Politics is Crime. Crime is Politics. Discuss… Carl F. Gauze reviews Meditations on Crime, the book half of Harper Simon’s super-collaborative art and music project.

Girlie Action Media has announced Meditations on Crime, a collaborative new album and art book, due out September 23

Punk heroes unite to give a rowdy look at the classic L.A.M.F. album 40 years down the road.

Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.

The once vital city of Detroit gave us the auto industry and punk rock. Detroit Rock City shares the heights – and the depths – of the Motor City. James Mann says “Kick out the jams!”

Bernie Lootz meets Dice, Despair and Desire in The Cooler. Rob Levy gives us the odds and the big payout on this overlooked sleeper.

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Adult World (Muscle Tone). Review by James Mann.

Good Clean Filth (Long Beach). Review by David Lee Beowulf.

Various Artists (Musicblitz). Review by Julio Diaz.