Best of all time? Myles knows how to set the bar for a new feature. Whatevs, I think this song by myspace of the week alumni The Units is pretty great. Mission is a humorous ode to, you guessed it, the mission: burritos, marijuana, the …um… fashion, and humongous boom boxes. Its the closest thing to a party song on the album, and the chorus makes me smirk every time I hear it “The Mission is bitchin’!/Mission I don’t take no ^%::&++!/Alright!” (note, that’s the band censoring itself). Honestly, the mission hasn’t changed too much in the twenty seven years that have passed from since the release of Digital Stimulation on 415 records.

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Damn people, just leave it in the ground. I don’t know why everybody has to reunite all the time and make us deal with your old music when there’s (supposedly) new music that should be being heard. I won’t get into who was good or who wasn’t good becuase when I take stock of how many of these reunion shows I’ve been to I realize I have no business complaining. Not that that ever stops me!

Crime, legendary San Francisco punks, reunites in their own difficult way this friday for a record release party celebrating their new, vinyl only, album, Exalted Masters. Thats right, vinyl only. How’s that for a music uprising, fuzz?

If you couldnt’ tell from what I wrote above, I’ll be there. I’ve always really liked Crime — ever since I realized they wrote my favorite song on one of my favorite Sonic Youth albums. (Sister, duh. Read the liners!) That or maybe I just like a guy in a cop uniform, I do respond to authority.

September 21, 7PM
SF Amoeba

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