John Liam Policastro
Anti-Nowhere League Bought Harleys Thanks to Metallica
Anti-Nowhere League are not your typical English punks. The band, which has been around since 1980, is more likely to dry-hump Kelly Bundy on your dad’s couch than protest an oil spill. They’re blue-collar outlaws, not art school misanthropes. We sat...
I Interviewed a German Record Store Owner About America
There are very few places where kindness to your fellow man or woman exists anymore. As I walked around Hannover on a blue-skied sunny morning, I discovered the excellent Rockers Records and chatted with the owner Chris over a coffee to find out what's...
A Skinhead from Guatemala Tells It Like It Is
In what can be possibly be the only other immediate link between British and NYC youth of the 1980s (besides jerking off to Madonna videos), the Skinhead movement battered the face of underground music. While the kids of London were mainly angry and...
I Talked to Two Red Sox Fans at Fenway Park
Bostonians care more about their enemies losing than actually accomplishing anything themselves. No one sums up this better than the Fenway Faithful. The only constant remaining is the negativity on Yawkey Way flowing like the spoiled Schilling...
I Talked to Tesco Vee About Music, Blowjobs, and Mitt Romney
Touch and Go co-founder Tesco Vee is credited with creating one of the most vital fanzines and labels in the history of underground music. Fresh off from pumping up the punk economy with his own Tesco Fest in Detroit, we spoke to the Meatmen and Hate...
I Saw the Murder Junkies in Avon and Talked to Merle Allin
A chance encounter with Merle Allin, GG Allin’s brother, on Newbury Street in Boston led me to Avon, Connecticut, on a Tuesday night, where I found out just how serious Merle is about carrying on where he brother left off. After the show—which turned...
An Interview with a Maggot and His Dad at a Slipknot Show
An Interview with a Maggot and His Dad at a Slipknot Show