The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering..

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obvious….

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vei….

That's a Roman concept where the government can do anything, as long as you give the people "bread and circuses." And I'd say this culture right now ….

I'm all for file sharing. That's great - as long as people are prepared for the significant consequences. One is that music will become completely co….

Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essen….

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with somethin….

Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what example can you….

One aspect of our site that I really appreciate is how I put up as much information as I've been able to keep track of: dates, the venue, the city, t….

First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost ….

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards..

I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move be….

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format..

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people'….

I think about Dischord. There's been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of "overlords" of the scene. Some people have felt ….

For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing..

You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with the issues surrounding punk….

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be m….

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance..

The food thing is crazy to me. In this town the beer thing is also crazy to me. Frankly even with Brightest Young Things, it's such a celebration of ….

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about th….