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If you need any more proof
that the screamo scene is the part of the current scene where the
true underground punk spirit of bands like Crass lives on, just
check out this compilation. Waking Records owner teaches
at a middle school in the Bronx where the arts are criminally underfunded.
The situation is so bad that the school had to cut art education
back to only one of the middle school's three grades (7th if you're
wondering; 6th and 8th graders are simply out of luck). So what
does Evan do? Well, he contacts a bunch of excellent bands and has
them contribute songs to a compilation to benefit the art program
at his school. Now, benefit compilations are hardly anything special
these days; labels like Deep Elm and Fat Wreck have recently come
out with comps just like this. However, instead of having two previously
unreleased songs from the two bands who actually care about the
issue and the same tracks that appear over and over on every compilation
from the other bands, most of the bands contributing to Evan's comp
actually write a song about how fucked up today's school systems
are. In addition, Evan gets a couple of really great underground
artists to give the comp packaging that will leap off the shelves
and into the hands of the impressionable young screamo kids out
there.
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