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SPECIAL FIRST ISSUE COACHELLA 2010 RACKET’S PICKS, REUNIONS, & FESTIVAL TIPS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW STRIKE ANYWHERE PLUS ADVENTURE TIME SHITTY BEER E-READERS SPRINGRACKET MAGAZINE 20101 2 RACKET MAGAZINE RACKET MAGAZINE 3 LETTER FROM THE CONTENTS THE EMPEROR SPRING 2010 Hello there! FEATURES COACHELLA 07 KIDS CAN EAT A BAG OF DICKS 30 FESTIVAL DO’S AND DONT’S My name’s The Emperor, and I’m supposed to welcome you to Racket but as I’m a terrible host, just RacketJeff discusses A Wilhelm Scream’s return. How to avoid chaffing, sunburns help yourself, look around, poke your nose into our closets and go through our underwear drawers. and blisters Hopefully you’re enticed rather than terrified. 16 BEST OF THE WORST Still here? Good. I wanted to get rid of the prudes, and hopefully they’re gone so now we can cut the The least shitty of shitty beers 33 REUNITED AND IT FEELS shit and get down to business. Racket business. For five years now we have been sucking up valuable SO GOOD space on the Internet to make room for our own brand of irreverent artist interviews and sometimes 20 TOP 10 SOLO ARTISTS Well, well, look who’s back deplorable journalistic integrity. If you’ve ever wanted to hear political punks tell an offensive joke or Notice how none of these a TV personality threaten the writer, you’ve come to the right place. are the bass players? 34 WHO TO WATCH Racket’s writers pick their favs to watch We’re not the next big thing in media, so don’t go getting your hopes up, but we are hear to try to 23 make with the funny. Welcome to Racket, the lifestyle magazine for those with no life. COMICS 42 THEN & NOW -Jonathan “The Emperor” Yost 24 GLOBAL INHERTIANCE These Coachella vets are still going strong Being “green” doesn’t have to be tedious RACKET MAGAZINE 26 STRIKE ANYWHERE Too punk for their own good 40 THE FAT OF THE LAND STAFF How is someone so lazy so successful? Jonathan Yost – Emperor-In Chief Caitlin Elgin – Managing Editor CONTRIBUTING WRITERS REVIEWS Erik Garcia, Kateri Lirio, Laura Gaddy, Gail Navarro, Luke Toney, Madison Heying, Jack Winn, Jeff Curtis 08 MUSIC DESIGN TEAM Van K. Ho, Tom Lu, Marc Marquez, Karen Bardsley 10 E-READERS COVERT ART Christine Curry 11 SYNTHS EVENTS Veronica Amador, Karlo Arenas 12 MOVIES & TV SPECIAL THANKS Adam Amar, Brandon Anderson, Roya Butler, Matt 15 BOOKS Corbett, Casey Curry, Christine Curry, Wendy Day, Adam Galay, Abraham Gastelum, Jordan Golladay, Ryan Greer, Michael Gunther, Aaron Hale, Shannon Haslinger, Rick Hermansen, Damara Kautz, Brandon Kelly, Anastasia Krotova, Sean Lear, Cortney Long , Micah Mann, Patrick Mason, Wesley Miller, Akiko Moritake, Andrew Norcross, Akira Peck, Sean Pullin, INTERVIEW WITH Jenn Ryan, Julie Trieu, Kristen Waldeck, Sarah Why, Kim 26 Worpek, Rex Worth and anyone else who has made STRIKE ANYWHERE these last 5 years possible. CONTACT Racket Magazine 626 Cypress Circle Redlands, CA 92373 [email protected] 4 RACKET MAGAZINE RACKET MAGAZINE 5 THE KIDS CAN EAT A BAG OF DICKS… A WILHELM SCREAM FEEDS THE MASSES WITH RIGHTEOUS JAMS. “HOLY SHIT!” Those were the words that came out and turned it up 20 notches. “Killing It,” “The Kids of my mouth the very first time I saw A WILHELM Can Eat A Bag Of Dicks,” and “Me Vs. Morrissey In SCREAM live. This was also the very first time I had The Pretentiousness Contest (The Ladder Match)” heard them period. The loud swirling dual guitar were great songs to sing along to, but also riffage coming from the stage, along with Nuno aggressive and powerful as well. After the release Pereira’s vocals gave my ears an immediate music of their final Nitro releaseCareer Suicide, they were boner. The energy filled the small room and ignited in search of a new label. mass hysteria over the crowd. Even when half the band had walking pneumonia, they put on a show Upstart label Paper + Plastick (founded by Vinnie that would most bands out there to shame. Fiorello of Less Than Jake) would find themselves as the new home for the band, and soon release Mute Print (the band’s first Nitro release) was a the self titled five-song EP. Now there are many staple in my record collection, and for many of my different ways to listen to a record, and I like to try friends as well. Songs like “The Rip” and “Anchor every single one of them. To fully experience an End” were so energetic, yet complex. Trevor Reilly album, you must hear it sober, drunk, high, and really knows how to shred on his axe, and write even both. I tried all these with this