Anti-Flag

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Anti-Flag w/ Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Gone Wrong at Higher Ground

Showcase Lounge

Bad Cop/Bad Cop

Doll Skin

The Anti-Flag performance originally scheduled for March 13, 2020 has been postponed to November 6, 2021. All tickets for the March 13 performance will be honored at the November 6 show. Apologies for any inconvenience.--We regrettably announce that Doll Skin is no longer on the lineup for the November 6 Anti-Flag show. Apologies for any inconvenience.The <a href="https://lyte.com/highergroundeb/Anti-Flag-107875" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OFFICIAL TICKET EXCHANGE</a> for Anti-Flag at Higher Ground on November 6th, 2021 is now open.&gt;&gt; REQUEST tickets to this sold out show by joining Higher Ground’s wait-list &gt;&gt; RETURN tickets if you cannot attend &gt;&gt; SEND tickets to another fan, friend or family memberDirect Link: <a href="https://lyte.com/highergroundeb/Anti-Flag-107875" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://lyte.com/highergroundeb/Anti-Flag-107875</a>—$18 advance | $20 day of show<a href="http://www.anti-flag.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.anti-flag.com</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anti.flag.official" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/anti.flag.official</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/antiflag" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/antiflag" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/antiflag</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/anti_flag" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/anti_flag</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/antiflag" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/c/antiflag </a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/30sqtiTKIb1oDve0SdYayT" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/artist/30sqtiTKIb1oDve0SdYayT </a>Anti-Flag is a political punk band, which is obvious from their namealone. But over the course of 12 albums across more than 25 yearstogether, they’ve rarely set their sights on singular individuals insongs. Unlike their punk predecessors in the 80s, who made targets ofReagan and his cronies, Anti-Flag has always opted not to date theirwork with current references, instead focusing on fighting ongoingoppression and dismantling deeply rooted systems of injustice. But ontheir new album, 20/20 Vision, the band is drawing a big, fat line inthe sand.“We have actively chosen to not attack Presidents directly, eitherwith album art or songs about certain times in history, because werecognize that the issues we’re dealing with are cyclical,” saysbassist Chris #2. “But this record in particular, we kind of said,well fuck that, we need to be on the record in opposition to thepolicies of Donald Trump and Mike Pence.”“This record is a warning to people holding neofascist ideas or peoplewho are enabling these types of positions, whether you’re outrightracist or you’re enabling racism or sexism or homophobia ortransphobia,” adds guitarist Justin Sane. “You need to make a choiceat this point. What we’ve seen with this White House is that there’sno grey area anymore.”Produced by From First to Last’s Matt Good, 20/20 Vision (SpinefarmRecords, January 17, 2020) kicks off with a soundbite of Donald Trumpspeaking at a rally. And while just about anything the man has saidover the last few years would make for a fitting sample on a punkrecord, Anti-Flag were deliberate in their choice. “In the good olddays, this doesn’t happen, because they used to treat them very, veryrough,” Trump is heard saying over the opening track, “Hate ConquersAll.” “And when they protested once, they would not do it again soeasily.”“What I found compelling about that particular Trump sample is thatit’s the quintessential move that he pulls, which is: Say the thinginto the world early, so that when it happens later, people arealready accustomed to it,” says #2, who believes that dissenters likejournalists, protestors, and punk bands are not far down on the listof those who will eventually be rounded up and detained. “We’ve alwayscautioned that if you’re not standing up for the most marginalized andthe most oppressed then you’re not truly free.”“Hate Conquers All” seeks to dissect the lexicon we use around racismto hold ourselves more accountable. “The song is a kneejerk reactionto the idea of Love Trumps Hate and this idea that love can beat backhatred,” notes #2. “That equates racism with hatred. That’s a falseequivalence of what the language should be. If you’re racist, you’reracist. You don’t just hate people. It should be considered a muchmore vile term.”Later on the album, “Christian Nationalist” calls out those hidingbehind religious zealotry to mask their neofacism, and the chorusmakes it clear that these people will be held accountable: “We allknow who you are!”“When you listen to David Duke talk, you’re listening to Donald Trumptalk,” Sane says of the track. “These people hide behind the veneer ofsuits or speaking well and the various ways in which they hide theirbigotry, but the reality is that they’re just as bad as the fascistsin the 1930s or the segregationists in America.“I’m not saying doxxing is OK, but I think it is important to let acommunity know that their neighbor is a racist who was chanting, ‘Jewswill not replace us!’ There has to be accountability.”On 20/20 Vision’s title track, the band takes a deliberately poppyapproach to grappling with a tough pill they’ve had to swallowrecently: Seeing elements of the framework that punk bands likeAnti-Flag have established over the last couple of decades as it iscoopted and used as talking points by the alt-right.“The roadmap that we created in the 90s, of alternative media andforms of communicating, was a left-wing strategy to bring truth topower,” says drummer Pat Thetic. “The right wing has very effectivelytaken all those skills we learned in the 80s and 90s and turned themagainst the left. That’s been a challenging thing for us, to see thestrategies that we grew up with being used against us in such aneffective way.”And while the newscycle moves faster than ever before, 20/20 Visionaims to take a step back and stare down the most pressing problems ofour time: kids in cages, the fentanyl crisis, rolling back EPArestrictions. It’s a record that at once feels both timely and forwardthinking. 20/20 Vision is a work that Anti-Flag hopes will serve as animmediate form of communication with those who are politically engagedas well as a document of our modern times for a future generation.As #2 puts it: “We hope that when someone trips over this record inthe sand of the post apocalypse, they’ll know that there were peoplewho once stood in opposition to all of this.”

