I think for me it would be Yasiin Bey
I’ve never heard of Lowkey or Enter Shikari, you got any recs for them?
Peggy is amazing but Immortal Technique can be too preachy for me most of the time. Also any rapper that shoehorns “antidisestablishmentarianism” into a rhyme should be forced into retiring
Nice I’ll check those out asap.
He did it on his verse on RA The Rugged Man’s album from this year, on Who Do We Trust
Upvote mostly for Zounds, they don't get enough cred even among UK anarcho nerds. Today's Empire rules but otherwise I've never been able to get into Propagandhi musically, either too pop punk prior or too prog after. Lyrically they've always nailed it. Leftover Crack has been ruined by being a crusty and they have the cringiest fans, Stza is definitely a fuck too.
Oh you're absolutely correct about Leftover Crack. Haven't listened to them in at least a decade, but those Parenti samples on the Choking Victim lp and some shit off of Fuck World Trade pointed me in the correct direction.
Those late 90's/early 2000's fast core bands probably did more but no one ever wants to talk about Infest.
I'll totally talk Infest and Powerviolence etc! LET'S FUCKIN GO! My favorite shit is that Doomryderz grind. Plutocracy, Agents of Satan, No Le$$ etc. Love some Man is the Bastard and of course Crossed Out and No Comment are legends.
Also when I when I finally listened to some Parenti much later my mind was blown that the sample came from him. Leftover Crack and Choking victim do have some great jams and some good lyrics despite the massive cringe and the Epitaph Records.
WEST BAY COALITION! Stinkweed (RIP) is my guitar hero. I finally found a good quality image of the Snipin Pigz cover and am gonna do a screenprint.
Fuck yes, please make it known if you do a screenprint of that cover, I want one lol
I'll try to remember. It's gonna be shirt/backpatch size, I'll DM you about mailing one when I make em. We have a sick punk/leftist show/jam/recording/free food/free screenprinting/computer use printer scanner access space. My roomate has a bunch of screens and I groundscored a bunch of brand new shirts. We made some .Nema stuff recently (90s Montreal crust screamoviolence, check em out)
Whoa people outside of tucson know that dude? He's a sweetheart and has good politics but I don't actually dig his music, haha. I'm just too old for folk-punk lol
I was introduced to his music by my british friend, no idea where he got it from actually
Folk punk stuff is fairly big in the UK punk scene I guess so makes some sense if your friend was into punk stuff in general.
Hell ya! The best/rarest vinyl I have in my collection is his split with Ceschi - https://www.discogs.com/Ceschi-Pat-The-Bunny-Split/release/8125189
no one has said Noname yet, who was bullied into becoming a leftist.
I also think Andrew Bird is at least a succdem, and The Beths are well-intentioned, likely succdem/libs who actively supported BLM throughout the pandemic.
Phil Ochs
He was a folk singer in the 60s and 70s. He was radicalized by the '68 Democratic National Convention. His friends were murdered by the Pinochet regime. He was paranoid because he believed he was under the surveillance of the FBI. The FBI had a 500 page file on him.
Panopticon. The US black metal scene was full of nazis pretty much from the start, and then Panopticon came along and now you see more RABM than NSBM. I'd love them for that even if their music wasn't great too.
Fuck yeah, that's my boy!!! He makes good fucking beer too, if you like beer and you're ever near Minneapolis or Louisville (they only distribute locally and in KY), check out for Hammerheart brewing co. Like, I know fuck all about fancy beer and primarily drink high life or mickeys but his stuff is delicious and gets you real fucked up lol
Also Kentucky is a hell of an album. I love all his Panopticon stuff but that one gets me in the gut.
I like a lot of punk and political rap so, Propagandhi definitely had a lot of effect on my politics, encouraged me to look a lot of things up, helps that there music style changed as my preferences did as well.
But for favourite? fuck it im gonna say U. Utah Phillips, american folk musician, basically an anarcist hobo from way before gutter punks became a thing, the music isn't even that complex and his voice is just ok but the songs are great, lots of union songs and working class life songs.
He was also a great story teller, just an absolute great listen, theres nearly 100 hours of recording he did called loafers glory, story telling with songs occasionaly. I like listening to it when im driving, its really just nice and comforting in a way, hes like an old rad grandad telling you about his life and cool shit.
Nausea is probably the only one with multiple songs in my playlist that I consider purely leftist.
If you want more crust recommendations let me know. I've spent the last 15 years in the field. Nausea is the tip of a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge iceberg. Check out Deviated Instinct, Antisect, Axegrinder, Amebix, Discharge, Doom, Icons of Filth and Extreme Noise Terror for the OGs. Im an encyclopedia of punk music.
I love crust, and I love the fact that you included the sentence "I've spent the last 15 years in the field."
All my denim is shiny, my liver needs a union and my stud count is in the hundreds.
I've pretty much heard all of those bands. I'm more into street punk hardcore, beat down etc. I never really got into crust but if you can find a band that can really get me going I'm all ears.
Check out Skaven if you haven't. Also Lachrymose which is most of Skaven with Dino from Dystopia on vocals. They're both amazing.
For streetpunk related stuff, do you like any noisier stuff or dbeat? How bout UK82 stuff? I could work with that. Swankys, Gai, Confuse, State Children for the original japanese noise boys. UK82 the classics are obviously Disorder and Chaos UK but check out External Menace, The Underdogs, The Fits for early catchy stuff...Sedition, AOA and Civilised Society for later thrashy stuff. Dbeat if you get you get, if ya don't ya don't. If you like Zounds there's a good amount of more out there 80s UK Anarcho stuff, Flowers in the Dustbin, Psycho Faction, Omega Tribe, The Mob(my favorite band). There's a whole bunch more I can get into if I think of them. As far as crust goes, if you don't like any of those guys, it's probably just not for you.
Thanks for the suggestion I'll give them a listen. Yeah I do like uk82 and oi! (The non-chud kind of course). Crust is ok it's just I've have a few bands that I might pick out a song or two from their catalog that I really like compared to other genres where I have a lot of faves in different albums.
Fun fact1 Hugh Laurie very briefly played bass for External Menace.
Boots Riley with his band The Coup is pretty based.
String Bo String Duo had some pretty rippin' songs, but They split up and I heard accusations about one of the guys that weren't too good. Music is fire though.
Spirit of the West was a Canadian fixture, but their lead singer died of early onset Alzheimer's a few years back.
Pete Seeger is an all-time classic. Solidarity forever is an anthem.
I've heard he's got some weird takes politically, don't actually know if he's a leftist now that I think about it, but immortal technique has some good tracks (been listening to Third World a lot).
He's probably a lib or something, don't actually know, but Julian Casablancas has put out a few anti capitalist bangers imo. Was just listening to Pyramid of Bones. Also Lead a horse to water, or something).
Pete Seeger. Also ChumbaWamba because of the folk album they did once.