album, and I will some sweet tunes as well. Their second Nitro say that this band can never do wrong. Jeff Curtis release, Ruiner took what they started in Mute Print 6 RACKET MAGAZINE RACKET MAGAZINE 7 MUSIC melodies around ethereal harmonies and BLACK ROBOT JESSE MALIN MURDER BY DEATH raging rhythms. Frontman Angus Andrew leads SELF-TITLED LOVE IT TO LIFE GOOD MORNING, the trio (Aaron Hemphill, synth/guitars and Rocket Science Side One Dummy MAGPIE Julian Gross, percussion) through the madness. Ventures Vagrant Records While I am rocking this like nobody’s business, I know that if you thought At The Drive In was • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • too chaotic, stay the fuck away from this, you 2/10 7/10 9/10 couldn’t handle it. Jonathan Yost Man, Adam Turla has got to be one of the manliest With an anime-inspired little CGI mascot- Malin is hip enough to be ahead of the game a bit... men in music today. Two weeks of camping out in THIS MOMENT IN looking fella on the cover, I was expecting fronting a hardcore band as a teen during the ‘80s, the Appalachian Mountains and he comes back BLACK HISTORY some form of electronica, but what I got when it wasn’t really profitable to do so, but it was with most of Good Morning, Magpie, an album PUBLIC SQUARE was, well, crap. Pure crap. I think someone definitely trendy within the right social set…like in filled with tales of love, darkness and…whiskey. Smog Veil Records didn’t want to let go of the drug-laden late the underground scene of NYC, where Malin calls This is the work of a goddamned American man, 80’s Sunset Strip scene. That someone, well, home. Then, surprise, surprise, during the ‘90s he delivered with bravado and soul. Hottie bandmate • • • • • • • • • • • someones, are Jonathan “JB” Brightman fronts the wishy-washy punk outfit D Generation. D Sarah Balliet’s haunting cello work doesn’t hurt. 11/10 (clever nickname, duder) and front man Generation were written off as copycats of Johnny The rhythm section is no less integral, with Dagan Huck Johns. With song titles like “Badass,” Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but to their Thogerson’s drumming ensuring that every beat “Cocaine,” and “Girls Kissing Girls,” I have no credit, seriously, who else was “ripping off” Johnny counts and Matt Armstrong’s bass as dedicated to I am ashamed I haven’t previously heard of doubt that my dad would LOVE this record. Thunders in the ‘90s? Well, no one, really. Not until the cause. Then again, my dad also referred to White the late ‘90s at least, which is when D Generation these guys. They’ve been around for nearly a decade now. They are from Cleveland, a Snake as the “gods of metal.” Jonathan Yost called it quits. If anything, that puts the band years The only problem I have with this album is trying mere two hours north of here. They made their ahead of the curve. to pick a favorite song. One day it will be “As Long name, it appears, in the scene surrounding As There Is Whiskey In The World,” a great jam the Beachland Ballroom, a place with which I Sure, there was the whole Crypt/Gearhead/Man’s dedicated to my favorite form of liquid courage. am all too familiar. Members have ties to the DANGERMAKER Ruin/etc. scene throughout the ‘90s, but while it’s Then there’s “You Don’t Miss Twice,” another Bassholes and Cheater Slicks, Columbus bands DANGERMAKER unlikely any of those associated acts would deny song made of manliness, decreeing the dangers both (hey, we adopted the Slicks), whom I Unsigned the impact of the Heartbreakers, few of them of shaving with a knife. Fucking. Manly. “The Day” have seen countless times since the late ‘90s. were getting compared to the band. So while it has one of my favorite intros with a solid drumbeat Ashamed. • • • • • • • • • • doesn’t particularly mean much, especially since courtesy of Thogerson, creepy keys by way of 8/10 D Generation wasn’t very good, they were sort of Balliet and the passion of Turla’s voice rivaling a Alas, I never leave my house and spend all my in a league of their own. Plus, they got signed to Baptist preacher. In a man’s world being invaded time sitting in the dark doing nothing until I a major, so they must have had something going by lame skinny jeans and fucking flatirons, it’s good notice I can’t see anything and finally turn on a on, right? to see someone who is unequivocally all-American. light. So really, it should come as no surprise With any good music, the immediacy of the This album is Malin’s fourth proper solo effort, Jonathan Yost that they eluded me for so long.