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RIP THIS PAGE OUT WHO WE ARE... Razorcake exists because of you. Whether you contributed If you wish to donate through the mail, any content that was printed in this issue, placed an ad, or are a reader: without your involvement, this magazine would not exist. We are a please rip this page out and send it to: community that defi es geographical boundaries or easy answers. Much Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc. of what you will fi nd here is open to interpretation, and that’s how we PO Box 42129 like it. Los Angeles, CA 90042 In mainstream culture the bottom line is profi t. In DIY punk the NAME: bottom line is a personal decision. We operate in an economy of favors amongst ethical, life-long enthusiasts. And we’re fucking serious about it. Profi tless and proud. ADDRESS: Th ere’s nothing more laughable than the general public’s perception of punk. Endlessly misrepresented and misunderstood. Exploited and patronized. Let the squares worry about “fi tting in.” We know who we are. 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More Corndog than Corndog I understand the impulse—something is so outrageous or cool than scrap booking!” “That’s more reggae than reggae!” “That’s more or powerful that people exclaim, “That’s more punk than punk.” It shoes than shoes!” “That’s more jazz than jazz!” “That’s more corndog happens all the time in the press releases that accompany records than corndog!” “That’s more hip hop than hip hop!” It doesn’t work. that get sent to us for review. I expect clueless dildos and mainstream The reason punk regularly gets evoked is that it’s still inherently ideologues to say it. It’s a cliché. It sounds cool. It marginalizes powerful. It’s a benchmark. It exists if you or I don’t believe in it, listen punk’s power and patronizes it, while making the commentator to it, or live it. Punk sells or doesn’t sell and continues to survive and sound edgy™. Easy enough to ignore. Lazy code words. Believe thrive. Counter to what many of its once-most vocal supporters—many me, I understand backhanded compliments. who have cashed in their chips, yet are collecting punk unemployment I don’t want to surprise anyone, so let’s be clear. Razorcake benefits—are saying that it’s all been done before and it’s dead, punk’s is a DIY punk zine. It’s deliberate. Those words actually mean just fine. It’s the right amount of healthy and diseased. Awesome and something. It’s not a tagline for product. We actively push away awful. Brilliant and stupid. Petty and transcendent. Truly global and major corporations from being in our print and web pages by hyper-localized. Obvious and still secret. Young and old. Nostalgic and not covering their cultural harvestings of viable subcultures or forward-pointing. Drunk and sober. accepting their money for advertisements. I think that looking at Here’s where I’m chafed. There is so much fantastic DIY punk out our relationship—you and me—as simply producer and consumer is there that is still marginalized and overlooked at the expense of “more faulty and fucked up. There’s a huge chasm between sustainability punk than punk.” Razorcake’s coverage is deep. It is wide. And we and opulence, between being intentionally bad capitalists and barely scratch the surface. If it were up to me, everyone would listen douchey entrepreneurs in punk clothing. to the new Chantey Hook, Future Virgins, and Radioactivity records I believe in a big punk umbrella, of punks interacting with while reading this. Complex, driven, powerful. Some hopeful, crazy- the world-at-large. Look at our “One Punk’s Guide to…” series. great punk. That’s what I celebrate. Silent films, Otis Redding, science fiction, soccer, poetry, vinyl So, let’s make a pact. records—all seen through DIY punks’ lenses. I’m not saying Otis Don’t waste your time. If you’ve given up on punk, move along and Redding was a punk. That’d be stupid. I’m saying that there’s an go get “more techno than techno” or “more sweater vest than sweater exchange of ideas, a Venn diagram. There’s something to learn vest” or whatever. Just, please, don’t waste my time lazily swatting at from interwoven strands of culture, and we’re coming from a the very thing that I cherish and value… because there’s only one thing decidedly DIY punk perspective. Why? Because that’s how we “that’s more punk than punk.” self-identify. It’s who we are. It’s this thing called punk. Let’s flip flop the saying for a second to see how fucking stupid “more punk than punk” sounds to me. “That’s more scrap booking –Todd Taylor Razorcake Cover design by Patrick Lillard, PO Box 42129, LA, CA 90042 plillard.com, from photos by Ryan Razorcake/ Gorsky, Inc. Board of Directors: Todd Taylor, Sean Carswell, Daryl Gussin, razorcake.org Maddox and Paul Silver. 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You think you know about such things until French Exit invert it into an interview that was basically a laugh track thanks to Garrett Your dad better draw Barnwell, El Diablo, Paul Silver, and Ian Jones for the interview, photos, and you a funny birthday transcription; There is a little radioactive man on every spread in the interview. card every year It’s my little “Where’s Waldo?” for this issue thanks to Paul Silver, El Diablo, and Ryan Maddox for their Radioactivity photos; The S.E. Hinton of power pop thanks until you're out of the to Scott Bass, Jason Ross, Jack Callaghan, Rachel Gouk, Ron Rudy, and Lauren house... or he's fi red. Measure for the M.O.T.O. interview, photos, and layout. Congratulations #81’s rotation of music, zines, books, and video reviewers—revmats from overfl owing review tubs: Garrett Barnwell, Genevieve Armstrong, Jackie Rusted, Crystal and Bill. 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