The riff master, the demo god, the metaphorical, spiritual, and literal STYG dad - Chris Rawson. We talk Chris's experience as a teacher during the pandemic and how his time under quarantine led him to explore new musical pathways. 

We sit down with the man, the myth, the bass player, STYG's resident international man of mystery, Andrew Rose. 

A constellation of episodes reflecting on STYG's purpose and our return to strength. 

"Care is a form of political warfare."

-Audre Lorde

SET THE WORLD ABLAZE

NOTHING GOES TO WASTE

NOW I UNDERSTAND

MORE OF US THAN THEM

Now streaming everywhere here: https://smarturl.it/STYG_MOUTT

Rev Left Radio Episode on Chile: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/chile

Blood in my Eye: https://redyouthnwa.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/george_l-_jackson_blood_in_my_eyebook4you-org.pdf

@Queersocialism thread on elections: https://mobile.twitter.com/queersocialism/status/1282797189648060429

Oh my god we're back again. 

I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. George and Josh relive a traumatic tour that is fun to reflect back on in a sadistic kind of way. 

I am eating from the trash can of Ideology all the time. The band started in 2003 believe it or not folks (haha), and 17 years in, we have evolved in thought and mind on a variety of topics and issues, and I think it's important to reflect on those sorts of things, because that's how we learn. Not idealistically through divine revelations, but through experience and perspective that shape our understanding and ideology. Our material conditions produce our culture and ideas, that then in turn influence and reinforce aspects of our life in a cyclical fashion, that is, until there is a rupture. Some old fuck once said "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness." So come on the journey with us.  

STYG was a part of the 2010 Thrash and Burn tour, which on first glance, might seem like an unremarkable tour, but it plays a very important role in STYG history, especially in relation to the Hope Division. 

"If we have shortcomings, we are not afraid to have them pointed out and criticized, because we serve the people. Anyone, no matter who, may point out our shortcomings. If he is right, we will correct them. If what he proposes will benefit the people, we will act upon it."