House soup kitchen. After finding some poor bastard that rented them a house, they hooked up with Sid and started playing together in the garage. After spending about a year in Portland learning how to be total pissheads with the help of those beasts from POISON IDEA, they headed back to Minneapolis to get things going with Al.

0 TAM89 Records interview with Luk Haas

March 5, 2012
by stinkbot
· Features · Interviews · PE Web Zine

Luk Haas has been quite an influence on third world international punk hardcore with his label Tian An Men 89′ after all of these years. No other punk label has gone this far to bring us some of the most surprising records ever and most of this has been done before the internet age. Here is a chat with the man that has yet to see a border ( he’s walked over 120 countries ) that doesn’t have a counter culture to offer. A incredible breath of fresh air and inspiring!

Interview conducted by Flox

0 KRUM BUMS interview

February 29, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews · PE Web Zine

Krum Bums interview by AKD

Cut the Noose

This interview was conducted with Dave, the lead singer for KRUM BUMS when they passed through Omaha, Nebraska in May 2011.

My husband Donny helped book the show at an all ages venue called THE HOLE (which was written about in the last issue and sadly is no more…) We met in a bar across the street after the show where I got to pick his brain a little bit. This is the result….

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The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

We are happy to announce our next new release

WILT – “Self Titled”

Here is a track from the upcoming LP

“Sermon for the Bootlickers”

STORM OF SEDITION – “Decivilize” LP

Are you prepared to brave the storm?…

Comes with a 12 page booklet containing lyrics, notes, and song explanations.

-CLICK HERE FOR PURCHASE INFORMATION-

STORM OF SEDITION WILL TOURING THE WEST COAST THIS SUMMER!!!

Keep you eye’s peeled for a list of tour dates soon!

Listen to the song “Disconnect” here…

Living a domesticated existence
Starves people of meaning in their lives
Everyone feels the void beneath the surface
Of everyday activities and routines

Category: Interviews

5 Opening The Cages interview with with Mike XVX by Comrade Black

0 Featured Artist for June 2012 Chris Parry

1 NEUROSIS INTERVIEW

0 Meet PE’s featured artist for May 2012 Daniel Wieken!

3 A Chat with Can- Cannibals founder Vaudie Va-Boom Interview by Ami LawLess

0 Featured Artist for April 2012 Nesha

4 Turning Words into Action: An Interview with ALF The Lone Wolf

1 MISERY interview

0 TAM89 Records interview with Luk Haas

0 KRUM BUMS interview