Osaka Punch
Korn‘s Jonathan Davis was so excited by ORGY that he created his own record label …
Today is Aussie Band T-Shirt Day, an actual Internet-enabled day I can get behind. I only ever wear band T-shirts. I have no reason to wear anything else. Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck also wrote a book about dating for men called Models: Using Honesty to Attract Women. For so long, I figured girls didn’t want a bar of me because I wore band T-shirts and nothing else. I felt like I had no sense of style. Black on black erry day. This is when metrosexuals were pulling all the tail, by the by. (Disclaimer: I’m old.)
The real reason (or maybe one of many…or none?) is that in my own frame of mind wasn’t comfortable with my own metalness. I went to high school where anything plugged in had to be a piano or nothing. Metal, punk, rock; this wasn’t “real” music. It was the object of ridicule. But rock ‘n’ roll is for outcasts, and you’re only an outcast if you feel like one. In a circle pit, I was home. If you aren’t home in your own skin, life can be a real struggle. Overcoming your own beliefs – “I suck! People hate me! I’m a loser!” – that’s 99% of the battle right there. Because you don’t. You’re a fantastic, flawed, fucked-up individual, and it’s your God given right to make mistakes. Huge, stupid, untake-backable mistakes. It will happen. The other 1% is finding the shirt you reeeeeeally want to strut, even though your laundry hamper knows it smells like a bag of sweaty pissed-on farts. Anyway, here’s our top ten for this week:
1. We Investigate: Is Ryan Burt Out of The Amity Affliction?
No word from the band yet – read our internet-breaking article here!
2. Ecca Vandal Is Punk Against Punk
And by God does she kick ass at it
3. Download Festival Australia = Yes
Something we can finally agree on
4. Big Fish, Bigger Arkive Sharks
This metaphor is quite bad
5. Time Is The Death, And The Hard Noise
Featuring Wintersun and Crowbar Black’s human pretzel, Rebecca Crowther
6. Osaka Punch, Right To The Majora
Funkateers be trippin’
7. Sugoi! Babymetal Is IT!
Our flashback to our cover story on the bizarro pop-idols from Dimension Kitsune, Babymetal
8. Light Your Farts, Say Arteries
Just don’t complain about it on Twitter
9. The Beverly Chills Ascend To Heaven’s Gate
In 240 lines of vertical resolution, nutless, and in a fuckin’ sick Mustang
10. AHH! It’s Hysty-O-Ween!
Our top howlers for the day o’ weens
