Manitoba Live Music Event

About

As one of Fat Wreck Chords’ very first bands, Propagandhi have long been going against the grain of not just society, but even their own record label. Initiated by Chris Hannah and Jordy Samolesky, the band of radicals from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, got together in 1989 and eventually played a show with NOFX. After talking with Fat Mike and realizing they shared the same D.I.Y. attitude, Propagandhi agreed to join his fledgling label. Ideally, the band would have loved to skirt the entire capitalist process of selling and marketing music, but made compromises in order to get its pro-gay, pro-feminist, pro-civil liberties, anti-fascism message out. Screeching over fast, catchy punk music, the group moved easily from humorous to profound to blunt with song titles like “I Was a Pre-Teen McCarthyist,” “Hate, Myth, Muscle, Etiquette,” and “Stick the Fucking Flag Up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch.”