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Show #327: Gay Black Republican
By: Darrin Snider (darrin at indyintune dot com)Sunday, May 23, 2021 5:00:00 PM
History lesson for you: "Punk Rock" was not invented by the British in the mid 1970's. I know, it surprised me too. The term was apparently coined by music critics (those guys) back in the 1960 to refer to the aggressive, low-fi music coming from Detroit, Chicaco, and New York that was a direct sonic counter-point to the radio-friendly, squeaky clean, "hippie dippy" music (Fifth Dimension, Turtles, Sonny and Cher, BJ Thomas, et al) popular at the time. As with American blues, it was adopted and refined by "post-Mod" Londoners (some would say directed by Malcom McLaren) who gave it much of the subsequent imagery, fashion, and culture surrounding it. Since then, as with any good genre, it has been reclaimed, lost, split into a dozen sub-genres, buried deep in the earth for years at a time, dug up, recycled, made mainstream, driven back underground, and so forth.
This week's guests, Gay Black Republican, while certainly not one of the original punk bands of Indy, are long-time veterans of the Indianapolis music scene and could be argued are the current reigning kings of that scene. Through six full-length albums and about as many EP's, bootlegs, and live recorded sets, the band has evolved from the garage band ethos to a more refined, intelligent-but-irreverent powerhouse of energy and musicianship. Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the band, and as we learn in this interview, they show no signs of letting up or slowing down.
Links Referenced in the Show:
- Gay Black Republican can be found here: Web site | Facebook
- Their latest album, U.S.A. L.L.C. can be found here: Bansdcamp | Spotify
- Older albums can be found on their website.
- Rich Barker is famous for running Punk Rock Night, find their upcoming events on their Facebook page.
- The bad toured with TSOL and Dead Kennedys.
- When they first played The Vogue with the Dead Kennedy's they were fronted for the night by another local icon, Benny Nogood.
- Catch them at Black Circle Brewing on June 18 (2021)
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Darrin Snider is the OCD music nerd responsible for creating Indy In-Tune. By day he's a cloud engineer and business analyst, but he still hopes to someday be an overnight freeform disc jockey married to the local weathergirl who happens to be a former eastern-European supermodel. |
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