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Disaster Strikes "The Interrogation Sessions" 7" vinyl EP record on Alternative Tentacles Records (Virus 393), $5.00 US + $2.00 US shipping (covers Intn'l shipping)


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Disaster Strikes "Don't Spy on Me! " 100% Union-Made Tee Shirt,
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Disaster Strikes "Torture=Terror" 100% Union-Made Tee Shirt, Artwork by Amy Toxic,
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Disaster Strikes "Liberty Toast" Full-length LP-CD on Alternative Tentacles (Virus 354), $10.00 US + $2.00 US shipping (covers Intn'l shipping)



RESOURCES
Jobs with Justice
has a mission to improve working people's standards of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize.

Wal-Mart Watch
bridges the gap between individuals and community organizations concerned about Wal-Mart's unchecked growth and negative impact on our society.

The RiseUp Collective
provides mail, lists, and hosting for those working on liberatory social change.

Mirror Image, Inc.
is a unionized garment printing company located in Pawtucket, R.I. providing screen-printing services for bands and other clients. This is where Disaster Strikes shirts are printed. M.I. stock a wide variety of blank union-sewn shirts, hoodies, and more. M.I. employees are members of UAW Local 1596. Kick sweatshops out of hardcore! Ask for Rick and tell 'em Disaster Strikes sent you!

Change to Win
Seven unions and six million workers recently united in Change to Win to build a new movement of working people equipped to meet the challenges of the global economy. The way working people in America will obtain a decent standard of living is to unite together into unions.

Lucy Parsons Center
is a collectively-run radical book store and community center founded in 1969 and currently located in Boston's South End.

Prison Book Program

Literacy and access to reading materials are crucial for the personal, spiritual and political development of all people. With 2 million people locked up in our nation’s prisons and local jails, and with educational programming being drastically cut, the need for this organization has never been greater.

South End Press
Read. Write. Revolt.
South End Press is a nonprofit, collectively run book publisher with more than 250 titles in print.

Independent Media Center
is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

American Civil Liberties Union
If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled.

Democracy Now!
is a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show committed to bringing the voices of the marginalized to the airwaves on issues ranging from the global to the local.

Z Magazine/Z-Net
is a radical print and online periodical dedicated to resisting injustice, eliminating repression, and creating liberty. It addresses international relations, ecology, economics, gender, race, culture, politics, etc.

FAIR
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.

 

 EVENTS 
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DATE CITY VENUE BANDS DOORS
FRI
JUN 18
BOSTON, MA
(Jamaica Plain)
Midway Cafe
3496 Washington St.
Disaster Strikes, Ashers, The Rebel Spell, Payload, Cry Havoc, Brain Shivers, Colin & the Cancer 6:00 PM
18+
$8
SAT JUN 19 NEW YORK, NY ABC no RIO
156 Rivington St.
Disaster Strikes, Ashers, Iconocide 3:00 PM
AA
SAT JUN 19 PHILADELPHIA, PA Shore House Disaster Strikes, Ashers, Common Enemy 7:00 PM
AA
SUN
JUN 20
NEW YORK, NY Punk Island Fest @ Governor's Island Negative Approach, DOA, Blanks 77, Disaster Strikes, Ashers,  The Rebel Spell, Common Enemy, Star Fucking Hipsters, many more 11 AM
AA
MON
JUN 21
HARTFORD, CT Whitney House
217 South Whitney St.
Disaster Strikes, Ashers, Blastmat, Long Drop 7:00 PM
AA
$5
TUE
JUN 22
PROVIDENCE, RI The Clave Disaster Strikes, Ashers, Product of Waste, Brain Shivers 8:00PM
AA
WED JUN 23 HAVERHILL, MA Anchors Up
58 River St.
Disaster Strikes, Ashers, The Nasty, Hellhound AA
THU JUN 24 CLEVELAND, OH Peabody's Concert Hall Murphy's Law, Mustard Plug, Disaster Strikes, Ashers 7:00 PM
AA
$10
FRI
JUN 25
GRAND RAPIDS, MI The Cage Disaster Strikes, Ashers 6:00 PM
AA
$5
SAT
JUN 26
MADISON, WI Subvert City Disaster Strikes, Ashers, Pyroklast AA
SUN JUN 27 APPLETON, WI BFG House Disaster Strikes, Ashers 6:00 PM
AA
$5
MON
JUN 28
ST. PAUL, MN Eclipse Records
1922 University Ave. W
Disaster Strikes, Ashers, In Defence, Punx Attax, Diskast 6:00 PM
AA
$6
MON JUN 28 MINNEAPOLIS, MN Memory Lanes, 2520 26th Ave. S Disaster Strikes, Ashers, In Defence 9:00 PM 21+
WED
JUN 30
BREMERTON, WA The Charleston Theater
333 North Callow Ave.,
Disaster Strikes 6:00 PM
AA
$8
WED JUN 30
SEATTLE, WA The Morgue
5901 Airport Way South
Disaster Strikes,  Cyanide Destruct 8:00 PM
AA
THU
JUL 1
PORTLAND, OR Plan B
1305 SE 8th St.
RESIST, Disaster Strikes,  Puke 'n Rally 8:00 PM
21+
FRI
JUL 2
CHICO, CA Monstro's
628 W. Sacramento Ave.
Disaster Strikes 7:00 PM
AA
SAT
JUL 3
OAKLAND, CA Yer Hauz Disaster Strikes, Street Walker (Seattle), Abrupt, Officer Down, Hukaholix 7:00 PM
AA
SUN
JUL 4
FULLERTON, CA Riff Haus Studios
1150 E Valencia Drive
Disaster Strikes, Fiction Reform, Stuck on Stupid AA
MON JUL 5 TEMPE, AZ The Slurp
625 S. Smith Rd. #13
Disaster Strikes AA
TUE JUL 6 EL PASO, TX The Hideaway
1012 N. Raynor Street
El Paso, TX
Disaster Strikes, Pushback AA
WED JUL 7 SAN ANTONIO, TX AA Drive In
4103 W. Commerce St.
Disaster Strikes 7:00 PM
AA
$7
THU
JUL 8
AUSTIN, TX Red 7
611 E. 7th Street
Disaster Strikes, Revenants, Muhammedali 8:00 PM
AA
FRI
JUL 9
DALLAS, TX Phoenix Project Collective
406 S. Haskell, Dallas, TX 75223
Disaster Strikes, Stymie, Akkolyte, Division of Power AA
SAT
JUL 10
LAWRENCE, KS Jackpot Music Hall
943 Massachusetts St.
Disaster Strikes, Doubt, Pass-A-Fist 4:00 PM
AA
SAT JUL 10 KANSAS CITY, MO Bobby's Loft Disaster Strikes, Bombs Over Broadway, Doubt AA
SUN JUL 11 ST. LOUIS, MO Lemp Arts Center
3301 Lemp Ave.
Disaster Strikes,  Suburban Smash AA
WED JUL 14 BOSTON, MA
(Allston)
O'Briens Pub
3 Harvard Ave.
Prosthetics, Short Changed, Disaster Strikes, Ashers, Living Void 8:00 PM
21+
SAT AUG 14
BOSTON, MA
TBA
Wartorn, Pyroklast, Disaster Strikes
FRI AUG 27 MONTREAL, QC Decadent Squalor
3627 Nôtre-Dame O
Disaster Strikes, Prevenge AA

