Bands Rock Against Bush - Concerts and tours to raise awareness about 2004 election

Rolling Stone ^ | (September 23, 2003) | ANDREW DANSBY

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Bands Rock Against Bush

Concerts and tours to raise awareness about 2004 election

Sonic Youth, the Donnas, the Liars, the Locust and Erase Errata are among the groups who have pledged their support for Bands Against Bush, a self-explanatory new artistic collective dedicated to lending its support to the "struggle against a world of perpetual fear and violence bolstered by the Bush administration." BAB has set up more than twenty regional chapters in the U.S. and abroad, with a directory of groups willing to participate in various events to raise voter awareness. Among the events planned is an October 11th international day of action, with concerts planned for New York City; Olympia, Washington; Seattle; Los Angeles; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Oregon; Paris, France; and Dublin, Ireland. The day of action will be preceded by a Rock Against Reagan Memorial show on October 9th.

On the recording front, Green Day, NOFX, Good Charlotte and others will contribute songs to Rock Against Bush, a compilation to raise political awareness prior to next year's presidential election. The set is due next year and will be augmented by a tour organized by NOFX frontman Fat Mike.

And Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello is planning to hit the road with fellow politically minded musicians Billy Bragg and Steve Earle on the Tell Us the Truth Tour this fall. The jaunt is being timed to coincide with campaigning for the 2004 election.

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This reported by the Magazine Publisher Against Bush.

[Diverdogz]

Never heard of any of these bands. I bet their fans don't vote anyway.

[Moby Grape]

How fitting that one of the bands listed is "The Liars"....(most have been named in honor of Bill and Hillary).....this band should be booked for DNC fund raisers.

[cmsgop]

Oh Brother..........LMAO!!!!!!!

[ilgipper]

Paris, France - a tour stop. ha ha

[Windcatcher]

I've heard of Sonic Youth and Green Day...if it's any consolation, most of their fans are probably Dems already.

[Pukin Dog]

Morello is the former guitarist from Rage Against the Machine. A band so radical, they fought amonst themselves to determine which was the better communinst.

Move on, nothing more to see here.....

[Moby Grape]

Most of their fans would go to vote against Bush and push the wrong lever....our side would get at least half the votes..."the stoned effect".

[weegee]

I found that they have a website

It looks like more agitprop from the Anarchists with a capital A.

Their mission statement says that they are an international group. What about that ban on foreign contributions in election? Oh, that's right, Anarchists don't obey laws because they oppose our constitutional form of government...

Bands Against Bush Mission Statement

Bands Against Bush is an international movement which uses music and art and the support systems of these activities for protest and political involvement. We oppose the Bush administration and its domestic and foreign policies.

Our goals include encouraging debate and dialogue in a climate that is becoming increasingly hostile to dissent. We will use the resources we have cultivated as artists to share information, inspiration, and ideas. These include fanzines, bands, venues, record labels, concerts, radio stations, touring networks, the internet, libraries, college campuses, galleries, movie theaters, and any other means available. With these tools we can struggle against a world of perpetual fear and violence bolstered by the Bush administration, as well as collectively resist the weight of our individual apathy.

We hope to bring people together through outreach, trust, and inclusion. We want a more peaceful, just, and equitable word and see the Bush administration in opposition to these goals. Bands Against Bush welcomes all members who share our goals and wish to connect with others. In order to reflect the more equitable world we hope to create, we must be inclusive of women, queers, and transgendered people and the racial and class diversity of our communities.

By our commitment to being inclusive we encourage diversity within our organizing group and public events as well as the possibility of sharing information and resources, and learning from and collaborating with other groups with similar goals. Bands Against Bush strives to create an atmosphere of exchange and learning across social, economic and racial divides

Feel free to adapt this mission statement for your own use

Any organization that allows the mission statement to be "adapted" means that it doesn't have firm (or honest) convictions.

[swilhelm73]

Ah yes, Tom Morello of "Rage Against My Daddy's Trust Fund' fame.

Is this the best groups of bands they can come up with?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I did like some of these band but will avoid them in the future because they're morons.

They offer no real solutions to any problem, just their vapid message that they hate President Bush. Who does that help.

[anncoulteriscool]

I saw Sonic Youth on PBS last week. They looked rather old...or maybe thats just the drugs n'stuff. LOL!

[Petronski]

Well, a bunch of stoners won't be voting for Bush...oh wait, they wouldn't be anyway. Nice try, NEXT!

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You think that you didn't recognize those names (I at least recognized a few) of the bands that will be on the album? Here are the Useful Idiots who are the rest of the wannabes on the Band List:

Band: The Satellites
Location: Herrin, IL
Contact Person: Matt McGuire
Web site:
http://thesatellites1.tripod.com/
E mail: blink_me-873@msn.com
A feel-good rock quartet with an
expanisive taste in music and a desire to play any show.

