The News Review:
- From Love Songs to the Fake Mafia: An Interview with the Queers
- eKantipur.com – Nepal’s No.1 News Portal
- Music Preview: Evan Dando puckers up to a punky Lemonheads tour
From Love Songs to the Fake Mafia: An Interview with the Queers
PopMatters – Feb 19, 2007
They didn’t sit down to write Dookie and say ‘h fuck if we write this type of song we’ll get big. ’” The fact that the schlockiest pre-fab punk bands imaginable routinely make it big in the mainstream is a standard gripe from fans of any variety of independent music but Joe finds it particularly irksome. After all he got into writing surfy punk songs because he so loved the Ramones Black Flag and the Angry Samoans not because he figured he’d be able to parlay it into a career. Even from bands on MySpace Joe sometimes notices a different mentality regarding the chances of success. “It drives me crazy when bands send out shit like ‘Vote for us!’” says Joe. “Everything’s a fuckin’ horserace these days you know?”That wasn’t the case when the Queers first popped onto the punk scene. The band’s earliest incarnation formed in 1982 in Portsmouth New Hampshire and released a few 7″s but The Queers didn’t release a their first proper full length Grow Up until 1990.
eKantipur.com – Nepal’s No.1 News Portal
Kantipur nline – Feb 19, 2007
And anyways it is too sincere for this mad interregnum. Right now we need an anthem that we can kick around and kick each other around with an anthem that expresses our hopes and dreams but also our mounting rages and building frustrations and our deepening mutual mistrust of each other and of our national leaders. Now those who have heard ‘We Don’t Get Fooled Again’ will know that the hard proto-punk music heavy on drums and synthesizers and pierced with rebel yells perfectly fits the ever-andoleet zeitgeist of our post-Jana-Andolan-two period. Its messagethat the very people who brought change soon start to block themalso fits perfectly with what is happening now: The change it had to comeWe knew it all alongWe were liberated from the foe that’s allAnd the world looks just the sameAnd history ain’t changed’Cause the banners they all flown in the last warTo me the song particularly speaks to New Nepali women whodespite forming the only clear majority in the countryremain left out of the debate about who will share power with high-caste ‘hilly’ men in the constituent assembly. Thirty-two deaths later our leaders have reluctantly acknowledged that Madeshi men can have proportional representation as can Janajati men. Some stray leaders even pay lip service about the inclusion of Dalit men and men of other ‘backward’ communities (whoever they be) though these groups have not taken to the streets. But women? Dead silence on the issue of the proportional representation of women.
Music Preview: Evan Dando puckers up to a punky Lemonheads tour
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Feb 19, 2007
ut of the blue I was writing these rock songs. And I was like ‘Well these don’t belong on a solo record. ‘ “He figures it may have been trading off vocals with Mudhoney singer Mark Arm on an MC5 reunion tour that brought him back to punk. But whatever the reason Dando still knows how to pull it off as evidenced on such spirited highlights as “Black Gown” and “Pittsburgh. Yes there is a song called “Pittsburgh” not that you would know that just from hearing it. “It was gonna be in the lyric.