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• Spoon – Transference
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As one of the key upstarts to the California punk/hardcore scene, Jello Biafra emerged as the singer of the Dead Kennedy’s in the late ’70’s and hasn’t gone away since. Whether he’s singing, writing, acting, doing spoken word, or churning out records on his label, Alternative Tentacles, Jello has remained one of punk rock’s true pioneers for the last thirty years. Fresh off the heals of Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine’s newest album, Audacity of Hype, Mr. Biafra took the time to chat with Michael Dauphin.
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The recent death of author J.D. Salinger put increased attention on author Frank Portman, better known around here as Dr. Frank of The Mr. T Experience, due to the content of Portman’s 2006 novel King Dork. In Portman’s book the narrator hates “The Catcher in the Rye” and what he describes as the novel’s “Catcher Cult” of admirers. In a new editorial for the Huffington Post Portman explains his character’s position and his motivation in writing it:

Holden Caulfield, the icon, hovers over anything you write about teenagers whether your text specifically acknowledges it or not. My approach was to acknowledge the hell out of it and to play around with the well-established convention that everyone’s angsty, smart-ass teen narrator try as hard as he can to be mistaken for him. But I’m not some kind of anti-Salinger activist. I was just trying to be funny, honest.

The truth is, though, that there really is a Catcher Cult, and I’ve always found its persistence remarkable and a little puzzling. It goes beyond a simple appreciation of the book’s literary qualities, impressive though they may be. It is Holden himself, as a symbol, as a kind of fetish of adolescent authenticity, that seems to inspire such devotion. Desecrating this fetish can drive a certain sort of person wild with fury, which is kind of funny because it is, after all, supposed to be an icon of rebellion. Maybe it’s my punk rock background or my Bay Area upbringing that make me think that the thing to do with a monument is to try to smash it up, even if it happens to be a monument to smashing up monuments

You can find the full article at the Huffington Post.
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The new song from the Flobots features guest vocals from Tim McIlrath of Rise Against. The song is the first single from the alternative hip hop band’s upcoming album, Survival Story. The track is available for sale and for streaming in a 30 second segment.

You can do both via iTunes. A sample can also be found on their MySpace page.
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