The new Rationalhardcore Times is at www.rationalhardcore.com

The new format of rationalhardcore times is at www.rationalhardcore.com

The new version is much more practical, and is also easier on the eyes. Some new articles are posted, and while we may continue to occasionally post on this blog to make announcements, the new site will be the place to go for new content. It is still in the transition stage, so new features and content are forthcoming.

The Yellow Day Brigade & ABORT SCENE downloadable on iTunes & CD Baby

ABORT SCENE & The Yellow Day Brigade albums now available for download on CD Baby & iTunes !!

Go to www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com to purchase

(Click on album covers to stream large clips of the songs)

DOWNLOAD FULL ALBUM OR SINGLE SONGS !!

ABORT SCENE: Seeds of the Real Alternative
DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM at cdbaby.com/abortscene for $12.97
DOWNLOAD INDIVIDUAL TRACKS (38!) at iTunes soon!

The Yellow Day Brigade: Taxation is Theft / Stop Kidding Yourself
DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM at cdbaby.com/tydb for $9.97
DOWNLOAD INDIVIDUAL SONGS (39!) at iTunes now!

More download options coming soon!

ABORT SCENE is Digital rationalhardcore & electronic paleolibertarian punk taking over where The Yellow Day Brigade left off, and providing 38 explicit bursts of liberty-driven hardcore to define the real alternative to the leftist/statist corruption of punk & mainstream culture. Lyrically, ABORT SCENE strives to be an antidote to the effects of MDC, Bad Religion, Rage Against The Machine, and other artists spewing leftist views and popularizing criminal agendas. Especially when combined with The Yellow Day Brigade's catalog, ABORT SCENE has a strong bid for the title of most prolific explicitly paleolibertarian music artist. Currently serving as the flagship artist of PhoenixHeart Records.

The Yellow Day Brigade (a.k.a. “The YDB”, 2004-2007) seeks to set the "punks" straight with its brand of rationalhardcore, a genre and movement it essentially founded. A revival of that old-school combination of jackhammer beats and thrashy riffs recalling Bad Brains and Minor Threat presents a shock to the wussy emo-pop-punk and extra-heavy metalcore fans alike. As if a jolt of early eighties hardcore is not enough, The YDB's version also fuses mechanical beats and acid-bath guitar processing for an industrial edge heavily influenced by Big Black. The abrasive sound waves aside, consider the amazement of some punk/hardcore enthusiasts when they discover The Yellow Day Brigade is staunchly against Leftist politics. In creating the rationalhardcore movement, The YDB seeks to create hardcore/punk music and culture steeped in anarcho-capitalist/paleo-libertarian discipline - And it will be done with or without the "mainstream hardcore/punk" empire. After all, isn't secession central to real hardcore/punk? The YDB's 'Stop Kidding Yourself' & 'Taxation is Theft' albums are combined for a total of 39 songs on one audio cd. That's almost 80 minutes of industrialized rationalhardcore thrash and jams. These two albums were meant to be together, and they are front and center in the rationalhardcore movement. A must for libertarians and fans of oldschool hardcore like Bad Brains & Minor Threat!

http://rationalhardcore.blogspot.com

www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com

ABORT SCENE videos from 2008

Here are some ABORT SCENE videos from 2008. Lyrics included!

Antimulticulturalism song (shown above)

Afraid of Ghosts

University

& Your Money Pays For It

If You Want Peace (Stop The War At Home)

Stop Kidding Yourself

Purchase information for ABORT SCENE albums can be found at www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com.

Performance videos from The Yellow Day Brigade in 2006

These performances from The Yellow Day Brigade are from 2006, shortly before recording the 'Taxation is Theft' album.

"It" live (shown above)

"T" ("Babylon Falls") live

"Just Wait" live

"Stop Kidding Yourself" live

"No Response" live

"Heartless Bloody Victims" live

Album purchase information for The Yellow Day Brigade can be found at www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com

ABORT SCENE show + 2 Films

Show Cancelled!



Also see www.Mises.org

New ABORT SCENE album by 2008...

