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Posted in To Do | music on August 2, 2008
the 20th Anniversary of the Tompkins Square Riot
On the night of Aug. 6, more than 100 people showed up at the park to protest the curfew, drinking beer, lighting firecrackers and carrying banners with slogans like "Gentrification is Class War." Dozens of officers watched on foot and horseback, and around 12:30 a.m., some in the crowd began throwing bottles at the police.August 2: Tompkins Square Riot Reunion:From then until sunrise, officers battled with the crowd in and around the park, with the protesters hurling bottles and other debris, and the police using nightsticks and riot gear. Forty-four people were injured, 13 of them police officers. [NY Times]
Planned Collapse, Absurd System, Black September, Rabia, Perdition, Hipster Holocaust, Casa de Chihuahua, D60, Oogle Orphanage
August 3: Tompkins Square Riot Reunion:
Leftover Crack, Death Mold, Team Spider, DisAssociate, Witch Hunt, Star Fucking Hipsters, Hungry Marching Band
Both shows are free in Tompkins Square Park this weekend - East 7th Street + Avenue A, from 1:00pm - 7:00pm.
Posted on August 2, 2008 1:55 PM
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I'm sure everyone will get along well.
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 3:29 PM
hipster holocaust? is that the new band from the commenters on brooklyn vegan? i liked what i heard on the myspace page.
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 3:43 PM
Now we're celebrating the anniversary of a bunch of jobless idiots that got drunk and injured a bunch of police officers? WTF.
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 3:56 PM
"Tompkins Square is everywhere, it's written on the walls..."
-CV
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 4:02 PM
"Ever since the Allies bombed the Axis into submission, Western civilization has had a succession of counter-culture movements that have energetically challenged the status quo. Each successive decade of the post-war era has seen it smash social standards, riot and fight to revolutionize every aspect of music, art, government and civil society.
But after punk was plasticized and hip hop lost its impetus for social change, all of the formerly dominant streams of “counter-culture” have merged together. Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the “Hipster.”
An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society."
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 5:10 PM
leftover crack FTW
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 5:45 PM
there's no such thing as leftover crack
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 6:43 PM
Missing Foundation! The Party's Over!
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 6:43 PM
How was Hipster Holocaust?
http://www.myspace.com/hipsterholocaust
How will Star Fucking Hipsters be tomorrow?
http://www.myspace.com/starfuckinghipsters
Posted by Anonymous | August 2, 2008 7:49 PM
If this same thing happened today you would see a lot of tased hipsters... maybe some tear gas, plus it would all be on youtube minutes later.
Posted by Paul | August 3, 2008 9:09 AM
The punks may have won the battle twenty years ago, but the gentrifiers have won the war.
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2008 9:21 AM
^ as they always do.
leftover crack.
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2008 9:36 AM
The next front in the gentrification battle: Newark
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2008 9:47 AM
The Hungry March Band doesn't have a single original member in its line-up. Those phonies have some nerve to even use the name.
Posted by Satiated | August 3, 2008 10:11 AM
Rabia slayed Sat. even with the little PA, great punk rock! Fun day...
Posted by jim | August 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Satiated needs to get a clue.
Posted by ginohh | August 4, 2008 2:24 PM
I thought I was playing tuba with German Sex Toy, you mean that was HMB? Shocking! I can't believe they stooped so low.
Posted by Bo Duckley | August 4, 2008 5:00 PM
Poor people suck.
Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2008 5:19 PM