Domestic Threat – Government Waste
If you’re a bit of a history nerd, or have just caught the odd movie depicting Europe in the 1940s, you’re bound to be a little scared. Alternately, who is to say that this is not a change for the better and that all of us afraid of megalomaniac dictators aren’t just being manipulated. Perhaps, as some of the news outlets advise, we should just quietly step aside and let them go on with their business of making the world a better place. But will this place be any better for anyone other than themselves?
Fortunately, there’s plenty to distract our minds with, and it’s a luxury that the folks in the first part of the 20th Century back in Europe, didn’t quite have. In fact, you can probably just lock in your apartment today and subsist on a ration of Netflix comedies and food delivery. Losing patience, hope, and the energy to speak your mind has never been easier. In fact, I doubt that anyone will blame you.
Domestic Threat’s black-flag, hardcore-punk sound has been created to be the news outlet of those who want to protest recent political turns of events. “Government Waste,” is a quick, one-two punk-rock punch about foreign billionaires tasked with making cuts to the budget of the U.S. You may agree, or disagree with the message. But you’ll have to salute Domestic Threat’s willingness to do something about it all. In a world filled with propaganda financed by the top bucks, it’s good to know that some are still writing songs, coming up with slogans and printing fliers on their own dime.
The Jins – You’re Going Far
Nikola Tesla theorised about a weapon based on vibration. Like Archimedes’s giant mirrors meant to instantly burn any ships dumb enough to sail to Syracuse, this weapon was supposed to turn warfare into child’s play for whomever possessed it.
The fact that it’s all likely a sketch that helped born an experiment that launched a myth, isn’t all that important. For the sake of argument, let’s just remind ourselves that Tesla’s weapon could guarantee gigantic earthquakes by locking into the vibration of any object regardless of size.
While nobody’s terrorising city officials with this kind of weapon, concert halls need to be checked each time after a rock concert. It turns out that you get enough people pocked into a beat and tapping their toes and the walls come down.
But what happens when they go home? Maybe those vibrations still have a way of coming together and hitting the ground at the same time. Let’s hope it’s not a vibration as powerful as the alt-rock stomp of The Jins’s “You’re Going Far.” Resembling the soundtrack to some 90s revenge-comedy, but somehow more memorable than any of the ones you do know, The Jins dirty, catchy, fun rock n’ roll that put in the wrong hands could tear the house down.
