The back of some crappy beer-soaked tavern is not where one expects an awakening of political consciousness. But if you've out come to see hardcore punk band HeWhoCorrupts (HWC), you're going to have one--smoky and sweaty though it may be. At some point late in [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Maybe what it really comes down to is that there are really no new ideas out there anymore. It’s all been done before so art has become nothing more than trying to repackage old ideas. Image is nothing but trying to remake other images into your own.
Other bands have done the nudity thing, but realized that it gets it the way of the music. Either you’re strippers or professional musicians trying to make it big, the latter becomes the motivation.
And others have played music with lyrical content of the money theme, nothing new there either. But in consumer capitalism, hypocrisy becomes automatic when a band is trying to make money singing about the sins of money.
But this bands thoughts on economics are a little off. Corporations are not “fueled by independents” as the objective of corporations (I’m assuming Slania is speaking of the music industry) is to sign bands into the corporate realm, to own them. Further, corporations are always out to either eliminate or squelch the competition or to take over the competition with buyouts. Slania’s band will be ignored by corporations unless HWC becomes popular enough locally to consider as a national band. In that case HWC will be signed and “owned” and you can bet they won’t be playing in the nude anymore.
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