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Member Since5/4/2007
Band Websitehttp://revelationrecords.com
Band MembersWRITTEN & COMPILED BY
Norman Brannon

FOREWORD BY
Aaron Burgess

BOOK DESIGN BY
Daniel Rhatigan

AUTHOR INTERVIEW BY
Patrick West

PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Chris Toliver, Mark Beemer, John Mockus, Justin Borucki, Chrissy Piper, Brian Maryansky, Shawn Scallen, Tim Owen, Jeffrey Ladd, Adam Tanner, Joshua Kessler, Ulf Nyberg, Glenn Maryansky, Angela Boatwright, Dave Spataro, and Peter Beste
InfluencesCometbus, Suburban Voice, No Answers, Boiling Point, Sold Out, and the pre-computer cut-and-paste fanzine culture.
Sounds LikeFEATURING IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH:

Samiam
Into Another
Quicksand
Rage Against The Machine
Glen E. Friedman
Mike Judge
Sick Of It All
Elliott Smith
Ian MacKaye
Orange 9mm
Mouthpiece
Endpoint
Shelter
Rancid
Ressurection
Jawbox
Garden Variety
Stormy Shepherd
Dave Smalley
Snapcase
Sunny Day Real Estate
Chris Toliver
Farside
Shudder To Think

ALSO FEATURING BONUS MATERIAL FROM:

Lifetime
CIV
The Promise Ring
Agnostic Front
Seaweed
Cause For Alarm
Cap'n Jazz
Samuel
Gorilla Biscuits
Avail
Undertow
Record LabelRevelation
Type of LabelIndie


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   About The Anti-Matter Anthology

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For those who don't know, Anti-Matter was a fanzine published between 1993 and 1996 from a bedroom on the corner of East 10th Street and First Avenue in New York City. Anti-Matter was also a compilation album, released in 1996, that documented sixteen hardcore, post-punk, and indie bands who weaved the fabric of the music that featured prominently in the fanzine. On November 6, 2007, for the first time ever, Anti-Matter will become a book: The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader will be issued by Revelation Publishing, the literary sister of Revelation Records.

On this site, you'll find updates on the book's release schedule, a weblog with practical announcements and random stories from the era, related event schedules, and a safe place to debate the important things — like Split Lip vs. Chamberlain. Or "Can We Win" vs. "Give It Up."

Anti-Matter was conceived and created by Norman Brannon — in 1993, a former guitarist for Ressurection, 108, and Shelter. Upon its demise, Brannon went on to form Texas Is The Reason and New End Original, in addition to working as a DJ and running an independent dance label called Primal Records. His work has been published in Alternative Press, Punk Planet, Ego Trip, Soma, and VIBE, among others. Brannon is currently working on new music, as well as a second book of short-story nonfiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and online at Nervous Acid. Also, he apologizes to anyone who bought Fuzzy or Inch records at his behest.



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FOREWORD BY AARON BURGESS


One of the first rules you're taught in journalism school is objectivity. One of the first things you learn as a rock writer, and one of the only truths that torments you throughout your career as such, is that objectivity stinks. I mean, who besides the most reactionary, humorless fanatic really wants to read an "objective" record review? (You know: "Band X has been making music for Y years. Band X's new release, Really Important Record, does this and that. It also does this and this and this...") What rock writer with real human emotions — and not the High Fidelity-sort of pseudo-emotions one gets from memorizing album credits — has ever conducted an objective interview?

These are rhetorical questions, of course. You need only look as far as the rock magazines on your shelves, the rock sites in your Web browser, to find page after page of mannered, noncommittal stories about nothing: Puff pieces exalting the "kewl" new sounds of rock's flavor of the minute. Illiterate rants penned by sycophants who think all a critic needs are ears, a press release, and a PC (the music's always secondary, of course). Very rarely today do you find a rock writer whose work tears into the guts of the matter, whose questions get beyond the music's surface to examine the real human issues lying underneath. Not the well-worn issues of personality and decadence, either, but The Big Issue of what it means to be a frightened human being truly living on this big, lonely planet.

I know what you're thinking, and you're right — sort of. Most modern rock bands don’t examine these kinds of issues, so most rock writers don’t have to dig deeply to get the story. But in hardcore and punk rock, the genres on which Norman Brannon's fanzine Anti-Matter was built, thousands of intelligent, motivated musicians have long been examining the kinds of existential issues others have put on the backburner. True, a lot of punk musicians are young, and young people by nature are bound to have stupid existential crises. In this area Norm was no different. But there is one crucial area in which Norm broke from his peers in the punk zine community, an issue around which he lives even now that his tastes have shifted toward pop and electronic music: Norm was, and is, a seeker. He interviewed bands for Anti-Matter not because he liked their music (although he did), but because he found something intangible in their music that described how he was feeling, and he wanted their help in understanding just what that "something" was.

Norm wrote what he did in Anti-Matter because he had to; the fanzine's contents reflected the conflict that was unfolding inside the writer. He often asked questions that were embarrassing to read (many of which are reprinted in this book); but even in his most naïve line of questioning he could articulate the issues that he — and, invariably, his readership — was facing at that point. There's something beautiful and natural about even the most earnest writing in Norm's old interviews. When today's younger punk writers adopt similar styles, their work seems forced. Even at its most amateurish, Norm's writing never had that quality.

Which isn't to say that Norm launched Anti-Matter because he wanted to be regarded as "seminal" in the field of punk fanzine editing. The zine's content flowed naturally, innocently, and it mirrored the direct links between the music, Norm's heart, and Norm's head. The hype about Norm's being "seminal" would come later, much to his dismay, from the author's admirers — most of whom, unfortunately, would continue to miss the point in their own work.