New ABORT SCENE album by 2008...

A MESSAGE FROM ABORT SCENE:

Hey Conservative Punks and rationalhardcore enthusiasts, I'm happy to announce that the latest songs from ABORT SCENE are recorded and mixed. This album has been completed despite technical difficulties at every point along the way, and the final sound ranges from "mediocre live bootleg" to "decent home studio". Most of my favorites came out pretty good, though, and I think it is musically a hybrid of later Germs and later Clash with liberty-focused Guttermouth/Vandals/Fear/Germs - styled lyrics, a dash of hip-hop, and the YDB - meets - raincloud zero instrumentation you have come to love over the past year or so...

...Speaking of raincloud zero, those of you who have followed PhoenixHeart Records from early on may be aware that it is the electronic music project started back in 1999... There was the 'Static is Pretty' album released on PhoenixHeart in 2003, then a teaser ep called 'Drive' in early '04, but nothing since then. I've obviously been busy programming other music in the meantime. I think you Conservative Punks deserve to dance and enjoy yourselves, so I have placed 5 techno/industrial songs in the vein of raincloud zero at the end of the new ABORT SCENE album. That's 12 lyrical tracks + 5 wordless dancers = 17 total trax. More details on the songs coming soon. I see even more of both types in the near future, as well as some other genres...

-CCMD of ABORT SCENE

"Right to Secede" lyrics by ABORT SCENE

right to secede

We are individuals Living under duress And fear of the rulers Claiming eminent dominance

You have the right to secede And you are right to secede

The situation’s despicable Voting under duress A single will forced on all Natural Right trumps illegal laws

You have the right to secede And you are right to secede You have the right to secede And you’d be right to secede You have the right to secede Right to secede!

We are individuals Living under duress In fear of the rulers Claiming eminent dominance

The situation’s despicable Voting under duress A single will forced on all Natural Right trumps illegal laws!

(c) ABORT SCENE

(More like this available at the Libertarian Music Archive)

"& Your Money Pays For It" lyrics by ABORT SCENE

AND YOUR MONEY PAYS FOR IT
‘Womyns Studies’
Feminazi lectures
Hate movement ideology in every hall
Censored speech codes
Designated zones
Lying statistic on the walls
And your money pays for it!
Textbooks lack any connection to truth
‘Advantaged’ and ‘privileged’ are only double-speak
Their dreams can come true, and it seems Orwell knew:
The leftists divide and conquer by hypocrisy!
and your money pays for it!
Your money pays for it!!

(c) ABORT SCENE

(More like this available at the Libertarian Music Archive)

"University" lyrics by ABORT SCENE

UNIVERSITY
The University is infested with scum:
Racist, sexist, relativist, statist p.c. bums
And the tide is not turning due to brainwashed alumns
The syllabi terrorize and minds go numb
Fu(k You, University
Fu(k You, University
Fu(k you, University
Demand an alternative!!
Ideologue feminazi
Multiculturalist insanity
P.C. vanity
It’s not worth a degree!
Fu(k You, University
Fu(k You, University
Fu(k You, University
Demand an alternative!!
Demand an alternative!!

(c) ABORT SCENE

(More available at the Libertarian Music Archive)

"Heartless Bloody Victims" lyrics by The Yellow Day Brigade

“Heartless Bloody Victims”

You’re a one-line cry about the other side You’re a fender-lender lie; multiply to divide You’re the same scam-game that you’ll make them play Harass about selling out, but you’re to blame!

Have you paid your tax today? You’re a pimp, you’re a whore, you’re a “saint”!

Heartless… Bloody… Victims… Try me!

It’s time you knew, time your bullshit’s through “Responsible”? You? Don’t assume what’s true! You lead a group-think, roller-rink mentality That’s why it’s never getting better. Getting better? No, only harder to breathe!

Why do they want to please you? Take a guess, take a guess who’s gonna police you!

Heartless Bloody Victims’ Tyranny!

Tyranny…Tyranny…TYRANNY!

