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Friday, October 15 2010

The Ex: Catch My Shoe

How many bands can weather the loss of a founding member who's been a mainstay for 30 years like they haven't missed a beat? Well, there aren't many groups like Dutch anarcho-punks the Ex.


Thursday, April 22 2010

Big Ears Festival: 26-28 March 2010 - Knoxville, TN

For Knoxville music and arts fans, it was time to show the rest of the world that we’ve got a pretty hip little town on our hands, and the Big Ears Festival is a perfect mission statement.


Wednesday, October 15 2008

KatJonBand: KatJonBand

Two uncompromising punk veterans find a volatile common ground in staccato rhythms, surreal imagery, and passionate political engagement.


Friday, February 15 2008

The Ex: Building a Broken Mousetrap [DVD]

Punk’s most passionate, politically-engaged band plays a show in New York on the three-year anniversary of 9/11 and in the midst of the Republican National Convention.


Friday, May 11 2007

The Ex (2007)

Zach Braff just gets more annoying by the minute. Braff brings what he always does -- a basic mopey charm, some sarcasm, even a rudimentary self-awareness.


Friday, December 16 2005

The Ex: Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980 - 1990

At times this sounds like a dance-party coming from these dour Dutch anarchists, albeit with a bust of Winston Churchill staring by the door.


Tuesday, February 8 2005

The Ex: Turn

Deep intellectual analysis of geopolitics and fearless insertion of their socio-anarchist perspective is a bold, defining path drawn by The Ex.


Sunday, January 1 1995

The Ex: Dizzy Spells


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