Keep reading for an excerpt from the book, exclusive to New Noise! It delves into how the band are stridently anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic (and the resulting blowback those views caused), how they have championed many progressive causes, how they have made art that has attacked organized religion, why squats are important, and how their music has been deeply important to many young fans.īut, the book also looks at the less “glamorous” side of the band, including how the death of numerous members has affected the band, how they have struggled with drugs and depression, and unending intra-band turmoil where, as Dick Lucas says, “the band kept reserving each blow that they were dealing out for themselves.” The book doesn’t sugarcoat the truth, showing the positive and negative sides to the band. Damian Abraham of Fucked Up pens the foreword. Clair (Witch Hunt), Denise Vertucci (Mischief Brew), members of F-Minus, members of Star Fucking Hipsters, employees of Epitaph/Hellcat records, employees of Alternative Tentacles records, employees of Fat Wreck Chords, mental health professionals, residents of the infamous C-Squat, the elusive “Chickenman,” and many, many more. There’s also tales of the destruction of the pre-LoC band Choking Victim, the fact that if the drummer had not quit his day job to go on tour with LoC he would have died in 9/11, the rise and fall of the LoC spin-off band Star Fucking Hipsters, the rise and fall of LoC adjacent band F-Minus, innumerable intra-band conflicts, innumerable intra-band fistfights, people quitting the band, people re-joining the band, people re-quitting the band, the “donut social” wherein the singer, while playing a set, threw a donut at a cop causing a riot to erupt, and more.įor the book, Logan and Gentile conducted hundreds of interviews and spoke to nearly 100 people in the LoC world including Scott Sturgeon (LoC vocalist), Ara Babajian (LoC drummer), Alec Baillie (LoC bassist, RIP), Ezra Kire (LoC guitarist), Skwert (Choking Victim drummer), Pezent Shayne (Choking Victim bassist), Fat Mike (NoFX Fat Wreck Chords), Penny Rimbaud (Crass), Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy), Steve Albini (producer), Dick Lucas (Subhumans), Joe Jack Talcum (Dead Milkmen), Mikey Erg (The Ergs, SFH), Dave Dictor (MDC), John John Jesse (Nausea), Pete Steinkopf (Bouncing Souls), Jack Terricloth (World/Inferno Friendship Society), Amery Smith (Suicidal Tendencies, Beastie Boys), Alice Hour (LoC vocalist), Kate Coysh (LoC vocalist), Janine St. Expect to read about the band’s conflict over censorship with Hellcat records due to the original title of their first album Mediocre Generica, how the song “Clear Channel (Fuck Off)” almost split the band in two, that time the band brought machetes to fight a “punk gang” down in Florida, and that time the band instigated a massive riot at their own show and police helicopters were called. The book was co-written by LoC guitarist Brad Logan and writer John Gentile (editor at ), and we have an exclusive excerpt just for you!Ī comprehensive oral history of the band, from formation to now, the book tells the insane stories through first-hand accounts with band members and almost 100 others dragged into the chaos. Iconic anarchistic punk band Leftover Crack will release their oral history, Architects of Self-Destruction, August 10 via Rare Bird.
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