Thanks ABC No Rio and everyone who came out to make our first NYC show in a long time great Thanks especially to Bunnyrat and Iconcide -- excellent show.

If you couldn't make it, here's the setlist (thanks Jon), including 5 new songs that are working their way towards completion (Cassandra, Smoke Break, Greed, Rats, Faux). .

Stay tuned, more to come...

Nice.

Our first time in New York in a looong time... Also on the bill:
ICONICIDE
BUNNYRAT
PUBLIC DISTURBANCE

It's true! BLOWBACK will be playing at ABC No Rio in NYC on Saturday Dec. 5.

ABC No Rio is a longstanding DIY performance space on the Lower East Side (156 Rivington Street
between Clinton & Suffolk) and the Saturday punk matinees are awesome. We've wanted to play one forever and it finally worked out.

We'll be trying out quite a few new songs in the works so hope to see you all there. Show should be between 3-7pm. More to come...

Check out the new review of Drug War from Profane Existence...

Was there not a band from Japan called BLOW BACK? Well this isn't them, these guys are from DC and boy do they fucking rock. Four songs that bring back memories of early DOA (at their best) and MDC (circa Smoke Signal period, one that I love) and this little record is just fantastic from start to finish. Great songs, nifty riffage and you can just feel the anger and passion in every song. The three songs that are in English are politically charge and executed in a very convincing manner where they will have you shaking your fist and dancing at the same time. Looking like one of my fave 7"s this year so far. (MH)

In case you've been wondering what we're up to lately, we got together at One World Studios in DC and started to work on a new set of songs. An album is starting to take shape -- the demos sound great, generally loud and annoyed. Hope to have more updates soon...

We have finally made the Drug War 7" available in the form music was born for, the MP3. Throw out that rusty turntable and download some BLOWBACK at the following digital music hubs:
- Lala
- Amazon MP3
- iTunes (Apple fascist scum)

http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

The police our friends - at least the members of LEAP - Law Enforcement Againt Prohibition. They have witnessed first-hand the devastating human consequences of drug probition. They have the courage to listen to their consciences. And they refuse to continue risking their lives and ruining the lives of others to feed a money-making machine built on human suffering. Let's give props to these cops - as well as the many prosecutors and other law enforcement agents in LEAP brave enough to rise up against prohibition.

Insightful Op-Ed on the colossal failure of The War on Drugs and the current political climate favoring policies based on science and common sense over the knee-jerk reactionary drug policies of the past 40 years since not-a-crook Nixon unilaterally declared a violent war against a medical problem.

Drugs Won the War (New York Times, 6/13/09)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html?_r=5

We just put all of the song lyrics in a new section of the site -- now not only can you read them but write your comments on each song page and say what you think.

We will probably regret this later -- but have at it.

The new lyrics page is HERE!