Skinhead Culture is Alive and Well On The West Coast


Suburban Rebels zine pulls together the best of the hardcore, punk and Oi! scenes from the Bay Area and beyond.

Pete Markowicz aka Big Skinhead Pete raised hell with his crew of fellow skinheads growing up in Bergen County, New Jersey. They drank, caused trouble and got mean in the mosh pit at hardcore and Oi! shows. Writing about bands nobody else cared about was the only thing that finally got him through high school – after six years of trying and one expulsion. Almost two decades later, and from the other side of the continent, Pete’s giving back to the culture he credits with saving his life. His zine Suburban Rebels pulls together the best of skinhead culture from the Bay Area and beyond, and brings the best punk, hardcore and Oi! bands to the masses in black and white photocopied form.  

When and why did you start making zines?
I wrote for the music sections of both college papers at the schools I attended in New Jersey. It took me six years to graduate, haha. I even got kicked out but somehow talked my way back in and graduated. I failed all my classes but the only thing that kept me there was writing about music that no one cared about and having it printed. I interviewed an Oi! band called Criminal Intent (bizarre to think about an Oi! band being in a college newspaper) and reviewed records like the first Transplants album. I moved to California and started to meet people in the Oi!/street punk/hardcore scene out here and it was a bit quiet with the whole Oi! skinhead scene in the Bay Area. I’ve been going to shows since I was 13 years old. This is my life. I don’t just want to take, I wanted to give something back to the scene that saved my life. Music has gotten me through really hard times in my life and has given me a place to belong with other people who can’t relate to society and think differently. The outsiders. I was never good at playing an instrument, so I took my writing skills and creativity and started a zine. It’s my outlet for the bullshit of everyday life. I guess it’s my calling in life, I don’t know. I like having a zine and Suburban Rebels has grown over the past 5 years into something I am proud of.  

What do you like about the medium?
It’s old school. I would rather have a physical copy of a book than a PDF; a record rather than an MP3. Computers make things easier but in a way, it’s ruining that connection you have with that object you can hold in your hand. I’m taking it back to ’77!

 

What’s Suburban Rebels all about?
Music for social outcasts! It started out as just an Oi! zine but has branched out a bit. It’s still for all the skinheads out there and anyone that likes and respects the subculture.

How do you go about creating each issue and how do you choose the stories and artwork? Interviewing bands gets the ball rolling. I have interviewed (or attempted to interview) every band I love and respect. The artwork is chosen based on how I’m feeling at the time or just what flows and fits the page. I pretty much write about things I care about, I don’t care if people like it or not. I created artwork based on the Zodiac killer in San Francisco once. I used to live in the neighbourhood where he killed the cab driver. The street corner was near my apartment. It’s a very chilling and terrible thing. Some people might be offended by that. Things like that influence my work but it’s mostly skinheads and things I relate to.  

What do you do for a living and how does zinemaking fit into your life?
  I work in a boring office that deals with processing documents. Sometimes it gets interesting when a celebrity comes up but most famous people suck anyways (insert the Anti-Heros song “Fuck Hollywood”). I don’t have much time to work on the zine because of being a Dad and working a full time job. But I do sneak in working on the zine at work, just like I’m working on this interview, hahahahhahah!  

Have you swapped Suburban Rebels for any good zines?
I did once but I can’t remember the name of the zine. It had an interview with my brother Lars Frederiksen of the Old Firm Casuals in it.  

What are your favourite zines?
Quality of my Life by my long time friend, Jesse Gasface. He was maybe the first skinhead I met back in my youth and we caused trouble, drank, had a crew B.C.T. (Bergen County Thugs) in New Jersey that looked out for each other at hardcore and Oi! shows, and had a lot of fun! His zine was a big inspiration for Suburban Rebels. Watch out for Gasface in the pit, he’s a mean one! Oi!

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Rancid - Honor Is All We Know 2014

 ...Honor Is All We Know is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid, released on October 27, 2014

Honor is all we know track list
1. Back where I belong
2. Raise your fist
3. Collision course
4. Evil's my friend
5. Honor is all we know
6. A power inside
7. In the streets
8. Face up
9. Already dead
10. Diabolical
11. Malfunction
12. Now we're through with you
13. Everybody's sufferin'
14. Grave Digger
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Kingkong vol.2


