What's your country been doing to you?

After the US presidential election in 2016, someone offered as consolation the prospect that at least we would get four years of great punk rock. But did we? I don't keep up with new artists as much as I used to, so maybe people have been making protest music (punk, hip hop, country, reggae, whatever) that has escaped my notice. 

Bandcamp Friday is coming: your recommendations are appreciated. I plan to pick up the new album by Atlanta band Warm Red, Decades Of Breakfast. Not a political band, but one that supports social justice movements while making kickass noise rock.

While we await the electoral outcome, I'm going back to San Francisco... specifically the SF punk scene the late 70's. America was a mess back then too. Here are 30 covers of songs originally recorded by The Avengers, Crime, DK's, Flipper, Lewd, Mutants, Negative Trend, No Alternative, Nuns, Sleepers, Tools, UXA, VKTMS, and others. 

Couldn't find any Offs covers. You'd think some ska punk band with a weak pun for a name (like Skantifa, or Skaronavirus) would be all over "My World" or "Die Babylon".

SF's Pushups are on Bandcamp -- both singles, plus a wealth of previously unreleased songs. "Global Corporation" and "Victims Of Terrorism" sound as timely as ever.  (Image created by Gee Vaucher.)