Ever have a friend who is awesome in every way except for the fact that he’s into some super embarrassing thing?? Like, he’s the best dude ever and you love him, but sometimes it makes you cringe because he brings up LARPing, parkour, or how he’s building a rollerblade course in his backyard? Every time he mentions it you sharply inhale, wince and think to yourself “Bro… I love you but fuck… you’re not making it easy for me.”
For example, I consider FIGHT FAIR/SEEING MEANS MORE vocalist Alex Bigman one of my top bros. I just try to overlook his cringeworthy obsession with 90s screamo aka skramz. As someone who was actually there for all the vegan bake sales, basement benefit shows for Mumia, and debates over whether barcodes and CDs were ‘punk’ or not, I have no idea why a 25 year old rich Jew from the Bay Area suburbs would be into one of the most embarrassing eras of hardcore. But he’s my bro, and I’m always here for my bros!
Also check out Alex’s new online video property SkraMtv, featuring exclusive tracks like “Black Swag” by All Stars Of Screamo (f/t Loma Prieta, Comadre, and Ampere)
I know some of you guys are also into teh skramz, so check out his new project, the official SKRAM LIFE blog! He told me he wants to be Tumblrfamous (srs, those were his exact words), so please help him with his being Tumblrfamous goals for 2012. From his inaugural post, “WHAT DOES SKRAMZ MEAN TO ME?”
(dude from 3oh3! repping the skull split)
Skramz is not just a genre of music to me….Skramz is a LIFESTYLE. It’s an elite way of going about everyday life. Whether it’s watching obscure science fiction movies from the Soviet Union, wearing custom/limited dry denim from overseas, making fun of people not from California, or even as simple as getting shots of Agave tequila at the bar instead of vodka…I live, breathe, and BLEED skramz.
And that’s just SKRAM LIFE.
(me and steven init records repping the skull split)
When it comes down to it, the skramz lifestyle is great but the MUSIC is all that matters. Playing in skramz bands, collecting records, putting out zines, posting on CMHWAK, owning the SKULL SPLIT, and GOING TO SUPPORT LOCAL/TOURING DIY SKRAM BANDS. This is what’s important….everything else comes second.
SKRAMZ 2012
POST BACKED HARD
DAMN HARD!
skramz!!!
U SAY SKRAMZ I SAY TR00 CRABCORE
If I had teh Nocturnus time machine I’d take Bigman with me to the s hows I frequented in the early/mid 90s. I once saw Heroin open for Jawbreaker, Torches To Rome open for Will Haven and Focal Point (not even kidding) and many more oddball combos.
I hated the smell of the skrams dudes then, if they were more into surfing they might’ve been a little less insufferable.
screamo
indeed
This reminds me off something I was going to say in the last post but got sidetracked and never posted.
When you were saying how Aus seems like the funnest country with even srscore being fun… YOU WERE RIGHT! Even skramz is fun!
I was at a Loma Prieta/Raein house show the other day, was the funnest thing ever. As soon as I got there complete strangers were chucking me beers and trying to get Raein to cover Slayer, everyone was chill as fuck.
You cannot fail in life if your last name is Bigman.
When I was in Inkwell, you wouldn’t be caught dead in tight jeans at a show.
Having been there from 91-97, I don’t see what kids are taking away from what we were up to back then. Maybe cuz I’m oldz, but the “skramz” lovers now don’t seem to really get it.
you still live in GA bro?
wut the only thing that changed are clothes, music is still the same, no innovation. except for a few a bands, if you are all about DIY/Ethics/, most bands still are all about that.
no, i got the fuck outta there 8 years ago and moved to Cali.
gotcha. you probably don’t care, but i really enjoy your band post-humously. i didn’t really get into the style until around 2001 (thanks to portrait) but i still listen to inkwell on the regular.
what are they not “getting”? just curious, as an outsider.
the music is not the same. it can’t be. there will never be another Indian Summer, cuz no one rips off Fugazi anymore. there will never be another Still Life, 12 minute songs about love? do kids still protest shit cuz we had a protest every weekend? Current, Angel Hair, Capn Jazz, Honeywell, Julia, or any Bloodlink records bands, Merel, Native Nod, Mohinder, Union of Uranus? that can never happen again, but it’s cute to see kids try.
tagged “rich jews” “white foolishness”
ohhh I see, so Jews are only white when their behaving in an embarassing/overearnest fashion?
pure racingism
I didn’t put nearly as much thought into it as you did, but yeah you pretty much nailed it. Nice work!
http://memegenerator.net/cache/instances/400x/12/12830/13138173.jpg
the dude from 3-Oh-3 looks 37.
So that’s the D himself, second from the bottom? Mirin, bro.
no thats alex bigman
“me and steven init records”
Bro haven’t you ever seen Sarge “become his victims” ??
It’s alex bigman, Sarge looks like this:
http://www.stuffyouwillhate.com/2011/12/sywh-invades-hong-kong/
(lolololol)
Bigman is a stud at heart
Bigman is a stud at heart!
With everything tr00 maybe skramz will be big soon. Way less annoying to me that tr00 pop punk, and that new Loma record was pretty sweet.
I’ll take some skramburgerz all day.
Skramz master Alex invented the word skramz .CmHwak for life.
i think it was actually someone else on CMHWAK or VLV, but he definitely popularized it. mirin.
Searge are u fucking kidding me? I invented the word that is common knowledge. don’t try to discredit me bro!
dude you told me yourself you didn’t invent the word!
sometimes friends fight :-/
hope they fight fair
One of the best posts ever. Love me skram! You’re missing out, sarge!
the only reason i went to those shows in 99 was because I wasn’t into girls yet
Bigman should market a “Skramz Life” patch with a Winnie the Pooh & Tigger graphic on it.
I’m morally obligated to support anything involving Comadre.
BACKED
THat blog is already pretty funny, looking forward to pro level Skramz posts in the near future.
Oh shit, homeboy in the beginning had an Acid King shirt.
I think Sturgis should produce some skramz.
Guitarist “hey man the guitar and the drums are supposed to be out of sync at that spot it adds to the unnerving tone of the song.”
Joey, “Yeah but everyone will like it if it sounds good.”
i remember that I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook (some of those dudes formed loma prieta later) had in their myspace “we don’t know how to play our instruments we know how to play our songs”
no one in haikus went to be in loma prieta…..trei went on to form beau navire who has a member of loma prieta…..get you’re facts straight
Alex Bigman is hot
for the love of god..once again…..please post more detailed lulzy recollections and anecdotes about 90s screamo/hc. i would love to hear it, for my own nerdy reasons, and im sure your inimitable sensibility would make it that much more hilarious
I second this, they’re always the best posts.
http://www.stuffyouwillhate.com/2010/01/do-u-3-teh-skramz-lyfe/
=’)
finally
i am 100% pro-skram and i am not ashamed
lmao at the “Six Pack” remix, wasn’t expecting that
nothing beats that seeing means more track where bigman bitch screams about some girl for like 30 seconds then transitions into an EXTRA BR00TAL skramzcore breakdown