True Movement Association
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Southern Sound Clash Records
Jason Lee Vaughn
I was born and raised here, and I’ve been going to shows since the mid-‘80s. I only went to one show at the Metroplex. I was more of a Masquerade guy, right when it first was opened. I saw Fugazi play their first show there. I was also around for the Midtown Music Hall, the Point, and places like that.
Eric Centore
Punk is making a comeback because of how the world has become. Police brutality is at an all-time high, mainly because people are able to expose it through social media. More people are aware of corporate greed, and all that corruption in the state, and it’s drawing more people to punk.
Laremy Wade
Active involvement in the Atlanta underground independent music scene for over 20 years now and financial technology for a decade. Various instruments used from bass to chainsaw. Recently, more involvement with community efforts such as Southern Soundclash Records and No Man's Land in the West End of Atlanta.
It’s easy to associate noise-punk trio Blue Tower with Atlanta’s West End. The band takes its name from the familiar landmark looming over the Metropolitan Lofts complex. For bassist Laremy Wade, it’s an ideal neighborhood for DIY musicians. “With the industrial decay, it’s kind of like the purest form of Terminus City." Wade says "Plus there’s a history of punk that’s been here since the ’80s that’s still circulating in the sinews of this place. There’s a lot that can go on here for pioneering people.Blue Tower was born in 2013,when Eric Centore’s lightning-fast drumming inspired singer and guitarist Jason Lee Vaughan to flesh
Blue Tower's Urban frontier
Industrious trio crafts lightning fast punk music
Taang! Records was born in Boston in 1984. Curtis Casella founded the label in the footsteps of Washington, D.C.'s Dischord Records and Los Angeles' SST — cultural institutions serving the local punk and hardcore communities — and to represent Boston's explosive, early '80s music scene. The name is an anagram for "Teen Agers Are No Good!" an allusion to the volatile riots breaking out during shows at the time. Taang! was quickly branded a stronghold for punk, hardcore, oi, and ska music.But over the years Casella fostered a singularly progressive environment, releasing albums by staple punk and hardcore acts the Dickies, Gang Green, and Dropkick Murphys alongside more
Orlando Weekly
Next to the visual spectacle of Rotten Stitches, fellow Atlantans Blue Tower are total Plain Janes. But after a good listen, the torch and blister of their sound ended up being the real star of the night.enlargeAlthough they, too, are a hardcore band, this lean, mean trio kick out a raw brand of punk rock that’s less strict to traditional tribal lines. While the Stitches are 100 percent punk, the animal heart of rock & roll isn’t just more prominent in Blue Tower, it’s in full inferno. Even though they rush headlong with total and unrelenting velocity, they’re still wild enough to make room for some carnal guitar burnouts. No fashion, no bullshit, just pure, searing rock truth – that’s Blue Tower
The Heard
Rotten Stitches and Blue Tower bring Atlanta punk heat to Uncle Lou's
Creative Loafing
and was an active participant during the early, heady days of Eyedrum Art Gallery and the formation of Deerhunter. Over the years, he has pursued a wide variety of musical projects from the noise duo How to Kick Yourself to the free improv stylings of When I Get Five to the black metal experimentation of Blood of Gingu, among many others. These days you ca
When we talk about the future of Atlanta, we often talk about the intersection of commerce and art and the need for our creative classes — artists,designers, coders, developers, et al — to collaborate and create a vision for out city’s cultural and technological advancement. Viewed in that light, we can, in a very real sense, look to someone like Laremy Wade as a forerunner to or potential embodiment of that future.A musician first and foremost, Wade has deep historical ties to Atlanta music. At age 15, he was a critical voice in the then burgeoning experimental and avant noise scene,
Creative Loafing
Rotten Stitches are a strand of street punk that veers more toward hardcore than the sounds of the pub. They’re more G.B.H. than Sham 69, and they’re especially devout to both the ethos and the aesthetic. Coming on with a bonanza of studs, bullet belts, hair color and anti-establishment politics, it’s probably to the point of stereotype. But it was loud, fast and requisitely pissed enough to get the skinheads moving.
Orlando Weekly
"Rotten Stiches is a punk band from Atlanta Georgia. When Rebellion Pitt went down to see their show we picked up a copy of Crisis Control. This album is loud and fast and gets your adrenalin pumping. With intense lyrics to match the insane vocals and fast music it is the best soundtrack to an angry life.