(c) The Yellow Day Brigade

(More available at the Libertarian Music Archive)

"Stop Kidding Yourself" lyrics by The Yellow Day Brigade

“Stop Kidding Yourself”

Stop kidding yourself…

You like being part of their scheme Another pawn in the game We’re up for grabs, if you haven’t heard And so it seems we’re all just soldiers

Are you ready? They’ll say:

Die On Command – call it a righteous stand Die On Command – wear the official brand Die On Command – the blood soaks your hands

Take a long look at who’s giving the orders. This is not what you want.

You fake it like it is. This is not what you want. You can do better than this. Die for them, and you won’t. You wouldn’t know what to do. You don’t know what to do. We’re all too far-removed. May never do it, THOUGH WE CAN!

(c) The Yellow Day Brigade and ABORT SCENE

(More available at the Libertarian Music Archive)

Stop The Violence lyrics by The Yellow Day Brigade

Stop The Violence – I denounce aggression, but you display your passion. I speak out against violence and the fear it creates. Those same called “progressive” are an aggressive collective of left-wing statist thieves on a demographic chase. They lay it all to waste! The Left cites “non-violence” but propagates silence as their own hordes pillage with no good defense! I forgive you, since I understand ignorance. Some of us cling to that last shred of innocence… Non-Aggression is the way! Hey! Stop the violence! Stop the violence! Stop the violence!!

(c) The Yellow Day Brigade

(Check out more at the Libertarian Music Archive)

Focus on Restitution - lyrics by The Yellow Day Brigade

Focus on Restitution – Focus on restitution: What they took; give it back! Not statist incarceration. No, I’m talking tit for tat. You know, that’s how it used to be. They would make the victim whole. But now it’s all state-aggrandizing, propagandizing, dehumanizing effort to take it all! The legal cartel’s pockets swell, opportunity cost in a rotting cell, and for all the talk of “victims” he’s been forgotten! Forgotten! Forgotten! Focus on restitution.

(c) The Yellow Day Brigade

(Check out more at the Libertarian Music Archive)

Check out Music_76

Check out Music_76 at myspace.com/music_76

They have a great collection of conservative and libertarian band links.

Opening the Door to a Real and Necessary Alternative

The college campus is a magnet for “crazies” of all types and ages. Unfortunately, so are popular and “alternative” music.

Passionate, idealistic people in music tend to have a romantic view of leftist politics for some reason (ask the leftist marketing department). I think a real alternative is necessary and should be welcomed…

We need more right-oriented, paleoconservative and libertarian artists. I, for one, am helping to provide a platform for them. PhoenixHeart Records & Media started in C-U. Now specializing in paleolibertarian, paleoconservative, and apolitical music/media, it is also publishing the new (maga)zine RATIONALHARDCORE TIMES, maintains a LIBERTARIAN MUSIC ARCHIVE listing existing libertarian bands for fans and other bands to use when making mix cds or setlists, and is the central reference point for the RATIONALHARDCORE (essentially libertarian hardcore) MOVEMENT.

In 2004, CONSERVATIVE PUNK made headlines (and the Daily Show with John Stewart) with its attempt to explain that there have always been “conservative”, “right-wing”, and libertarian people and elements at all levels of the punk scene(s). Contrary to the nastier leftists out there, they weren’t “nazis”. A prominent example, Johnny Ramone (perhaps the most influential punk guitarist?) was a Republican. Sadly, Conservative Punk appears to have declined. We’re still waiting for Counter-Revolution Records…

I know personally that much of what attracted me to punk/hardcore was the implicit libertarian nature of it. (Go online to read Todd A’s article, PUNKROCK=CAPITALISM) Punk has always had a bit of immature confusion about it, and the growing popularity of most things punk has only magnified this confusion to fit the masses. My own growing discontent concerning this has led me to promote a rational approach to understanding what punk is in place of the popular empirical approach. The result, the real and necessary alternative, is the RATIONALHARDCORE MOVEMENT.

