AOL's Noisecreep.com has just posted a Q&A with him as well:

Tony Rettman on Noisecreep

In the early seventies, Detroit was the musical hub of America. Everything from the chart topping sounds of Motown records to the vicious proto-punk of The Stooges was being brewed out there and it seemed like there was no end in sight. But by the early eighties, the city was both a physical and cultural wasteland due to major label buyouts of the artists as well as the crippling drug habits of some of the others. Detroit's most known musical export at the time was the vapid sounds of New Wave heartthrobs The Romantics; this wasn't good. It took a gaggle of suburban skateboarders, a grade school teacher and a census bureau clerk to wake this city up from its slumber and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America.

"Why Be Something That You're Not" chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties. Through a combination of oral history and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the Southern California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene that cultivated the music's grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots even knew what the music was about.]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://revelationrecords.com/news/229 http://revelationrecords.com/news/burn?228 Click here for more info.:

http://www.thegramaphone.co.uk/2010/03/redress-benefit-concert/

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WBSTYN On Double Cross

If that's not enough, check out Tony's blog and other "Why Be Something That You're Not" related pages:

Blog: http://wbstyn.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/wbstyn

Twitter: http://twitter.com/wbstyn]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST http://revelationrecords.com/news/225 http://revelationrecords.com/news/judge?224 The new Judge "What It Meant" t-shirt is available now on RevHQ.com.




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The Bad Penny Blog Burning Fight Interview

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Video of a full Walter Schreifels set from at Studio B in Phildelphia. 12/4/09:

http://vimeo.com/8009268



Revelation Records X Burning Fight X Tradition Limited Edition T-Shirt Now Available:

http://www.shoptradition.com/store/proddetail.php?prod=3800



My Ghetto Blog takes a look back at Engine Kid "Angel Wings" LP:

http://andrewtsks.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-i-drive-you-home.html



Gorilla Biscuits themed Halloween. L.E.S. NYC 2009:

http://twitpic.com/sq2vt/full



Radio Silence Crucial Yule Holiday Jam in Brooklyn on Dec 14th:

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs017.snc3/12436_199709627257_18147552257_2957678_4351278_n.jpg



Jeff Nelson of Dischord Records/Minor Threat fame in the Washington City Paper:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2009/12/10/minor-threat-drummer-sells-test-pressing-for-nearly-6000/



New poll on Double Cross Websize. What is your favorite Jules Masse front band? Side By Side or Alone In A Crowd? Vote now.

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Farside "Audience" music video is now online for your viewing pleasure:

http://vimeo.com/channels/revelation#7827224



Crippled Youth (BOLD) videos from the Everybody's Scene book release show:

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKH1xpO1Mtg

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl92z8vSufI

Photos:

http://forums.livewire-records.com/read.php?f=1&i=378965&t=378965#reply_378965



A dedicated Judge "Chung King Can Suck It" owner (x2 copies) seals the deal in ink:

http://jawkdna.com/blog/?p=957



Youth Of Today's classic "Go Vegetarian" t-shirt is now available in heather grey:

http://revhq.com/store.revhq?Page=search&Id=REVSS108



Revelation Records t-shirt blowout at RevHQ.com:

http://revelationrecords.com/news/show/216



Joe Nelson wraps up his 5 days with HR for the Thanksgiving Jam:

http://doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com/2009/12/joe-nelsons-thanksgiving-jam-with-hr.html

Photos:

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Gorilla Biscuits played this past Sunday in Austin, Texas at the 4th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest and all types of coverage of their set has been popping up online. We've collected up the best of the best and compiled it into one handy spot for your consumption, so sit back and dig in...

QUOTES/REVIEWS:

Hardcore masters Gorilla Biscuits stirred up the best (and muddiest) mosh pit of the weekend while urging the steak-loving Texan crowd to go vegetarian.

- Spin.com

Anthony Civorelli is still an empowering frontman capable of whipping hardcore crowds up into a healthy mosh. That side of the Black Stage felt very much like a family reunion compared to the rest of the festival. Cuts from 1989's tough-guy hardcore classic Start Today still manage to resound two decades after their release.

- Houstonpress.com

I went to check out Gorilla Biscuits. Mayhem. I've never seen so much crowd surfing and stage diving.

- Absolutepunk.net

Gorilla Biscuits, the late 80s hardcore legends, took to the Black Stage here at Fun Fun Fun Fest and blasted through an intense punk-by-the-numbers set. But, when you practically wrote the coloring book, it’s a-ok to be by-the-numbers. Blisteringly fast drums, shredding chugging guitars, and Civ’s frantic vocals whipped the soggy masses into a frothy mosh pit within 30 seconds.

- Austinsound.net

Gorilla Biscuits. Biggest circle pit I’ve ever seen. Jumped in at the opening horns of New Direction, which is the only song I know most of the lyrics to. Got my quick poser fix in and then got out.

- Toomanypoets.wordpress.com

Anyone who didn't watch Gorilla Biscuits obviously missed the most gnarly response of the fest.

- Erick Pressman (a dude on Facebook)

Gorilla Biscuits rocked.

- Christopher Biard (a dude on Facebook)

Gorilla Biscuits destroyed it last night. They left me for dead and for Danzig to eat my corpse.

- Jordan Stewart (a dude on Facebook)

Gorilla Biscuits’ set very well may have been the highlight of the Fest for me. I’d never seen the band before, and they sounded like they’d been playing these songs nonstop for 20 years. And the crowd was awesome. I don’t get to enough quality hard-core shows (are there many these days?).

- Babystew.com

Lead singer Anthony “Civ” Civorelli and guitarist Walter Schreifels have been doing their thing with both the Biscuits and other NYC hardcore groups for over two decades, and they’ve still got a dedicated cult of drug-free fans who continue to worship at the altar of its seminal 1989 full-length Start Today.

- Avclub.com

This was easily one of my favorite hardcore experiences ever. They played fucking awesome, and I was right up front the whole time. I was the long haired dude up on stage at one point during Start Today singing along with Civ (no namedrop intended, I'm just still so stoked on that). That was the first time I had ever done something like that, and I still get goosebumps thinking about how much fucking fun that was.

- RefuseXtoLose (dude on the Bridge 9 message board)

PHOTOS:

Via Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogo2000/sets/72157622647568701/

Via Nutterphotog.com

http://www.nutterphotog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TBN_7446.jpg

VIDEOS:

"New Direction" stage cam via Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/7526253

"Cats and Dogs" pit cam via Fun Fun Fun Fest

http://www.funfunfunfest.com/media/videos/1401/1177

"Big Mouth" pit cam via YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GixbKeAb4lw

"Degradation" pit cam via Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJJzomNTFg

"Things We Say" and "Good Intentions" pit cam via YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHyk1oES1Y

"Degradation" (2nd angle) pit cam via YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2X2BhTgp58

"Stand Still" pit cam via YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzVc1sW_lBI

"Sittin' Round At Home" pit cam via Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/7551864

"High Hopes" and "Degradation" pit cam via YouTube

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Check it out here:

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Check it out here:

http://www.music-scan.de/infos/stories/details.php?id=982]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://revelationrecords.com/news/207 http://revelationrecords.com/news/youthoftoday?206 Youth Of Today's classic "Go Vegetarian" t-shirt is now back in stock after being unavailable for over 10 years.







You can check them out here:



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