I will no longer be updating The Art of Insurrection. Enjoy the material uploaded on Mediafire while it lasts, and long live democracy and freedom! Cheers!

"Jewelry" by Micachu: (8.2) One of my new favorites, Mica's freshman album is a chaotic jungle of found sounds, synthesizers, and shifting rhythms, yet it is always in control and comes back together. Highlights are "Sweetheart", "Golden Phone", and "Curly Teeth". (Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?ydfwokh5ygj).

"Third" by Portishead: (9.1) Portishead was quickly becoming one of my favorites bands before I left Springfield, and this (their third album, if the title didn't give it away) album shattered my previous thoughts about the band. It took a couple listens, but it came around. The songs start out frustrated and lack-luster, but just as the song is about to close everything comes together for twenty or thirty seconds of magic. (Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?casz7gn75m9kz7x).

"People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World" by Andrew Jackson Jihad: (8.7) What can I say, I've seen this band live twice and it's the gushiest people-love folk punk in existence. They're slightly more optimistic, but otherwise could easily pass for The Smiths of our generation. (Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?je20ih3jrze)

"Purse Seine" by Blackbird Raum: (8.1) This was truly a sound that I'd always wanted to hear, but could never find, and then one day I stumble across this California folk punk group. The winnder in this album is hands down "Ars Groetia". (Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?o2hjmw44wfz)

"Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust" by Sigur Rós: (9.2) Another band that I've been listening to for a number of years, and just like Portishead, when I heard this release I had to completely reconsider everything I'd known about them. For once their songs had been given life, and excites melancholy.

"Nice, Nice, Very Nice" by Dan Mangan: (9.4) This is not the kind of music I'd ever find myself falling in love with, and Dan Mangan is just a lovable musician with real talent! It's definitely the honesty in his songs that captured me, and paired with that perfect indie-meets-country sound. I haven't had a chance to really listen to his new stuff, but it didn't sound exciting. (Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?jfwbzwrqlyucpur)

"Assemble the Aviary" by Dovekins: (8.6) A Boulder band, these kids really put together a solid album with this one. There are some sounds and songs that just don't interest me, but the album explores a handful of sounds, many of which are very interesting.

"Salvation is a Deep Dark Well" by The Builders and the Butchers: (9.0) Their self-titled album was amazing, and this one was simply something out of this world, or rather something that could've been the score to Cohen Brothers' True Grit. Highlights of this album (I'll limit myself to 3): "In the Branches", "Vampire Lake", and "Devil Town" (though most people would probably put "Barcelona" in their top 3). (Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?zymykkb20nw)

Files Removed from Mediafire

The folks over at New Prejudice distro (Mark Smith, specifically) took the liberty of removing albums on a number of music blogs, but more specifically only albums which they sell. If you'd like the continued sharing of anarcho-collectivist punk music to thrive as it should, then stay away from the profiteers over at New Prejudice.

The Pine Hill Haints - Those Who Wander

1. You Will Never See Morning
2. Merry Widows of Joe Cain
3. My Heroes Have Always Been Wolves
4. Don't Wait for Six Strong Men to Carry You to Church
5. I Ride and Old Paint
6. All My Rowdy Friends are Dead
7. Last of the Natchez Shakers
8. Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
9. Ol' Suzanah / Camptown Races
10. I Never Will Be There
11. If You Don't Keep Score You'll Never Lose
12. Banshee's Wail
13. Goodnight Irene

A very solid Haints album! It has all the right fixings with a bit of extra trim that's always surprising. This is some of their earlier work, preceding their more publicised albums "Ghost Dance" and "To Win or To Lose". If you don't know the Haints, I highly recommend them.

Genre: Alt Country, Folk Punk
Year: 2004
Country: USA

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Barefoot Surrender - 4 Shots EP

1. Forgot My Name
2. Gal Who Made You Strong
3. Laredo
4. Sky Burnin' Red

Genre: Folk Punk
Year: 2009?
Country: USA

This album is a MUST HEAR. Great group of kids from Nashville, TN. Banjo, washboard, guitar, mandolin, washtub bass... what's not to love in a traveling, street performing folk punk band with heavy old-timey influence? Photo and album courtesy of Heart Full of Napalm. They have a new album out as well; details on how to order are on their website.

