One Night Stand in North Dakota are an acoustic two-piece outfit made up of Daniel Ellis and Nathan Griffin from County Durham, and part of a thriving North-East scene, that is eagerly awaiting discovery.

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Simply put this is a thing of beauty. Three songs clocking in at just over an hour; an entire movement of crust punk from Brighton’s Fall of Efrafa. On the unlikely, and unhappy, chance you don’t know who Fall of Efrafa are they formed in 2005

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Six years after the seismic “Days of War, Nights of Love” was first published, Crimethinc are back with a third book, longer, deeper, higher and heavier. “Expect Resistance” is a collection of previous texts (most notably from “Harbinger”) – reedited, rearranged and expanded with great care and attention to detail – interwoven with personal accounts from the living, breathing world of radical political activists.

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I first saw Seth Tobocman’s work at the Babel Comics Festival in Athens, where he had drawn a huge anti-war mural together with some other of the World War Three Illustrated crew. Much of his work is a bit of a legend for us Europeans, not least because his artwork – not least his book ‘War in the Neighbourhood’ – is so hard to find on this side of the Atlantic!

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Five cheeky lads from Liverpool set out to emulate the finest bands of the melodic hardcore punk genre with this debut album. Okay, so it might pinch all the best bits of bands like Strike Anywhere, Propagandhi and Rise Against, but seeing as those

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All artwork by Freya Harrison – www.freyaillustration.co.uk
“Rebel Girl, Rebel Girl, Rebel Girl you are the queen of my world” sang Bikini Kill to their eager following, each yearning, like me, to be their very own Rebel Girl. Unhappy with the status quo a small army of like-minded grrrls set about rebelling against a male dominated [...]

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The weather outside may be grey but with Vic Ruggiero’s ‘Something in my Blind Spot’ you can almost feel the rays on your skin. Ruggiero has created an album of uplifting summer time tunes that will take you away to hot nights of love and rage in the 1960’s.
Ruggiero sings about life, love, and politics [...]

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This is a tale of how our counterculture is rapidly finding its way to the sales counter, and of how our desire to rebel has caught the attention of marketing mavens keen to co-opt our tactics. After exploring some examples of corporate enterprises striving to offer dissenters ‘new clothes,’

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The European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) is calling for a day of action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses. On 11 October 2008, under the title “Freedom not fear 2008” people in a number of European cities are organising protests against this encroachment of people’s individual liberties.

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Presented here are ten tracks from one of Bristol’s finest musical politicos. Blizzard’s cultural mash of rap/folk/politics is like nothing you have heard. Stripped down beats serve as a backdrop for a half sung, half spoken rap style that is both honest and engaging. Blizzard’s live show is a lo-fi, one-man band affair with a [...]

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