Review: Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Thomas Nassiff

Being drawn to Laura Jane Grace’s memoir, TRANNY: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, is a natural side-effect of being hypnotized, mesmerized, and forever in awe of Against Me!’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues. I appreciated Transgender Dysphoria Blues for a myriad of reasons: It’s a hell of a rock-and-roll album, it’s intimate and personal in its storytelling, the way my favorite artists have always sung their stories, and it made me a better person. The latter point is not something that can be said for a ton of my favorite albums.

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Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties Put Albums Up as Pay What You Want

Aaron West
Jason Tate

Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties have put all their music up on Bandcamp as “pay what you want” with all the proceeds going to the ACLU through November 28th.

Through November 28th, the entire Aaron West catalog is available for pay-what-you-want with all of the proceeds donated to the ACLU to help them in their fight to challenge the president elect if and when he attempts to implement any of his unconstitutional campaign promises. For more information, please visit ACLU.org

Bon Jovi Earns Sixth No. 1 Album

Jason Tate

Bon Jovi has the number one album this week. Alicia Keys is at number two, the Trolls Soundtrack is at three.

Bon Jovi’s new album This House Is Not for Sale debuts atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving the rock band its sixth No. 1. The set earned 129,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 10, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 128,000 were in traditional album sales.

Sex Pistols About Talked About Writing New Music in 1996

Sex Pistols About Talked About Writing New Music in 1996
Jason Tate

Apparently back in 1996, the Sex Pistols considered releasing new music. NME reports that the lone dissenter was John Lydon.

Matlock went on to reveal that he had been keen to write new music during their first reunion: “Back in 1996, there was a bit of talk about it. Me, Steve [Jones] and Paul [Cook] [wanted to] but John thought shy of it. I don’t know why, maybe he thought stuff that he’d written didn’t match up to [the past] and that [the band’s legacy] might be diminished by it somehow.”