Rationalhardcore's 3-part mission: 1) rational approach to what punk/hardcore is (see “A Rational Look at Punk Ideology” – Rationalhardcore Times) 2) rational application of Non-Aggression Axiom in art, music, and action 3) find previous rationalhardcore-consistent art/artists and spread the message

At rationalhardcore times, we will focus primarily on paleoconservative, paleolibertarian, libertarian, conservative(punk?), rationalhardcore, and apolitical artists in our reviews. I have no desire to help the leftist cause or artists promoting leftism. I would also like to address and explore whatever reputations right-oriented groups may have in the punk & indie communities.

I imagine this article may be met with disgust and/or a call for balance. Everyone wants to balance crime and Justice, right?!?!

I believe there is a group of people in the punk/indie scenes that is silently yearning for this, and some of them may not even know it yet.

For more information on PhoenixHeart Records & Media and the Rationalhardcore Movement, visit www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com .

ABORT SCENE - 'Stop The Violence'

The Industrialized Rationalhardcore project ABORT SCENE (formerly The YDB) has released a cd with 25 songs from 3 eps: ‘College=MTV’ (9 songs in 7.5 minutes, including a Minor Threat cover and a Bad Brains cover), ‘If You Want Peace (Stop The War At Home)’, and a collection of 11 songs culled from The YDB’s 40-song / 80– minute ’rationalhardcore double-album’ to be retained for ABORT SCENE purposes. The new album, called ‘STOP THE VIOLENCE’, is available at C.V. Lloyd’s guitar shop and on
www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com .

Payola is OK

I hear people in the “indie” scene complain about payola. I think this probably has root in the fact that small bands and labels often do not have the resources to compete in the payola game. Would they if they could? They probably should. There is nothing inherently wrong with paying a radio station to play your music. It is voluntary exchange between two parties. It can be considered the same as advertising. However, payola has wrongly been made illegal.

Major label pop music is notoriously terrible for the most part, and many would rather hear their favorite “indie” artists (often terrible in their own ways) in the place of the majors. Some people (even in high places) try to frame the issue as a matter of competition among artists so the best artist gets played, making payola look like cheating. However, that is not the issue at all. The station is not responsible to listeners to play what they will like. The real issue is the radio station’s bottom line.

Competition occurs behind the scenes (though in many cases quite visibly, given the music press), and it is probably in the best interest of the station to put the best songs (however subjective such a designation may be) in rotation because this will theoretically cause more listeners to tune in. This also can enhance the station’s reputation. These listeners hear the advertisements, which helps the station sell more ads and make more money. The station can also make money by selling advertisement to artists by playing their songs for pay. Again, this is simply voluntary exchange between two parties.

Radio play, whether free or paid, is essentially advertisement. This holds true whether the artist’s goal is to sell more records or to promote some cause.

If a radio listener does not like what he hears, he should listen to a different station, buy his own records, go to work for a station that makes its own playlists and get involved, promote his preferred music online, or some other alternative. If an artist wants to be successful (however he may define success), he can choose another alternative approach besides advertising with radio play.

In March 2007, OpeningBands.com posted the following in its news section under the header “Score One For Indie Labels”:

“The FCC is currently finalizing a settlement with four major broadcasting companies over Payola. As part of the agreement, 4 major broadcast companies would pay $12.5 million in fines and provide 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime for independent record labels and local artists. The four companies tentatively named are: Clear Channel Communications Inc., CBS Radio, Entercom Communications Corp. and Citadel Broadcasting Corp.” (the link to the news story no longer works)

Payola’s wrongful illegality aside, it seems very strange that part of the suggested punishment would include providing 8,400 half-hour segments of free airtime to “independent record labels and local artists”. The criminals who advocate for continued payola illegality have essentially paid for advertisement (play) of independent and local artists with the hijacked airtime of these companies. This is clearly a crime, whereas the original payola was not.

These local and independent artists are not necessarily better, so the already flawed “quality competition among artists for listeners’ benefit” argument can be tossed out completely. You have no rights over a station’s playlists anyway.

