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Ryan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:29:14 +0000

Hey everybody who uses this site you may have noticed a lack in updates on gr screamer. We have began meetings to make this site better and have more regular updates. The meetings really have not had great success. So at this time I am stepping down from updating this site. I have many things going on in my life that I need to give my attention to. So do any of you punkers and thrashers want to take on this site and make it awesome? I would love to see it continue, but it’s time to pass it on. Until then please don’t send anything because it will not be updated until somebody takes it over.

CHECK IT OUT!

Ryan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:38:28 +0000

COLUMNS ARE FINALLY UP!

Ryan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:52:04 +0000

Hey everybody the site is going to going through some changes and has been lacking in the updating department. But we got some great columns this month so read on. Also a killer show next month at new space in GR.

Also new tapes out by a couple local rippers. If you like fast as fuck hardcore check this out! DSS demo tape and SHATTERED BADGE demo 4 bucks each ppd send to

PO BOX 1148 GRAND RAPIDS MI 49501

BOYCOTT IT!

Ryan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:15:04 +0000

Without the boycott then what is punk and hardcore? This entire movement was started as a boycott against religion,bullshit politicians, teachers, club owners and all the other crap in this world. It’s a movement for angry people with a refusal to settle for just anything. The boycott is the core of all of this, and without it’s not punk or hardcore it’s just fucking music, and I for one hate fucking music. And this is why something as simple as all ages shows is such a huge issue.
Over the years punk and hardcore has gotten older there for it’s fans has aged along with it. Throughout the growth of punk the laws has also grown and changed throughout history. When i started going to shows most of the shows where all ages and it was very odd if they were not. Then they became 16+ and I was like this is strange. Then years later the norm was 18+ and now 21+. Why is this? Well it’s simple they are perfected the alcohol industry making a perfect profit making machine. A group of 16 year olds at a bar show does the bar no good so why have them around? Any club show needs to be profitable for the bar and the bands. The laws in the past just where to lax and took extra security so that means extra cost. Now in 2012 having most clubs and bars be just 21+ makes sense for them. They can hit profit margins, and bring the crowds they need to make good profitable shows. It’s truly a good business model. Having clubs do 21+ shows is the right thing to do. Any attempt to do a non ages at a club or a bar is a bad business design for them. The alcohol industry is fine oiled machine that took many many years to perfect and to take over the world. It rules all and triumphs anything in it’s past. It started with probation when they stole the beer from the small people and made it big business from that they have made millions. It’s a perfect model, and makes many people a lot of money. This is a very clear cut model of why we have non all ages shows and all ages shows. The bottom line is if alcohol sales if they are great the show is great.
So all in all what’s this have to with punk, and why does this even matter? The truth is it doesn’t a show that is not all ages has nothing to do with the punk movement. The punk movement is about going for it, and making things happen. It’s not about showing a fucking ID. I don’t even have an ID most of the time. I started a business with no ID. People can claim to have punk shows at these non all ages spaces, but come on it’s simply a fucking joke. A bunch of 30 somethings acting like they are 16 again within the confines of the bar. It makes no sense and never will. This column could be sixty five pages long but whats the point non all ages shows are just rock shows thats it, and rock shows fucking suck. Punks needs a tougher skin when it comes to this and not be happy with the whatever spaces come your way.
For me punk has always been about the boycott the basic art of standing up and saying no I don’t support that. For first time I live in a city of complete complacency. I feel we don’t acknowledge are basic privileges we have each day. I witness very little progressive talk at least in the circles I find myself sometimes. I see very little attempt to step out of or privilege. Agism does exist and it’s one privilege we very rarely acknowledge. I heard an older person say to a 20 year old the other day “Don’t worry you will be 21 soon then live will get fun” thats bullshit it’s that simple!.
On an end note this is my last column for a long time on this site. I am also not going to have any involvement with the site for awhile. I feel it’s time to hand it down and step back. This site has some awesome people doing awesome things. I also 100% support the new rules of site as far as only promoting non club all ages shows. I want to see this site grow and stay fucking awesome. My life in a good way is consumed by my business BarterTown diner. It’s an attempt to have the first Worker co-op diner in Michigan. Another way to take what you learned from punk and place into the rest of your life. Punk rules just go for it fuck anybody you says you can’t, and fuck anybody who asks you for your ID. Fuck ID’S!

TOMORROW NIGHT!

Ryan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:51:13 +0000

DON’T MISS THIS!

CHANGES ON THIS SITE!

