FRIED E/M - "Modern World" LP 1992 through Black Market Records

1992 through Black Market Records

so it's not surprising that nearly a quarter century after his first recorded work in the Rip he would start up a full new band

whether it was the vastness of the Princeton Record Exchange

Patrick has been blasting out music on his own as well as putting on shows for touring acts in the Western Massachusetts area under the Autonomous Battleship and Northern Routes monikers

FRIED E/M - "Modern World" LP 1992 through Black Market RecordsFried E M Modern World LP (Lumpy, 2020) Tied w Oily Boys for favorite punk record of the year. Actually, nah not even a tie. It's this. Scathing and gimmickless spike rock from the mean streets of St. Lou. I played the fuck out of this one in 2020 "POGO PUNK FOR THE SOCIETALLY INEPT 11 song debut LP from the Fried. Just as The Germs, Zero Boys, and The Stalin before us, we too believe in a razor thin line between punk and hc. We spent 3 years