It would also be interesting to see which artists are selected for these artificially protected, hijacked airtimes. Would the mainstream “independent” acts on large labels that are “independent” only in name be good candidates? Would these mainstream “independents” create unwanted competition for lesser-known artists? This could very well resemble the joke of nineties “alternative” music: Alternative to what!?!

Independent music fans, the government, and the general public need to carefully consider the injustices of payola illegality and the proposed (false) restitution for such non-crimes.
The following articles have influenced the above article, and provide additional related information (Strongly recommended!):

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/frazier1.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff46.html

Check out GUTTERMOUTH!!!!!

Guttermouth’s Anti-PC humor has paved the way for other artists with the clear perspective that there is almost nothing right in the homogenized, mainstream/leftist-friendly “punk” scene(s). Check out their 1995 album, ‘Friendly People’ for a taste of the ardently un-PC !!


Guttermouth's Website

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Rationalhardcore:
“finally setting the punks straight!”

Go to www.PhoenixHeartRecords.com for:

1) Libertarian Music/Lyrics Archive
2) Virtual Venue for Concert Videos / Music Videos
3) ONLINE STORE for RATIONALHARDCORE albums, libertarian & conservative books, and other media.

SEEKING ARTISTS! SEEKING WRITERS!

Featured rationalhardcore lyrics: "Public Assistance"

Featured CLASSIC Rationalhardcore Lyrics: “PUBLIC ASSISTANCE” by AGNOSTIC FRONT (Album: ‘Cause For Alarm’):

You spend your life on welfare lines Or looking for handouts Why don’t you go find a job You birth more kids to up your checks So you can buy more drugs Cash in food stamps and get drunk

Uncle Sam takes half my pay So you can live for free I got a family and bills to pay No one hands money to me You can go to school for nothing Got that government grant Get money in advance When you’re sick from shooting up Medicaid pays full portion When little Maria gets knocked up She gets a free abortion

How come it’s minorities who cry Things are too tough On TV with their gold chains Claim they don’t have enough I say make them clean the sewers Don’t take no resistance If they don’t like it go to hell And cut their public assistance

Conservative Punk review: The FlipFloppers

The FlipFloppers
(Purevolume songs 2-1-07)
www.purevolume.com/theflipfloppers
1. Michael Moron
2. Hanoi John
3. Ballad of Dick Cheney

(Until the Rationalhardcore and Conservative Punk CDs come pouring in, we’ll settle for Purevolume.com accounts that have the feel of a “complete” demo CD. The FlipFloppers are a good example.)

The FlipFloppers offer an oldschool-styled punk/hardcore sound with programmed drums and song titles like “Michael Moron”, “Hanoi John”, & “The Ballad of Dick Cheney”. These Conservative Punks are ‘Crush Kerry Compilation’ alumni, and “Hanoi John” was included on that disc. They deliver their critical messages with a sense of humor, and the metronome that begins each song makes this metallic punk duo all the more endearing.

“Michael Moron” is the most intense song of the three, featuring alternating vocals and a heavy metal riff in all transitions. The quick chorus part ends with “Michael Moron has brainwashed you”. Michael Moore is certainly a fitting subject for a punk rock song. “Hanoi John” moves the crosshairs to the next obvious target, this time with more focus on the beat. The pre-chorus pickscrape gets you all geared up for the almost Big Black – reminiscent awkward beat that follows. “Ballad of Dick Cheney” is one of those songs that builds slowly and has little or nothing to offer when you get to the peak. It’s like a crappy waterslide with a long line, or maybe a campus bar. “Ballad” works in the context of the other songs because it is different, but it is nothing special.

The FlipFloppers could move on to other subject matter. Their current approach of telling political celebrities to shut up and go away results in songs with which people can identify, but probably only for as long as it takes to change the channel. Still, I enjoy their songs and I appreciate their fidelity to a 1980s punk rock sound. Conservative punk bands would do well to model themselves after The FlipFloppers when starting out. I would like to hear more from this band soon.