Perhelatan akbar gigs atau reuni para punkers se-Jakarta dan kota-kota sekitarnya akan diselenggarakan tinggal hitungan hari. Punk atau musik yang beraliran punk di Indonesia khususnya di Jakarta mempunyai ceritanya sendiri, dibandingkan dengan aliran musik lainnya seperti Pop, Metal, Rock dan Reggae. Punk mempunyai komunitas atau penikmat tersendiri di kalangan anak muda di Indonesia. Di Jakarta sendiri, Punk mempunyai fenomena yang bisa dibilang pasang-surut. Susahnya izin oleh pihak atau aparat setempat, membuat komunitas ini membuat “mandek” untuk masalah gigs. Berbeda dengan aliran musik pada umumnya, yang jika mengadakan konser dengan mudah disetujui oleh aparat, dan satu lagi mempunyai banyak iklan yang perkara financial bisa dibilang tak ada masalah. Punk adalah sebuah perlawanan tentang itu semua, menolak adanya “embel-embel” iklan, dikerjakan secara kolektif  dan bergotong-royong. Seperti yang sudah diketahui atau dijalani para punker yang memiliki pedoman do it yourself atau sering disebut dengan D.I.Y. dengan rasa kebersamaan yang tinggi, maka Komunitas Punk Jakarta, membuat gigs yang melanjutkan gigs tahun lalu, dan tahun ini, Pakalolo Records membuat gigs yang ia beri nama “Kingkong vol. 2”. Seperti melanjutkan atau meneruskan tahun sebelumnya, Kingkong vol. 2 ini akan menampilkan band-band punk yang sudah malang-melintang dan tetap konsisten di jalur punk yang antara lain : Molotov Cocktail, The Tot, Fisticuff 86, Chaos RI, Kremlin, Klepto, Total Distroy, Last Drive, dan masih banyak yang lainnya. Kingkong vol.2 ini akan diselenggarakan di Plaza Selatan Gelora Bung Karno Senayan Jakarta pada hari Sabtu 21 Februari 2015, mulai pukul 12.00-19.00 WIB.
Ini mungkin adalah hajatan Punk terbesar tahun ini di jakarta bahkan di Indonesia. Kawan-kawan yang ikut mengisi acara ini tak hanya band dari Jakarta dan Tangerang. Tapi dari Jogjakarta, Pemalang, Temanggung dan dari punk pantai utara kota Indramayu. Sebagai komunitas yang masih dipandang sebelah mata oleh masyarakat masa kini, para pelaku punk tetap akan membuktikan bahwa punk tidak kriminal dan tidak vandalism. Dan sudah saya bahas di awal, bahwa acara ini tidak ada iklan yang menopang atau memback-up. Maka dari itu, tiket presale sudah dijual dari beberapa waktu lalu yang harganya Rp. 20.000,- dan untuk on the spot beda Rp 10.000,- yaitu menjadi Rp. 30.000,-. Jika kawan-kawan ingin atau acara ini akan terus berlangsung setiap tahunnya, maka belilah tiket. Karena kita (punk) atau panitia bisa membuat acara dari hasil pembelian tiket kalian dari itulah acara ini terselanggara. Hargai jerih payah Pakalolo yang sudah membuat acara sebesar ini, yang mungkin di kota-kota lain sulit terlaksana karena masalah izin dan tentu saja dengan biaya.

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THE EXPLOITED To Release New Studio Album Next Summer

THE EXPLOITED To Release New Studio Album Next Summer
British punk legends THE EXPLOITED are working on a new studio album for a summer 2015 release via Nuclear Blast. It will mark the band's first CD since singer Wattie Buchan suffered a heart attack on stage during THE EXPLOITED's concert on February 13 in Lisbon, Portugal during the "Tour Of Chaos" with HATEBREED and NAPALM DEATH.
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Founded in 1980 in Edinburgh by Wattie Buchan, THE EXPLOITED's last studio album, "Fuck The System", came out in 2003.

Close Shave-Bad Reputation

 
December saw the release of Close Shave's second album outing since they got back together. Having done artwork for the first CD, I was asked to design the 2nd one. It appeared some of the tracks had already seen an outing on the first CD so I wasn't expecting anything any different than what had already been released. How wrong I was to be. I had heard good reports about it prior to listening to it. The quality compared to the previous album really shines through. Even tracks like My Brother Mark, The Real Oi!, Won't Say Sorry and Can't Stand Northern Soul have been improved upon no end. I found myself liking them a lot more this time around. The sound is of a quality on a par with Oi! classics of the golden years by The Rejects, Sparrer, 4-Skins, Business and the Last Resort. I swear I can even hear some Ramones and some Upstarts in there somewhere.
The songs that stand out on the album are Who Made You the Voice of the National Conscience, A Sapper's Tale, The title track - Bad Reputation and the rework of You're Wondering Now. It does actually work well yet still true enough to the original. I don't know what has happened between the two albums but I should imagine a lot of hard work and a lot of thought about the songwriting. There are some memorable riffs, some great bass-line breaks and a lot of great guitar soloing that make this album deserved of the title of "Best Oi! album in years". If you have Made in Brum and were in any doubt about getting the follow-up CD - don't hesitate. Their critics would like nothing more than to see them fail but based on this CD, they have proved themself to be producing the best streetpunk in the UK bar none. You wil  NOT be disappointed. I give it at least 9/10.

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