BAD COP/BAD COP: <a href="https://www.badcopbadcopband.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.badcopbadcopband.com</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/badcopbadcopband" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/badcopbadcopband</a>It’s been a hectic couple of years since Los Angeles punk quartet Bad Cop/Bad Cop dropped their debut full-length, Not Sorry. The band spent a huge chunk of the intervening time on the road, like most bands do—and they wound up discovering some ugly things about themselves, like most bands do. Only for Bad Cop/Bad Cop, it got very serious, very quickly. “We were on the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary tour in 2015, and Stacey was partying really hard,” says co-vocalist Jennie Cotterill. “She ended up bottoming out on the tour, and we had to leave. It was not a good separation. We had to go home and drop off the tour and figure out if we were still a band, what are we going to do about Stacey… Thankfully, Fat helped send her to detox, and she came out of that as a completely new person with a totally different trajectory. Before that, she was demonically possessed. She was destroying everything around her.” Out of that experience came “Amputations,” one of the highlights on Bad Cop/Bad Cop’s explosive second album, Warriors. The song is a slower, bigger sing-along than anything else in the band’s growing catalog, and it’s about the only thing not at a breakneck pace on the record.Many of the album’s most cathartic, aggressive moments come from the mind of co-vocalist Stacey Dee, who after going through the darkest time of her life has come out stronger than ever. Instead of focusing solely on her own issues, she was able to expand her horizons, writing songs as poignant as “Victoria” (about a friend’s child who committed suicide) and “Womanarchist” (in which Dee namedrops Revolutionary War heroine Nancy Morgan Hart and Joan of Arc while proclaiming she wants “to make the whole world feminist”). Dee explains much of her expanded worldview came in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, making Warriors one of the first punk albums written in the Trump era.“The election made a real big impact on us,” Dee says. “We were really hurt and really sad. It felt like we needed to take a stand and say something. I had never really dug into anything super-serious about fairness, equality or justice in my songwriting before. When my bandmates and I got a chance to rebuild together following my fall, it was all about honesty, celebrating our differences and letting our power come together naturally.” The foursome began recording immediately following a successful tour with the Interrupters last fall, spending roughly six weeks between Hurley Studios and Maple Sound Studios with their longtime collaborator and producer Davey Warsop between December 2016 and February 2017, with Jason Livermore (Descendents, Lagwagon) responsible for mixing and mastering—and just like on Not Sorry, Fat Wreck Chords founder Fat Mike chimed in with plenty of ideas as well.“When it comes to songwriting, I’m open to anyone offering ideas—I think that makes it cooler. I’m all about what sounds best. Mike had really great ideas—most of the time, I agreed with him,” Dee says with a laugh. That songwriting invitation extended within the band, too, as bassist Linh Le contributed two of Warriors’ finest moments, “I’m Done” and the title track. The former tackles the topic of gender-related microaggressions (“I felt instead of being passive-aggressive about it, I was just going to be aggressive,” Le says); the latter was written to pay homage to all who have devoted their lives to fight for equality and was inspired by the Trưng sisters, who led Vietnam’s rebellion against China nearly 2,000 years ago. Needless to say, there is more to Bad Cop/Bad Cop than your average punk band—and that’s how the women like it. “It is important to raise awareness,” Le says. “There are so many people we care about who feel stuck or afraid.”“We tend to stick up for the underdog,” Dee concludes. “It hurts us when anyone is marginalized. I was so negative for most of my life. After changing my life, I have been trying to focus on strength, connectedness and positivity. I think this record is a good start.”

DOLL SKIN:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idPOIVhIu24" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idPOIVhIu24</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dollskinband" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/dollskinband</a><a href="https://twitter.com/dollskinband" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/dollskinband</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dollskinband" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/dollskinband</a>Two desert rats from Phoenix, Arizona, touring the world since the age of 13 alongside acts such as Creeper, Trash Boat and New Found Glory with total world domination top on their agenda. From Warped Tour to Slam Dunk, Doll Skin have been recruiting fans to the Rat Pack with their genre-fluid rebellion all across the map.Since releasing their debut album ‘Love Is Dead And We Killed Her’ under Hopeless Records the duo look to the future, Doll Skin look to the future with new single ‘Control Freak’; a reflection of the dark times faced in 2020 and noticeable developed sound from the band, a middle finger to assumptions of who they are or who people want them to be.With the battlefields of their teenage years now in the rear view mirror, Doll Skin are taking the Rat Pack on a new mission: To define what rebellion means to them now.RAT PACK FOREVER.

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