When I moved away from San Diego for the first time, I put this whole CD on a mixtape and that mixtape’s name was “PUNK” (written in jagged letters with black Sharpie across the clear gray plastic shell of a Maxell 90-minute tape). I had just started going to shows a year or two before, MORE…
One of the ways I dealt with the immensely heavy nature of this year was to write a literary mystery novel. I wrote a chapter a week and it was published on the Three One G site as it came. Last week, the final chapter went up. You can read Who Are the Mystery Girls? MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Novel in Serial Form Chapter 13 of 13, Conclusion By Adam Gnade Gabby dropped to her knees on the carpet and Agnes walked backward until she felt the rough stucco of the wall touch her shoulder blades. Of course, thought Agnes, it all made sense—the money, the new car, MORE…
This week is jam-packed with release date anniversaries for Three One G bands. Starting December 1st, and running until the 7th, there are 15 separate releases celebrating birthdays. All deserve your attention. All deserve your love. They are as follows: DEC 1st 12/1/1998 Jenny Piccolo’s Lowest Common Denominator 7” EP First up we have 13 MORE…
Planet B’s debut 7”, Wrong Utopia, released five years ago today, is a mean, rhythmic, forward-pushing document of modern punk-gone-electronic. With elements of hiphop’s sampler orchestration and classic sci-fi film scores, this record gave us some of Three One G’s catchiest shit ever—battle hymns echoing across a scorched landscape, dance music with a sense of MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Novel in Serial Form Chapter 12 of 13, Gabby Martinez and Agnes McCanty By Adam Gnade Agnes knelt next to Gabby in the corner of the living room and touched her shoulder, held her shoulder, shook it, said her name, said it once more just as Gabby’s eyes dragged MORE…
Sometimes I think the part of my brain that understands pop music was destroyed in an accident I don’t remember having. I’ll hear a record and I’ll tell someone (a friend, a stranger, whomever) to listen to it because it’s catchy or good or interesting and they’ll be like, “What are you TALKING about? This MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Novel in Serial Form Chapter 11 of 13, Salem Court and the Heart of Agnes McCanty By Adam Gnade Sometimes the person doing you the most damage is the one you least expect, the one you’ve forgotten about or held too close and believed too much in or pushed MORE…
Who Are the Mystery Girls? A Novel in Serial Form Chapter 10 of 13, Jason Bourne and the Elf By Adam Gnade Driving back down the Balboa hill under the dull yellow streetlamps, Agnes told Marigold and Norma her suspicions and what she planned to do, and then no one spoke as they drove west, MORE…
Sometimes in moments of uncertainty, violent art will give you the strength you need to persevere. As I write this, we will either get a racist, fascist pig for a president or a limp, gray, dishrag no one I know cares about or is excited about or puts much faith in. So, Get Hustle—the rasping, MORE…