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Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Bad Religion’s Christmas Songs
Bad Religion has been a punk band since, roughly, the beginning of existence. In Gnostic religions when the Monad, the mind of God, first became...
Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks the Love Triangle’s Clever Clever
Is there a genre of music more beautiful and widely detested than pop-punk? Sentimental, sappy and often sexist, pop-punk is power-pop for...
Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Black Flag, Flag and Chuck Dukowski, National Treasure
We start with the proposition that nothing is sacred, and that's pretty good. No gods, no masters, because really, gods and masters, what have you...
Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Cairo Pythian’s Unity Mitford
I write fan letters to record labels. In the way that my pal Sean Doyle writes to poets and essayists he admires, just to let them know that they...
Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Kirin J. Callinan’s “Embracism”
Kirin J. Callinan’s “Embracism” isn’t my song of the summer yet, but it will be. This song, this lurching life-dirge of Frank Tovey covering...
Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Hawthorne Heights’ Zero
In my previous band’s occasional forays into cross-country touring, we’d usually play small clubs with audiences made up of the local ex-hardcore...
Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks About Playing In a Band No One Likes
I was in a band for nine years. We put out three records, two of them financially backed by small labels. We sold, approximately, a thousand copies...