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Utah Phillips - We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years

1. The Boss
2. We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
3. Sheep & Goats
4. The Timberbeast's Lament
5. Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
6. The Lumberjack's Prayer
7. Mr. Block
8. The Preacher and the Slave
9. The Popular Wobbly
10. Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
11. Where the Fraser River Flows
12. Bread and Roses
13. Joe Hill
14. Union Burying Ground
15. The Two Bums
16. Halleluja, I'm a Bum!
17. Solidarity Forever
18. There is Power in a Union

Genre: Protest Folk
Year: 1984
Country: USA

The man himself who stood up to bosses, foremen, strike breakers, police, and all other forms of abusive hierarchy.

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The RAG Issues 2 & 3 (Zine)

Great zines put out by the RAG anarcha-feminist collective in Dublin, Ireland. Get connected with feminist and anarchist issues locally and internationally.

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Primitive Toothcare (Zine)

Wonderful guide. Toothpaste is an utter waste of money. Refined sugars are shit. All you need is nature. (WARNING! May contain a bunch of "hippy shit")

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Чернозём - Паводок

1. Романс
2. МаМаМа
3. Налегке
4. Паводок
5. Нет Дома
6. Серенада
7. Голько
8. Если бы мы Снали
   
9. Тюмень
10. Мы Радаем Вниз
11. Памяти Кручёнык
12. Антисанитария
13. Над Заборами
14. БП
15. Ненавсегда
16. Паводок

Genre: Anarcho-Punk, Avant Garde
Year: 2004
Country: Russia

Pronounced "Chernozyom"... I don't really know how to describe this band. They're sort of the closest thing I've found in the Russian punk scene to anarcho-punk, yet they maintain a very obscure, avant garde quality to them. I actually don't know what to call them... Indie doesn't exactly feel fitting, but neither do other genres.

I highly suggest giving track 13 a listen to. It's the song that really won my heart with this band (and to note it's not the original track 13 on the album... it's a cleaner version and maybe a newer version of the song). Also, thanks to AntiPunk for providing this album!

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Clusterfux - Thrash Mongrel

More from the local legends of Denver thrash, this time with less of the shitty record-ripping quality as the other album.

1. Sign of the Times
2. Making Fuck
3. Flourishing
4. Pictures When You Pee
5. A Toast
6. Neonchrist
7. Usurper
8. Dancing With Death
9. Hey Charlie!
10. The Mongrel
11. Untitled 11
12. Untitled 12

Genre: Thrash
Year: 2003
Country: USA

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Pirates R Us - Songs of Modern Piracy

I've been trying to find this album for years now. I highly recommend it if you enjoy pirate shanties, folk music, or amusing music about pirates. Perhaps there is a certain level of irony in pirating their music...

1. The MP3 Waltz
2. The Kotzebue Shuffle
3. The Ballad of Cap'n Crunch
4. Can You, Kevin Bacon?
5. KYAR Pirate Radio
6. Fuego
   

Genre: Avant Garde
Year: 2006
Country: USA

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Alpinist - Minus.Mensch

Amazing neo-crust band. Absolutely wonderful. Shamelessly copying this from Ya Can't Go Home (thanks y'all, check them out some time).

1. Nighttime Poet Daytime Dead Schalterhygiene
2. A is for Army of Slaves
3. Rost
4. 2te Klasse Bahnabteil
5. Amuse Yourself to Death
6. Delta Flood of Ignorance
7. The Charme of Dominating
8. From Groveling to Running in Less Than a Second
9. This Song Will Not Save Your Life
10. Outro

Genre: Neo-Crust
Year: 2009
Country: Germany

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Ива Нова - S/T

The Russian incarnation of folk-punk is much different than the American styles, so even though these girls kick ass, they may not be the type of folk-punk you are used to. Their sound is similar to their former band, Бабслэй, but Ива Нова (Iva Nova) is more produced and has a more serious sound. Again, this album may be pretty different than what you're used to, but it's fairly fantastic!

