Category: News

Leaving Normal: Pramoedya Ananta Toer 2

Leaving Normal: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

LATEST: from Sumit Mandal: Pramoedya passed away in his home in Jakarta on the morning of the 30th of April, 2006, at about 8:30 am. He was 81. The link to the detik.com report...

South Korea’s RhizomA Zine available On-line 0

South Korea’s RhizomA Zine available On-line

from: Nevin RhizomA #2 is out now! Interviews with: the Geeks Reanimator the Explode and R.A.M.B.O. Stay POSI!! Fest. DIY Stencil Guide and more… You can download it here: RhizomA #02 The ZIP file...

Blasting Concept – The Podcast! 1

Blasting Concept – The Podcast!

No. Not the old column I did yoinks ago but a new and very good “Grind, Death Metal, Thrash, Powerviolence, Black Metal, Punk, Hardcore and Noise” podcast from the States. note: The name “Blasting...

Police and Your Basic Rights Booklet Launched 3

Police and Your Basic Rights Booklet Launched

The Malaysian Bar Council launched a small red book yesterday, explaining “in simple language to the layman, his rights when stopped or detained by police.” According to the NST report today, the 31-page book...

Personal Hygiene is for Conformist Bastards! 0

Personal Hygiene is for Conformist Bastards!

Found a new favourite podcast site today and it’s called Personal Hygiene is for Conformist Bastards! At the moments shows on mp3s lined-up for you to download includes punk rock from Greek! Czech! Slovak!...

Australasian DIY Tour Circuit on frappr.com 1

Australasian DIY Tour Circuit on frappr.com

from: kabukiboy Check out this resource I’ve been setting up to help bands tour around the Australasia region. URL: frappr.com/australasiadiytourcircuit We’re still looking for helpers in Asia and any information that will assist bands...

Symphonic Blast Production: New Releases & News 3

Symphonic Blast Production: New Releases & News

from: KIA Hello to everyone!! We are coming again to give you some updates and get you good news just for all over of extreme music on this earth. Here are some of the...

1, 2, 3, 4! Calypso! 0

1, 2, 3, 4! Calypso!

I’ve heard a lot of The Ramones tributes of late; right from some really cool Spanish versions to the dozy lullaby for babies version of Sheena is a Punk Rocker. The best so far...

Leaving Normal: Swell Maps’ Nikki Sudden 4

Leaving Normal: Swell Maps’ Nikki Sudden

Heard this sad news from BigO just now, Swell Maps main man Nikki Sudden has died after playing a gig at the Knitting Factory, New York. His brother, Epic Soundstracks died in 1996. Both...