KAYLA "Foxie" PHILLIPS, vocalist of Nashville, Tennessee power violence/grind core warriors BLEED THE PIGS has written an essay on race, the often hypocrisy of the hardcore scene and the Ferguson, Missouri verdict last week via NOISEY webzine.
BLEED THE PIGS unleashed "Mortis Fatum" (EP) 1/27/2014 (self released).
Last week, Ferguson, Missouri police officer DARREN WILSON was NOT indicted in the tragic shooting of teenager MICHAEL BROWN JR., apprehended in 2014 alleged store robbery, BROWN was un- armed. Ferguson, Missouri police officer DARREN WILSON has recently resigned as a police officer.
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/hardcore-ferguson-and-the-angry-black-woman-essay?utm_source=noiseyfbus
http://www.spin.com/articles/best-new-artist-profile-bleed-the-pigs/
FROM LAINA DAWES (AUTHOR OF "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE-A Black Women's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal"):
Here is a great piece by Bleed the Pigs vocalist Foxie Phillps on the similarities between hardcore, race and what is happening in Ferguson, MO. A MUST READ!
FROM NOISEY:
What do hardcore, Ferguson, and the “angry black woman" trope all have in common? Read this powerful essay by Bleed the Pigs' covalist Kayla Phillips. http://bit.ly/1tBEVHp
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-