1. The Wife
2. The Moon Has Risen
3. Come What May
4. When I Go Down
5. Aunt Marusia
6. The Quirly
7. The Steppe Song
8. Poor Boy
9. Lullaby
10. Countryside Corrida
11. The White Half-Moon
12. Young Cossak
13. Friday
14. Further Than Far
15. Rodopian Song
16. Springtime
17. V.I. Fomushkin

Genre: Folk Punk
Year: 2003
Country: Russia

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Бабслэй - Елдырина слобода

Very interesting all women folk-punk band from Russia. I've learned that Russian incarnations of folk-punk are very, very different than American incarnations, as these girls sound like a mixture of Gogol Bordello, Bjork, and a kind of World/Inferno Friendship Society circus-esque music style. I'm pretty sure that the story goes that they broke up and a few of them reformed into Iva Nova (Ива Нова). Note that I may not have rewritten the track names correctly from their English-phonetic spelling, so any of you Russian-speakers out there want to make any spelling corrections, by all means please do :)

1. Огуси
2. В Бору Сосна...
3. Пташечка
4. Солнушко
5. У Ворот
6. Садочек
7. Холмогоры
8. Частушка
9. Говнорер
10. Свадба
11. Варенка
12. На Печи
13. Тма
14. Весточка
15. Танго

Genre: Folk Punk, Avante Garde
Year: 2001
Country: Russia

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The Widow's Bane - S/T

These guys are a wonderful small Denver-area band. They call themselves "zombie polka". Quite fantastic and I definitely recommend giving them a listen! As always, you can support them by purchasing their "disposable goods" and seeing them live, when possible.

1. The March
2. The Ballad of Dead-Eye Daryl
3. Haul Away Boys!
4. Wormwood Waltz in C Minor
5. Rusty Road
6. Sick to Me Gullet
7. The Devil's Son
8. The Pledge
9. Forsake the Boy
10. For Sentimental Reasons
11. Abilene
12. Burns
13. The March (Reprise)

Genre: Avant Garde
Year: 2009
Country: USA

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Parasytic - Hymn

1. Already Dead
2. Black Blood
3. Prophesies
4. Spiral
5. Midnight Sun
6. Liberation
7. Sudden End
8. Mad Men
9. Who's to Blame?
10. No Solution
11. Hogs
12. Animal Sacrifice
    

Genre: Hardcore / Thrash
Year: 2008
Country: USA

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Meisce - Bored of the Dance

1. When the Guns Have All Been Fired
2. Ghosts of the Coal Mine
3. Shipwrecked in a Bottle
4. Lock Me in the Nick
5. Grey Sunday
6. Gypsy Fiddle
7. Sean Reilly
8. A Virgins Demise

Genre: Celtic / Folk Punk
Year: 2007
Country: USA

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Mutiny - Co-op Brewery

1. Free Soup Daily
2. Eighty Punks and an Old P.A.
3. Brisbane Bandits
4. Abbotsford Co-Operative Brewery
5. Jumping the Rattler
6. Convict Rum Song
7. Digging for Gold
8. Dirty Jig

Genre: Folk Punk
Year: 2006
Country: Australia

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Mutiny - Bag of Oats

Fantastic Celtic and sea-shanty influenced folk punk band from Australia. These kids are relentless in their rifts, and all of their albums promise a great listen!

1. Bag of Oats
2. William Jones
3. Shot Tower
4. Struggle Town
5. Two Up Alley
6. Police Strike Riot

Genre: Folk Punk
Year: 2002
Country: Australia

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Erik Petersen - Bellingham & Philadelphia

I don't have the portion of this album featuring Robert Blake, sorry. It's only half of a split. Erik Petersen is the lead vocals and guitar in Mischief Brew. Here's his solo work. Straight folk punk, right off the rails.

If you have the full album, you should let me know :D

1. Every Town Will Celebrate
2. Olde Tyme Mem'ry
3. Boycott Me!
4. Dirty Pennies
5. Liberty Unmasked
6. Farewell, Good Fellows

Genre: Folk Punk
Year: 2003
Country: USA

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