Name: Insubordination Records
Lifespan: 1996-Current
Web Site: http://insubordinationrecords.com/
Notable Releases/Bands: Apers, Backseat Virgins, Be My Doppleganger, Beatnik Termites, Copyrights, For Science, Hard-Ons, Proteens, Radio With Guts, Unlovables
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Started by Reggie Silvestri and Pat Kim in 1996 for Beatnik Termites albums, the label quickly grew from there and Chris Thacker was welcomed on board. In 2004 Mark Enoch brought Knock Knock Records into Insubordination Records and things continued to grow from there. Even today Insubordination records is well known for putting out quality pop punk for many years now, not to mention the now yearly Insubordination Fest in Baltimore, 3 days of pop punk that everybody loves
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Everybody’s favorite thirty second song pop punk band, Short Attention, played Insubordination Fest 2007 (along with a lot of other great bands). If you weren’t able to make it out or simply want to relive they’re killer thirty seven song set all you’ve got to do is go on over to Insubordination Records site and pick up this CD/DVD set. You get, as you may have guessed, a CD and a DVD of the set they played. They throw a lot of their jams in here as well as some quick cover songs. As with the other Insubordination Fest 2007 both video and sound quality are pretty good for this live recording. If you’re down for some quick catchy songs about everything from Toilet Paper to Asian Girls you’ll like Short Attention. And sense this super group rarely tours or plays shows this CD/DVD is a rare treat to see them live.
The Steinways played Insubordination Fest 2007, Insubordination was kind enough to release CD/DVD sets of a fair amount of the band that played the fest that year, The Steinways were one. This was great not only do you get a live Steinways CD you get a Steinways DVD too! The price was right as well. We’ve got a thirteen song set including some great pop punk material here. If you’re a fan of the Steinways you should have this, you can still get it pretty cheap off the Insubordination Records site last time I checked, the sound quality is great and video quality is pretty good. With the Steinways broken up it looks like we’re not getting anything else out of them this is a welcome addition to their catalog seeing as they only had a hand full of releases before their split. If you missed Insubordination Fest 2007 you can now at least catch their set on DVD.
My favorite new school pop punk bands played Insubordination Fest 2007, I missed the fest. Insubordination Records released a CD/DVD set of The Ergs! set, I bought it. This is the only official live Ergs! release and it’s quite a treat. Audio and video are quite good, the set list is a little short only including eleven songs, but they squeeze some classics in here. The live version of “Jazz Is Like The New Coke” is a must to hear and it’s quite a treat to hear other great Ergs! tunes live for anyone who hasn’t gotten the honor of seeing them. Opening the set as (almost) always “Things I Could Never Find a Way to Say” to the close “Books About Miles Davis”; it just makes me so much angrier that I missed being here. This captures about 20% of the fun of seeing the Ergs! live, but 20% is a lot better than 0%. This is a must for any Ergs! fan.
