Antillectual

Anti-Flag is releasing  a series of 6 EPs in celebration of their 20-year existence. “20 years of Hell” features re-recorded versions of their songs and one new song. The band invited 6 bands to appear on the B-sides of the EPs. Guess who will appear on the 6th and last issue of this series? Yours truly indeed!

We contributed “Soundtrack” and “To All Members of Parliament” that previously appeared on “Perspectives & Objectives”. A-F Records will release the split that is limited to 500 copies, but we will have some limited, imported copies available in our webstore as well.

Side A
Anti-Flag – Close My Eyes (new song!)
Anti-Flag – The Ghosts Of Alexandria

Side B
Antillectual – Soundtrack
Antillectual – Mother Inferior

You can order a copy from us right here

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Better late than never, especially when it’s a killer review like this one: Punknews.org wrote a review of our latest album “Perspectives & Objectives”. The people who coined the term “orgcore” gave us 4 out of 5 stars and As melodic Europunk goes, this band has to be up near the top of the pile. Read for yourself

Related to the latter, and old news to those who receive our newsletter: we recently released “Perspectives & Objectives” as a pay-what-you-like download. For those interested in physical copies, check our webshop, or for cheap shipping to North America and Australia check the A-F Records store.

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Two weeks ago we started this reference challenge. We realized it was quite something to ask people to actually read and think about song lyrics. But it was fun to see people actually do it and come up with interesting (and sometimes unintended) references. Thanks for thinking along!

Tim Jansen from Zuid Scharwoude (NL) came up with most correct references, as you can check below. He wins a discography+shirt. When we release another album we will repeat this challenge with fresh lyrics and references, so keep an eye out!

Winning references:

With Gaga On Our Side refers to With God On Our Side by Bob Dylan

Mother Inferior > Mother Superior by Good Riddance

Waste = Food > An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Chinese Takeover > Chinese Democracy by Guns ‘N Roses

So Much More > Girls, Girls, Girls by Motley Crue

Benefit of the Doubt’s “Socrates always was right” > “I know that I know nothing” by Socrates

Another Guide’s “produce what you can and consume in so far you need” > Karl Marx

The Dog Ate It! > Dividing Lines by Adhesive

Spoken quote before I Hope You Got My Letter > The Shawshank Redemption

Welcome To Le Jungle > Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N Roses

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As you might know, there’s 2 things we love a lot: 1) using references in our songs 2) giving away things. Let’s combine!

We will send a discography package (CD/LP) + T-shirt to the person finding the most intended references in our songs. You may include songs from all our albums, using both musical and lyrical references. 2 examples: Song title “Welcome to Le Jungle” refers to the Guns ‘n Roses song “Welcome to the Jungle” (who would’ve thought?!). The intro of “The Dog Ate It!” is a musical quote from Adhesive’s “Dividing Lines”.

You can find all our music and lyrics on our website.
Please email us your references, admission closes on April 1st, no joke!

So, Bring It On!

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In 2009, when only Frankie Stubbs knew how to play acoustic punk, we released our acoustic endeavor “Pull the Plug”. This EP is currently sold out. But when screen printing the covers back then we fucked up. 38 times. Therefor we have 38 EPs left without a cover. To solve this we made a rainbow of new/limited/one-off covers (are you feeling the Sochi reference?). You can now order one of those last 38 copies at our webstore. If you have a preference for a color combination let us know and we can see if we have anything matching.

Following up on our “limited-edition-one-of-a-kind-re-release” of our acoustic EP Pull the Plug, we also put it online at our youtube channel. Make sure to subscribe to that channel to stay up to date with all music and videos we release over there.

The Pull the Plug EP was recorded with Nico of XPZ Sound in our rehearsal space of that time: my (Willem) parents’ place. Yvo plays acoustic guitar in stead of bass. It was released in 2009 by our friends from Shield Recordings, No Reason Records and Sums Records. The original 3-way PINK artwork by Gijs!; 200 PINK EPs, 300 black.

Benefit of the Doubt  and  Because We Can  were previously released as normal versions, while these were the first (and only acoustic) appearances of  The New Jew  and  The Hunt Is On, later featured as amplified songs on “Start from Scratch!”.

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