The world s a crazy place right now and everyone s got an opinion of how you should be living your life, Dragge tells
Billboard. It s not just because of COVID we re just in this landscape with a lot of people thinking they re right and someone else is wrong. We re constantly under pressure with people trying to tell us how to live our lives. One Voice is a reflection of a lesson Dragge learned from Muir, who taught me about life and how to be punk rock and helped shape me into the the person I am today, says Dragge. That s what the song is about. I am who I am. We have a community and don t need anyone s approval. If you don t like me or my friends, then f you
Dragge. Obviously,
Byron and I had a demo of One Voice laying around for couple years, and I thought it would be cool to bring a couple old friends on board to breath some new life into it. Watching these guys lay down their own personal trademark styles on this song was nothing short of amazing! I think it s safe to safe we re all pretty fucking stoked on the final product, and being able to donate proceeds to
Musack feels pretty awesome as well. Find it, crank it up, and enjoy!
The cover for the track features original art by
3 days ago The Crew, the punk supergroup made up of Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman of Rancid, Fletcher Dragge and Byron McMackin of Pennywise, and Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies have released a new song. The song is called One Voice and is available digitally via Epitaph Records. The song will be released on 7-inch vinyl along with an original song by Rippy and the Sillyettes via Stay Free Recordings with all of the proceeds going toward Musack, a nonprofit organization that helps kids and teens by supporting great music teachers and music programs from coast to coast and beyond . The 7-inch will be out this summer. Check out the lyric video for the song below.
As the weather warmed during the spring of 2020, many were not working laid off or furloughed or had begun working from home as a result of the new COVID-19 pandemic. Such was the case with Jon and Julia Halperin.
Now, if you went to a Chain Reaction from 2000 to 2006, Jon booked it. If you’ve been to The Glass House in the last 15 years, chances are, that was a Jon Halperin show. He has booked thousands of acts over the last two decades, from Death Cab For Cutie and Jimmy Eat World to Paramore and Weezer to Gwen Stefani and Thrice. He even started a small indie label in the ’90s.
With Festivals On Hold, Indie Booker Shifts Focus to Limited-Run Record Label Billboard 2/18/2021 Jon Halperin
Jon Halperin has held just about every job in music managing bands, running an indie record label, overseeing a pop-up store at Coachella, booking bands for the Glasshouse in Pomona, Calif. and running point on talent buying for festivals stretching from the Dominican Republic to Long Beach, Calif., where he has lived for over a decade.
In theory, a pandemic is an existential crisis for a person constantly in motion, but with most of his music work put on hold, Halperin decided it was time to pursue an idea he had been batting around for a couple of months the launch of Stay Free Recordings, a limited run music label specializing in 7-inch records on collectable colored vinyl by mostly independent acts.