Band: Famous in Vegas
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Contact Person: Michael Subvert
Web: http://famousinvegas.com
Email: MSubvert@aol.com
Rock n roll punk band

Band: Kimone
Location: Boston, MA
Contact Person : Timothy Den
Web : www.kimone.com
Email: tim@kimone.com

Band: NOT AT ALL
Location: Boston, MA
Contact Person: Ivan
Web: www.notatall.net
Email: info@notatall.net
Check out our song called "W".

Band:The Challanged
Location :Brooklyn, NY
Contact Person: Rob
Web: www.geocities.com/thechallengedmusic
Email: rsuss77@yahoo.com
Melodic political punk band from New York

Band: The Radical Thought Resistance
Location : New York, NY
Contact Person: Howard Alper
Web: www.radthought.com
Email: radthought@aol.com
Phone: 718-781-9795
NYC based band that combines elements of Hard
Rock with Electronica, soulful vocals and socially conscious lyrics. Think Incubus, Sevendust and Rage Against The Machine.

Band: Temper, Temper
Location : Columbus, OH
Contact Person: Beth
Web: http://temper_temper.tripod.com
Email: universalheartbeat@hotmail.com
Pro-queer, pro-choice

Band: Mission to Mars
Location: Portland, OR
Web: www.pdxbands.com/bands/?band=missiontomars
E-mail: philipgolden@attbi.com
Check out "botany lesson." all about what you're all about.

Band: Cardinal
Location: Bham/Seattle, Wa, USA
Contact Person: Matt Fu
Web site:
http://www.cardinal.gq.nu
E mail: thecardinal@bust.com
We are a noisey, screamy three-piece with a
heavy, educated push to the leftside of dial.

Band: sweatshop kids
Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Matt McGuire
Web site:
Dustin Craig
E mail :sweatshopkids@soon.com 705-436-2308
political hardcore ska punk

Band: Grogg
Location: San Francisco
Contact Person: Cody Grimm
Web site:
www.groggband.com
E mail: codygrimm@hotmail.com
Post-Modern Classic Rock

Band: Kervin
Location: Queens, NY
Contact Person: Apurva Mehrotra
Web site: www.whoiskervin.com
E mail: whoiskervin@hotmail.com
212-998-8588
Kervin is a four-piece heavy, punk band. Political/socio-political lyrics along with aggressive beats/riffs. l

Band: Casual Indifference
Location: Portland, OR
Contact Person: Brendan Deiz
Web site: www.geocities.com/casualindifference
E mail: casualindifference@yahoo.com
mostly punk rock, some other stuff, very political

Band: melomane
Location: nyc
Contact Person: quentin
Web site: www.melomane.org
E mail: qjennings@earthlink.net
melodic anarchy

Band: WAD- Seattle
Location: nyc
Contact Person: quentin
Web site: www.wadrocks.com
E mail: webmaster@wadrocks.com, 206-789-4397

Band:SHIT
Location: St Louis, MO
Contact: MaryLiz
Web site: http://www.geocities.com/stothehtotheitothet/index.htm
E mail: tinyreeb@aol.com
political hardcore/punk

Band:frank lloyd wrong
Location: Bloomington, IN
Web site: www.upsettheapplecart.com
E mail: facelesscow@hotmail.com

Band: The Afrosheens
Location: Cambridge, MA
Contact: Afshin Beheshti
Web site:www.mp3.com/theafrosheens
E mail: abeheshti@forsyth.org
Rock/hard-core

Band:The Crunchies
Location: Lexington, KY
Contact: Jennifer Ray
Web site: http://rayart777.tripod.com/crunchies.html
E mail: jenniferama@hotmail.com
We're a garage-punkabilly band with an anarchist
philosophy and a transgendered lead singer.

Band: Mission To Madness
Location: Kennewick, WA
Contact: Mike McCollum
Web site: http://missiontomadness.tripod.com
E mail: zenmonk3000@hotmail.com
Powered by technology. Fuelled by injustice.

Band: andy cigarettes
Location: portland, oregon
Contact: chad ferguson
Web site: andycigarettes@hotmail.com, 503-286-2720
E mail: zenmonk3000@hotmail.com
solo funnybusines.

Band: Glass Elevator
Location: Olympia, WA
Contact: Wylie
Web site: garbijman@arabia.com, (360) 570-8703
E mail: zenmonk3000@hotmail.com
We're a psychadelic pop rock band that wishes to
help in any way be it playing shows or general organization. All of our resources are also yours.

Band: Tampon Dollies
Location: Homeland, California
Contact:Zak, Katie
Web site: www.geocities.com/chaos_kid_oi
E mail: chaos_kid@hotmail.com
Horrorcore Riot Grrrl

Band: big city orchestra
Location: alameda ca.
Contact:Zak, Katie
Web site: http://ubuibi.org/
E mail: das@ubuibi.org
warm noise milk

Band: Algorhythm
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Coven
Web site: http://ubuibi.org/
E mail: danegativecreep@aol.com
A new take on an old rock and roll

Band: SG
Location: portland, OR
Contact: Alex
Web site:
E mail: pati@hevanet.com
A rock band that feels we should all do our own ****ing part

Band: The Exposed
Location: East Haven, CT
Contact: Jim
Web site: http://www.theexposed.cjb.net
E mail: theexposed@hotmail.com
The purpose of our band is not only to point out all
things wrong w/ our fascist nation, but also to prove what a terrible job Bush does as our Presidential leader.

