Blowback will be in Los Angeles for the next 2 weeks.  We'll mostly be working on new material, if you'd like to stop by a rehearsal or just say hello, drop us a line. SHOWS UPDATE!   INFO HAS CHANGED: Sunday July 21 - Martini Lounge - 6pm - with Bad Samaritans, Meet The Virus, Moral Restraint, Morningtons, Drug Damaged Youth Sunday July 21 - Lafayette Park - 10pm - with Colapso, Social Conflict, Bomb Victim, Ragtime Revolutionaries, Shitfaced, Dead Banana Ladies, Pacifist Product, Automate, Raw Tofu! Thursday July 25 - Long Beach - 6pm - with Phobia, Elder Wrath, Resort to Distort Check the SHOWS section for all of the details.  These are our first west coast shows, so we're looking forward to it. Blowback's efforts to indict former Chilean dictator General Pinochet are still underway.  We're looking for a few good activists to join in, if you'd like to learn more, join the petition drive, or find out other ways you can help, check the DOCUMENTS section, we've just added a briefing on the Pinochet campaign.

Washington DC: Smash, Tower, DCCD, Melody, CD/Game Exchange New York: Sound and Fury, Bleecker Bob's Boston: Newbury Comics, CD Spins Providence: In Your Ear Los Angeles: Amoeba, Headline, Destroy All, Tower, Benway, Vinyl Solution Of course, you can also get the CD here on the site for a cheapo $7.50, or at a number of other stores. Proceeds from the CD go to Peace Brigades International, Federation of American Scientists, and Independent Media Center/Killradio.

We're also currently planning some shows in the Los Angeles area during the last week of July.  Details coming soon!

05/11/02:
We're more or less recovered from the Spring Tour.   Check out a brief appearance by Blowback in the following video on the DC Indymedia site. The video shows footage of the April 20th demonstrations in Washington DC. We're at about the 15-minute mark, playing in front of the Department of Justice.  John Ashcroft, do you want a copy of our CD?

Also, we've gotten a couple of nice reviews in print.  This is still pretty novel to us, so we'll post them for you.


"Political punk rock with sounds verying from traditional labor songs, super fast rock'n'roll, and hardcore. Lots of revealing quotes from political figures and authors. Their version of 'We Shall Not Be Moved', a traditional labor song, is great! Not bad." - Maximum Rock N Roll, May 2002


" Politically fueled hardcore that actually delivers more bite than bark. Extreme social commentary on government policy, human rights (or lack of) and class struggle. Singer Carlos has actual real world political ties, as he is a Capitol Hill Lobbyist. So it becomes quite apparent that these guys have perspectives that are squarely rooted in reality rather than conceptual gimmickry. Music wise, they are reminiscent to the old school hardcore noise of heavy hitters like MDC and early AGNOSTIC FRONT combined with the brutal assault of current bands like SHUTDOWN and DEATH THREAT. Yeah these guys sound pretty angry and it is evident in their songs. Fast, hard, loud and socially conscious. Everything a good hardcore band should be! " - Skratch Magazine, May 2002

AMERICA'S WAR ON PUNK, DAY 3907-- Blowback has been banned -- once again! -- from playing.  This time, in Rhode Island, due to flyers we distributed with imagery depicting the brutality in Palestinian refugee camps.  The rest of the tour has gone well, however.  Last night we played a great show in Boston with our new friends The Profits, Guardia Negra, the excellent Japanese band Last Target, Resilience and the Turncoats.  Unfortunately, we screwed up and forgot to bring CDs, so if you saw us and want one, click here! Another highlight of the tour was playing for a estimated crowd of 50,000+ protestors in Washington DC.   The Unity March, which combined a number of demonstrations taking place in DC last weekend, passed by the Department of Justice.   Blowback played in front of the DOJ for marchers and police as the procession went by. The final show of the tour is this Saturday, in New Jersey with Prevent Falls, Breaking Pangaea, and many others.   We hope to see you there!

04/12/02 SPRING TOUR - We'll be playing a number of shows in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Washington DC starting next week. Things kick off April 19th and 20th, when we'll be playing 2 nights at the Kaffa House to benefit the Partnership for Civil Justice's Legal Defense Fund. The Partnership will have a number of legal observers on the streets of DC that weekend to protect your civil rights and freedom of expression and assembly. The weekend in DC marks both the Spring IMF/World Bank meetings as well as a number of planned anti-war, anti-globalization, and anti-School of Americas demonstrations. April 19 - Washington DC - Kaffa House - w/Linus, Mental Attraction, The AKs, Stand Still, Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse April 20 - Washington DC - Kaffa House - w/Plan 15, Homage To Catalonia, Cheerleaders of the Apocalyspe, Stand Still, Flicker Flame April 21 - College Park MD - Live on Third Rail Radio, WMUC 88.1 FM @ 6PM, come to the show or listen on the net here. April 23 - Yarmouth MA - Mill Hill Club - w/Romero, From Safety To Where (SC) April 24 - Boston MA - The Berwick - w/A Global Threat, Czolgosz, The Profits, The Boils (DC/MD), Guardia Negra, Resilience (CA) April 25 - Block Island RI - Club Soda - 11PM April 26 - New York NY - TBA April 27 - Bound Brook NJ - Hamilton St. Cafe - w/Prevent Falls, Breaking Pangaea, Let It Burnm, Come Down, My Chemical Romance For more details, check the Shows page. BLOWBACK GOES TO CONGRESS - Blowback vocalist Carlos will be speaking in front of Congress on April 12 regarding the U.S. role in Guatemalan human rights atrocities. He also spoke at a rally on April 9 in front of the Guatemalan Embassy calling on that government to end impunity and to prosecute their human rights criminals, including General Rios Montt who is currently the President of the Guatemalan Congress and who led one of the most vicious campaigns of genocide against the Guatemalan indigenous Mayan population in the early 1980s. READ THE TRANSCRIPT HERE Carlos also enacted a plan to picket the AFL-CIO this week to protest their hosting of known union-buster Bill Schulz (Amnesty International's Executive Director). As a result, AI and the AFL-CIO have issued a joint statement agreeing to work together to allow the unencumbered ability to unionize at AI. BLOWBACK ON THE AIR -- Many thanks to the stations who have started playing Blowback, including WBAR (NY), WFCS (CT), WFMU (NJ), WGFR (NY), WNYU (NY), WSIA (NY), WOR (NY). SITE UPDATES -- Check out the new Info section.  We've added a site-wide search, and some interview archives and playlists from Radio Blowback. Let us know what you think!