Wisconsin Bands Unite Against Scott Walker With Charity Compilation
Band Photo: Volunteer (?)
A group of local punk, hardcore, metal and indie musicians have teamed up in protest against governor Scott Walker.
Led by DJ Hostettler (of IfIHadAHiFi) and Anthony Webber (of Heavy Hand), the bands have gathered together to release "Unintimindated: Wisconsin Musicians against Scott Walker," a compilation CD/DVD that will raise funds for issues that Governor Walker reportedly detests. The compilation will also include an old-school cut-and-paste zine, and all proceeds will go to soup kitchens and Planned Parenthood.
DJ said about the compilation: "We've worked on this project for about a year now, hatching our scheme in February 2015 and moving from gauging interest in the bands, to securing a studio, to convincing an absolute murderer's row of musicians, engineers, cameramen, editors, and gruntworkers to donate their time to a project that, in today's political environment in Wisconsin, runs the rest of being little more than a cathartic scream into the wilderness. But hopefully it'll be more than that.
"If this collection of songs can raise money for some solid causes that help those whom Scott Walker refuses to help, then this is a success. If this collection of songs provides a soundtrack for a political revolution in Wisconsin that leads to motivated progressives taking back our state from the tyranny of the rich and power-mad, then holy shit, that's amazing. But at the very least, we will have provided a document of artistic work that will hopefully stand for generations and show Wisconsin, the country, and the world, that no, not everyone in Wisconsin was satisfied to sit and let Scott Walker and his corporate overlords ruin our state.
"There were at least 16 bands' worth of progressive punk rockers that said, 'we are ANGRY and we want the world to know it.' If all this project achieves is a mighty, violent scream of outrage, well, at least we managed that, and hopefully someone heard us."
Full details on the project are available at this location and the track listing is as follows:
1. "285 Feet Tall" - Haunted Heads
2. "Too Tired to Riot" - FowlMouth
3. "Right to Work" - Body Futures
4. "Starving" - Drillers
5. "Wrong" - Volunteer
6. "Open for Strabismus" - Soup Moat
7. "A Bad Man" - Lady Cannon
8. "How About 'No,' Scott?" - Holy Shit!
9. "White Power Norah Jones" - Heavy Hand
10. "What's Wrong With the Right (2 Work It?)" - Midwest Death Rattle
11. "Bring Back the Guillotines" - IfIHadAHiFi
12. "Three Point Program to Destroy Wisconsin" - Tyranny is Tyranny
13. "Walk(er) Against Us" - Donoma
14. "Left Mitten" - Venus in Furs
15. "Scott Walker, You're a Piece of Shit" - Damsel Trash
16. "Bad Wolf" - Testa Rosa
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1. Extremely concened American writes:
Utter filth......Remind me why I like heavy metal when it is a complete smear to everything "freedom" and "Pro-America". If everybody wants to live in a socialist utopia go f***ing live in Europe where the refugee program is even more corrupt than America. It is a total shame they even have the American flag on this BS. If we would quit worrying about "fitting in" and lobbyist "special interest groups" and get back to work we'd be ok!
But no, here comes another "musician" with a bleeding heart who has never worked an honest day in their life to support our dying economy, let's steal that hard working person's money and give give give to those "deserving"
I WILL NOT CO-EXIST - I will Individualize and be the best I can be and worry about me and my family! That is how an honest country works.