Featured rationalhardcore lyrics

"Taxation is Theft” (The YDB) - If you pay a tax, I’ll tell you what you do / It’s called involuntary servitude / Don’t try to tell me that it’s necessary / We’ll find a way to do it voluntarily / and in a way that won’t support slavery / They take your property at gunpoint / Freedom’s what you pay! / Taxation Is Theft! Taxation Is Theft!

© 2006 The Yellow Day Brigade
From the album, ‘Taxation is Theft’ - Non-Aggression Records

Rationalhardcore... finally setting the "punks" straight!

Rationalhardcore is: hardcore music/culture consistent with the Non-Aggression Axiom: "It shall be legal for one to do whatever he chooses so long as he does not aggress (initiate or threaten violence/force) upon another person's life, liberty, or property". Rationalhardcore tends toward paleolibertarianism and anarcho-capitalism.

Wikipedia says of punk ideology:
[Punk ideology is concerned with the individual's intrinsic right to freedom, and a less restricted lifestyle. Punk ethics espouse the role of personal choice in the development of, and pursuit of, greater freedom. Common punk ethics include a radical rejection of conformity, the DIY (Do It Yourself) ethic, direct action for political change, and not selling out to mainstream interests for personal gain.]

Few people who identify as “punks” would disagree with the above statement, but strangely, just as few are willing to admit libertarianism and pure capitalism are
what allow one to pursue these punk goals. I am talking about the ability to act freely and to do with one’s resources as one chooses.

To add injury to insult, leftist politics actually hinder one’s ability to pursue the stated goals of “punk ideology”. One has less ability to do as he chooses when he and his resources are tied up in forced group goals. One’s hard-earned money is stolen and treated as if it naturally belongs to the government, then is spent on several things that person may actually be against. Not only is this not freedom, but it is slavery toward the creation of worse conditions for the slave. What if this slave was freed and allowed to either keep and save his money or pool it with like-minded individuals as he chooses? It is worth noting in passing that many causes of the leftist/mainstream variety are poorly conceived or even meant to reinforce slavery and prevent freedom. This is where punk ideology’s supposed “radical rejection of conformity” should spark some original thought to analyze and criticize the effects and intentions of such popular causes and forced policies.

DIY, or “Do It Yourself”, is about the creative use of one’s resources. It also means being willing to try to do things in a new way when conforming to the established mainstream pattern is less appealing but perhaps more socially acceptable/expectable.

Anarchy is the absence of rulers/government. True anarchy is pure libertarianism. Many call themselves “anarchists” for dramatic effect, when they are usually variations of radical socialists who would tear down current government for the purpose of placing their preferred coercive government in its place. True anarchy (sometimes called “anarcho-capitalism” or “private property anarchy”) and libertarianism are about making most or all things voluntary. In a true anarchist environment, if one believes in socialism, he may find other socialist volunteers to form a socialist group that does not force itself upon those who want no part in that group’s actions. Others may avoid socialism and government altogether. The point is the voluntary nature of these actions. It all comes down to the Non-Aggression Axiom.

With the libertarian implications of punk ideology’s goals in mind, “selling out” to mainstream interests for personal gain could mean either compromising one’s libertarian approach or, arguably, taking an opportunity for personal gain at the expense of the libertarian cause (which is a cause that promotes true justice). The actions taken by punks themselves can come into play when a voluntary shift in resources can lead to greater liberty for oneself or for others.

Libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism lead to fewer or no government-created “laws”, but it does not mean “might makes right”. Actually, “might makes right” is characteristic of the mob or gang mentality inherent in democratic and/or socialist government. Instances involving trespass upon another person’s life, liberty, or property are still identified. As Butler Schaeffer has noted, most of what people do when interacting in the current state of affairs is an anarchistic expression. In a more libertarian society, we could live much as we do now, but with more freedom and without the excessive rules and unjust force exercised on us by a collective that has the might to do so … a group that happens to call itself the state. Shrinking government and its power gets us closer to that society.

Punk ideology’s goals can only be fulfilled through libertarianism.