Ryan — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:42:59 +0000

Just had the first GR screamer meeting tonight and it was awesome! Some changes will be happening to this site. One being that we will only be promoting all ages non bar or club shows. This site is for the underground punk and hardcore community to have a voice so we want to focus on that. This was a collective decision. We hope you enjoy the changes in the next couple weeks, and please give us feedback as it moves forward. Until then check out this awesome band OUTLOOK playing GR on April 27th with XTRA VOMIT,DSS and MADONNA this will be a fucking ripper!

www.oursound.net/outlook

Then check out this sipping fest happening in Miami on July 6th. Some local kids are talking about going let’s make it happen!

THIS SITE!

Ryan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:51:15 +0000

I have been so fucking busy as of late. As most of you may know I am part of the BarterTown collective, and head chef at BarterTown. I love it and it’s my life these days. I also love punk and am trying to keep my two bands going as well. So this site has suffered to say the least. I think this site is so important to the community of punk and hardcore. So this Sunday at BarterTown we will have the first open meeting about the future of this site. 8pm BarterTown Diner 6 Jefferson street S.E. in Grand Rapids. Please email this site if you have any concerns. I really want to make this site work so come out if you can. I promise coffee and maybe left over cupcakes! Until then onto rad shows and awesome tunes!

TOMORROW NIGHT THE FUCKING SPITS!

THEN MUSKEGON RIPS!

GO!

TOMORROW NIGHT!

Ryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:49:17 +0000

This show will fucking rule so put it on your calendar!

UNTIL THEN we have tomorrow at the Pyramid Scheme THE STATE and the return of ATTENTION SPAN. The guys from 616 zine and myself have teamed up to create a killer show for sure! Come out and have fun no fighting no bullshit just a positive mental attitude!

ALL AGES WELCOME!

TONIGHT FRI JAN 27 – @ THE THUNDERDOME – GRIND NOISE ASSAULT

Ryan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:40:00 +0000

~!!!RoT n’ RoLL!!!~

GRIND NOISE ASSAULT EDITION

An evening of puny Earth realm shattering jamz from the heaviest of the heavy and the strangest of the strange. Blistering electronics, blast beats, tortured vocals, estranged guitars, broken tape decks and odd loops collide. Soundtrack to the end times. Or new beginnings? (Not that crappy GR breakfast chain either) ONE NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Friday, January 27th, 2012

@ The Thunderdome

10:00 PM

$5\Donation = Support

THE OILY MENACE = WHARE TO BEGIN!? One of my favorite bands – with some of my most favorite dudes. Have you ever seen that part of Pet Sematary where the little kid walks into a semi truck? Ever wonder what that would sound\feel like? – well good – because it’s this band. Take one part ferocious OG Napalm Death\Heresy and combine it with new school speed and serious riffage along with some covers of folk songs and some of the raddest things to say about Kale and neighborly love and it becomes the perfect oily recipe ♥ Download their demo’s via their blog NOW and buy their three-way split with Cloud Rat and Wolbachia @ the show or via the amazing ifbrecords.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbtLBLcqaQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnf7goQ4wc

http://theoilymenace.13bels.net/

COMPROMISED POSITION = From the ashes of the genre defying, heart wrenching power electronics project Black Bloc (R.I.P.), comes a completely different beast. Confrontational, face crushing electronics unlike any before or after. Brutal vocals and unbelievably heavy focused throbs. First time playing Michigan. Support. For fans of Survival Unit, Disgust, Nyodene D, the apocalypse, end of human civilization..etc.

http://www.facebook.com/compromisedposition?v=info&sk=info

SICK LLAMA = Nothing’s clean. Everything’s wrong. Totally uncomfortable. Total decay. The soundtrack of an age old half flooded Michigan basement rat party. That smell of when you first open Grandma’s untouched pre-civil war era cellar. Ancient, prehistoric broken guitars, modified organs and badly wired tape decks malfunction into a lonely, enveloping blanket of filth. Support Fag Tapes. Get weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT6nzOXEYxI&feature=related

http://fagtapes.blogspot.com/

THE BODY AND THE WHIP (!!!FIRST SHOW!!!) = Rumored only to be painful, wretched power electronics in the purest form. Unknown sounds and vocals. Said to be a’la Whitehouse, NON etc. Classical audio violence destruction. DO NOT MISS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGNKgah948s

FUCKED UP SHOWS FOR FUCKED UP PEOPLE!

Ryan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:27:30 +0000