Norm once said of Anti-Matter, "I was basically trying to get [my interview subjects] to say the things I was thinking in my head — partially because I just wanted to know that I wasn't a freak, and partially because I wanted other people to know they weren't freaks, either." With that noted, I think there’s just one reason why Anti-Matter is no longer publishing — and it has nothing to do with music, advertising concerns, or scene politics. Norm found the truth he was seeking, and he learned to take that crucial next step.

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John Doe

John Doe



Apr 27 2009 4:02 PM

Thanks for the add and even more THANKS for the book!!!
Greetings from Hamburg
Blue Eyes

Blue Eyes Brown Eyes



Apr 27 2009 9:17 PM

Thanks for the add! You are awesome!!!!!!
Valerie

Valerie



Apr 29 2009 6:12 PM

Thanks for the add!
Danger Field

Danger Field



Mar 31 2009 2:38 AM

hell fuckin yea - NYHC
reece

reece



Feb 17 2009 8:52 PM

Sorry for any confusion, the tickets did NOT go on sale today... Official advance ticket release date is this Thursday Feb 19th. Again, available at any ticketmaster outlet and/or Birdy's Box Office.
Thx! - Curtis




an evening with
Split Lip / Chamberlain

May 2nd 2009 / Indianapolis, IN
at Birdy’s 2131 E.
71st 46220

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pierre

pierre



Jan 3 2009 6:46 PM

new post: the rise and fall of hardcore.
http://loveisbuilding. blogspot. com/
QUEERFISH

QUEERFISH



Nov 29 2008 2:55 PM

thanks for the add
pierre

pierre



Oct 22 2008 6:27 PM

http://loveisbuilding. blogspot. com/
NIEMAND

NIEMAND



Sep 29 2008 10:33 AM

Thank you for the add!!!
Threadbare

Threadbare



Jul 2 2008 1:26 AM

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Rocket Fuel

Rocket Fuel



Feb 2 2008 11:41 PM

What's up?

I wanted to let you know that I review the Anti Matter Anthology in the latest episode of my podcast, Rocket Fuel. You should check it out!

rocket.podomatic.com
myspace.com/rocketfuelpodcast
Ressurection

Ressurection



Jan 2 2008 3:56 AM

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Within months the sound and ideologies that dominated the hardcore scene from the mid 80’s into early 1990 had literally collapsed as if an entire scene had “grown up” and gave in all at once. Looking back it should have come as no surprise. A scene that was predicated on being an individual had become as pathetically uniform as the world it claimed to disdain. It died because it no longer had a pulse.

In early 1991 a few friends decided that sound, feeling and emotion was more important than mere memories and that ideals didn’t need to be confined to the sounds of the past. There were no goals, no strategies and no need to over think what could be. Ressurection was noise and feeling.

In the summer of 2008 Deathwish Inc. will release a 19-song discography entitled, I am not: The Discography, containing remixes by Kurt Ballou of Godcity Studios as well as a few covers and original recordings.

Click here to check out the Ressurection MySpace to hear the remix of Culture and for further news on the discography.
Justin!

Justin Schwier



Dec 5 2007 4:52 AM

Picked up my copy tonight!
Manual Dexterity Music Zine

Manual Dexterity Music Zine



Dec 3 2007 9:17 PM

Hey Norm, thanks for doing the interview for the newest issue of Manual Dexterity. Hop on over to our website and download a copy.
Alicia

Alicia



Nov 30 2007 2:50 PM

First, I got to see Gorilla Biscuits, then Texas is the Reason and now a Snapcase Reunion. I can now die a happy girl now. Thanks, Norm!
lenny zimkus

lenny zimkus



Nov 28 2007 1:50 AM


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Guav DNA

Guav DNA



Nov 27 2007 11:00 PM

It's pretty hard to verbalize how stoked I was seeing Supertouch again, and Snapcase reminded me why they were one of my favorite bands 10 years ago.

I only took pictures of Snapcase—and really only managed to get pictures of Daryl and Jon—but I got some good shots I think.

Click the photo to see them:

Snapcase
Saint Catherine Collective

Gianluca Perata



Nov 27 2007 5:28 PM

Amazing Show on saturday!!..it was awesome to take so a long trip from Italy to watch great bands, meet good people and have fun for a great cause!!
Thank you!!
ldbergeron

ldbergeron



Nov 27 2007 2:53 AM

Sunday night pics of 108, Supertouch, and Snapcase up at

www.flickr.com/photos/ldbergeron
http://www.harjitsgill.com

http://www.harjitsgill.com



Nov 26 2007 6:37 AM

can someone who was at the show sunday night please tell us in cali what happened????:)
CRYPTOPHER

CRYPTOPHER



Nov 25 2007 7:52 PM

THANK YOU FOR LAST NIGHT!!!!!!It was AMAZING!!!!!!!!
keith

keith



Nov 25 2007 8:41 AM

i bet sat was so crazy but tonight is gonna crazy to i can't wait im so excited for this show, its gonna be amazing
Forrest Love

forrest Love



Nov 24 2007 12:04 AM

It's on like fucking donkey kong tomorrow!!!
Been waiting too long for this..
Todd

Todd



Nov 21 2007 2:57 AM

i also have extra tickets for the Saturday show (people cancelled on me). hit me up if you are looking to go. (as of now, i have 2).
$teve

$teve



Nov 16 2007 11:03 PM

picked up the book today. great stuff except i would have loved some other zine stuff thrown in there besides just the interviews. good thing i have all the original zines anyway-ha
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