Band: The Bootleggers
Location: Portland Or
Contact: Bubba
Web site:
E mail: bootleggersband@yahoo.com, 360-261-1006
Ska/rock/reggae

Band: Star Seed Manifest
Location:
Contact:
Web site:
E mail: sezmabitm@yahoo.com

Band: The Lonely Samoans
Location: New York City
Contact: samoa
Web site: http://www.lonelysamoans.com
E mail: samoa@rainbowpig.com
political country band

Band: The Fugue
Location: New York City
Contact: Mookie Singerman
Web site: www.the-fugue.com
E mail: pasingerman@vassar.edu
GOP-hatin post-punk

Band: Astral Realm
Location: Oakland
Contact: Sam Stearns
Web site: www.astralrealm.com
E mail: samstearns@hotmail.com
spiritual revolutionary hard rock

Band: Isabella the Brave
Location:Sharon, PA
Contact: Lenny Crist
Web site: http://www.isabellathebrave.com
E mail: lenny@isabellathebrave.com, 724-342-9210
new wave/indie rock/agit prop band in the vein of
cursive, desaparacidos, murder city devils, trail of dead.

Band: A Sandcastle Still
Location:Bellingham, WA USA
Contact:Matt Fu
Web site: http://www.asandcastlestill.gq.nu
E mail: asandcastlestill@bust.com
Mostly mellow and sparse solo acoustic punk.

Band: Astral Realm
Location: Oakland
Contact: Sam Stearns
Web site: www.astralrealm.com
E mail: samstearns@hotmail.com
Everyone can be a punk rocker,why he can't....

CENTRAL AMERICA--NONE NOW

SOUTH AMERICA--NONE NOW

EUROPE

Band: Lillian Gish
Location: Belgium
Contact Person: Fred
Web: www.joueb.com/weinmann
Email: no_fishrec@hotmail.com
Noisy-experimental
belgian band

Band: Tokin'
Location: Dublin Ireland
Contact Person: Mick
Web: www.tokinmusic.com
Email: mick@tokinmusic.com
Melodic Rock

Band: 20 Bulls Each
Location: Dublin , Ireland
Contact Person: Gareth Cummins
Web: www.20bullseach.com
Email: gareth@eircom.net
Melodic Hardcore

Band: wevsdeath
Location: The Netherlands
Web: www.wevsdeath.tk
Email: wevsdeath@hotmail.com

Band Killtimel
Location: Roma
Contact: Stevo Killtime
Web site: http://www.killtime.net
E mail: stevo.killtime@virgilio.it
Everyone can be a punk rocker,why he can't....

ASIA

Band:Trash my dead
Location: Tokyo
Web site: http://homepage2.nifty.com/royal-trash/
E mail: chelsea_girls149@hotmail.com, 080-3121-6738

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Don't PACs have to file someplace?

[Dan from Michigan]

Never heard of any of them except Green Day, and they absolutely suck.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . the "struggle against a world of perpetual fear and violence bolstered by the Bush administration."

These people have apparently already forgotten 9-11, and think that by putting our heads in the sand, the terrorists will go away. They are clueless about the determination, capability, and staying power of the terrorists.

[rickmichaels]

The day of action will be preceded by a Rock Against Reagan Memorial show on October 9th.

And that will be preceded by a Rock Against Soap and Shampoo Memorial show.

[swilhelm73]

Our goals include encouraging debate and dialogue in a climate that is becoming increasingly hostile to dissent.

So let me see if I get this...

Mike Moore denouncing the President on national TV, and got an award basically for lying and creating a piece of anti-Republican propaganda.

According to the Noble committee itself, they gave an award to Carter for attacking the President.

Most of the Dem candidates are going around the nation denouncing the President.

The majority of the media, including the NYT, CNN, and Reuters spend much of their time attacking the president.

And now a bunch of bad, but popular bands, are going around attacking the President.

How the hell is this a climate hostile to dissent??? This isn't like the Clinton years when the IRS would audit you if you spoke out against Clinton, and the White House had domestic enemy files.

These fools are so eager to lap up every bit of propaganda the leftist media can feed them it is disgusting. Just another example of showing one's "individuality" by doing what you perceive everyone else to be doing. Only this time, as opposed to dyeing your hair green or getting a piercing, its fighting *for* Islamism and Fascism.

[Dan from Michigan]

Morello is the former guitarist from Rage Against the Machine.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. To quote a song from them.
"@#^^# you, I won't do what you tell me" - Got that, Tom?