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If there’s any doubt that the balance has shifted in the bi-coastal rock community—in terms of talent, excitement, commitment, energy, etc.— from East to West, one need only observe feisty Lawndale, CA indie label SST, founded by Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski a decade ago as home for their own seminal punk band Black Flag.
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HERE COMES TOMORROW
MEAT PUPPETS “Huevos” (SST)
DIVINE HORSEMEN Snake Handler (SST)
If there’s any doubt that the balance has shifted in the bi-coastal rock community—in terms of talent, excitement, commitment, energy, etc.— from East to West, one need only observe feisty Lawndale, CA indie label SST, founded by Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski a decade ago as home for their own seminal punk band Black Flag. Through the years, the company has served as home for any number of radical, independentlyminded rock groups, including Husker Du, the Minutemen, Firehose, Sonic Youth and countless other off-shoots and oddities, including the pair under consideration right here.
That’s not to say the SST stamp is a blanket seal of approval, but they are out there on the cutting edge, and haven’t seen fit to take any filthy corporate lucre, either, even tho’ you’ve gotta figger they’ve had the chance by now to go the Enigma/Slash/I.R.S./Twintone route of latching on to the multi-national mammary. Some people prefer to remain unencumbered so they don’t have to make the sort of compromises required by, unh, how can we put this... selling out?