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The run-up to the holidays often means a slowdown in San Antonio's live music options. Not so this week.

‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie’ is a new documentary written and directed by Moby which explores the relationship between punk rock and animal rights.

Peter Aaron reviews Mike Pride's album I Hate Work.

Two worlds came together when Mike Pride, a powerful presence on the NYC underground jazz and experimental music scene, joined the hardcore giants MDC in 2002. Pride played and toured with the band for three years, in that time recording a single album that only just now is being released. Called I Hate Work, the album reimagines some of MDC’s signature songs, such as “Dick for Brains,” “Corporate Deathbuger” and the title track. Brad Cohan spoke with Pride about the new album and the experience of holding down the drum stool in a punk band.

Leftover Crack will release an oral history of the band titled The book was written by LoC guitarist Brad Logan and Punknews' John Gentile. The book tells the entire history of the band via first-hand accounts from the break up of Choking Victim through the present day. Architects of Self-Destruction tells dozens of stories including the band's conflict with Hellcat Records, the donut social, the time they faced off against a gang in Florida, the riot in Phoenix where the band themselves actually started the riot, the fact that had the drummer not quit his job to tour with the band he woul...