I’m not the type to yell “sellout!” when a band signs to a major label. Sometimes it’s a good step for them. I might blink once or twice when it’s a band like Anti-Flag, who’ve made their reputation cursing big business and the government, but hey, whatever. I will, however, be the first one to […]
Mellowdrone – Going Against The Grain
Jonathan Bates seemed to know he would get to this point at some point. He just had to keep his personal ethics in tact, stay true to himself and keep moving forward. As the lead singer/songwriter/guitarist for his group Mellowdrone, in 2003 Bates released two EPs in a very DIY fashion, including A Demonstration of […]
Sir! No Sir! (David Zeiger)
SIR! NO SIR! (David Zeiger) SIR! NO SIR! unearths the GI movement of the Vietnam War, perhaps the most creative and global activist movement of 1960’s America. This documentary tells the story of the thousands of veterans and active duty military personnel that protested the very war in which they fought and haunts us with […]