Click here for tour archive. (updated every few months)

 

CONTACT
Email: disasterstrikesemail(at)yahoo.com
Myspace: myspace.com/disasterstrikes
Twitter: twitter.com/DisasterStrike

Label: www.alternativetentacles.com

MUSIC

Click to play: "All for Nothing" by Disaster Strikes



UPDATES

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ABOUT DISASTER STRIKES
“Disaster Strikes = Municiple Waste + Dead Kennedys + I Object. Liberty Toast is pissed-off, politically-charged and, overall, ***** awesome! I suppose one good effect of the George W. Bush presidency is that a lot of great music is being created (much like during the Reagan era) as a reaction to his stupidity. If you like your punk punched full of politics without sounding preachy, this is a band for you.” - SLUG Zine

"Cross MDC with bands like Aus Rotten, React, and The Pist. Disaster Strikes crank out politically minded hardcore that draws from a variety of styles of the genre, from dual vocal delivery, Dead Kennedys-esque instrumentation on some songs, to Rollins style spoken/vocal delivery."
- RAZORCAKE Zine

"Imagine Black Flag, Fugazi and DRI in a political science class, and the Massachusetts-based punk/hardcore quintet DISASTER STRIKES, the bastard child of such a concoction, is born… Songs that hit such topics as workers' rights, misappropriation of funds and a general contempt for the government are all here. And the music, chaotic in a Suicidal Tendencies kind of way at times and paying much homage to the early crossover sounds of punk and hardcore, hits just as hard as an elbow to the jaw." - TOO MUCH Zine

"Truthful, politically charged punk and hardcore inspired by the likes of Echonochrist, DRI, Aus Rotten and Crass. Guest appearance by Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)!!"
- SmartPunk

"With a classic political punkcore sound not unlike Aus Rotten or The Unseen, Disaster Strikes has put out a powerful, raw and straining record with more integrity than is usually expected. With guest performances by the great Jello "I Own The Label" Biafra and DJ Molotov and production by Today is the Day Frontman Steve Austin, this is a teeth-on-the-curb, awareness-pushing record with some surprisingly catchy guitar hooks and empowering breakdowns."
- Origivation

"Man, I love the lyrics to this album. Every song contains essential messages that need to be heard more now than ever. Hell, these lyrics should be taught in American public schools as opposed to the naïve moral, economic, and military superiority that is all students get these days, as addressed in "No Chance." Naturally, Disaster Strikes tackles the major Alternative Tentacles issues, like the reality of Wal-Mart jobs, the lack of thought heading into Iraq, a call for union and general strike, pose-for-something-but-do-nothing Bono musician/celebrities, and general public disingenuousness and stereotyping, bolstered by an adaptation of Langston Hughes' poem "Ballad Of Skinner Boy" and the United Mine Workers' Constitution... Compared to what the Warped tour passes off as punk these days, Disaster Strikes is fucking legendary."
- Tiny Mix Tapes

"On listening to this offer I would say it leans more towards hardcore but what the fuck punk is hardcore, hardcore is oi. Liberty Toast is brutal, very hard full of noise annoys stuff ie in your face, but excellent riffs and very up my street. Track 4 'Mission Accomplished' is the stand out with the very legend of punk Jello Biafra making himself heard! Make no bones about it there are 11 tracks of hard hitting music is served up on a plate to you, just add English tea and sugar to serve up a very distinguished bland. The politics of the band are quite apparent throughout the tracks, but of course politics are only one part of the equation- having a heart in what you believe in does sing loud. The influences of Crass, Subhumans, Black Flag, Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys leads to an excellent cd."
- Punk & Oi In the UK

"It's like something TSOL or the Dead Kennedys would've done. It seems like a good sign since - thanks/no thanks to Blink-182-punk rock has been about girls"
- Philadelphia Weekly