Cult of the Dead Cow

 
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Long live the underground! When the underground is gone, when the people's will to resist overbearing government and kneejerk morality is gone...
Then, shall I be able to declare America dead.

-- Jello Biafra

I. MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS MENTIONING OR QUOTING cDc OR ITS MEMBERS

• For a three year period between 1985 and 1987, The Nightstalker provided editorials and essays for the Apple II edition of Uptime.

• Details, October, 1991, "The Hackers Who Came In From The Cold", by Bruce Sterling, pg 96, includes:

  "It didn't help that underground hacker boards sported terrifying sci-fi heavy-metal names, like 'Speed Demon Elite,' 'Demon Roach Underground,' and 'Black Ice.'"

• ComputerWorld, January 13, 1992, pg 100, mentions a US government-run BBS for computer security experts. cDc files are officially hoarded there for reference, among the trove of other hacker text-files. The government charges a yearly membership fee for access to these files; we give them away for free.

• COMPUTE! Magazine, January 1992, Gazette section, pages G-9 and G10, contain subliminal Illuminati symbols, courtesy of Nightstalker.

• Omni, November, 1992, "Secrets of the Cyberculture" by A.J.S. Rayl, pg 66.

• LoadStar, Issue #103, December, 1992. Nightstalker's review of The New Hacker's Dictionary.

• Boston Globe Magazine, March 22, 1993, "Navigating On-Line America", by D.C. Deniston.

• Mondo 2000, Issue #10, 1993, "Storming the Bullshit Studio", by Suzanne d'Fault and Quaker State Tapioca Rupture, pg 45. Includes:

  "cDc; CULT OF THE DEAD COW, is a nation of psychic signal jammers. We're talking GOOFY. Headquartered at DEMON ROACH UNDERGROUND (which is continually busy, but try and try), the cDc provides a real service to the BBS community by confusing the hell out of the feds."

• Hartford (Connecticut) Courant, September 27, 1993, front page, "Free Speech and Computers Central to Bomb-Recipe Case"

• The Montreal Gazette, December 20, 1993, front page, "Computer Data Can Be Dangerous"

• Playboy, April, 1994, "Lust Online" by Matthew Childs

• Vibe magazine, Volume 2, Number 5, June/July 1994, "Of Phreaks and Hackers", by Carol Cooper, pg 77.

• Gray Areas: Issue #5 and Issue #7; HoHoCons '93 and '94 are reviewed.

• Nightstalker's review of Dixie City Jam was featured in The Armchair Detective, Fall 1994 (vol. 27, number 4) pg 483.

• Blaster magazine, Issue #1 and Issue #2.

• Punk Planet, Issue #2

• The Red Herring, April, 1995.

• Shift Magazine, April-May 1995, " New Hack City -- What happens when 200 of the world's most notorious computer hackers get together on New Year's Eve?", by Rodney Palmer, pg 26. See also:

  http://www.e-Commerce.Com/Shift/shift3-3/hackers.html

• .Net magazine, Issue #7, June 1995, "Virtual Villainy".

• I-Way Magazine, Issue #1, June 1995, "The Internet Can Turn Anybody Into a Publisher", by Reid Goldsborough, Page 43.

• PyroTechnics, Issue #55, June, 1995, pp 1, 2. Nightstalker's most recent article, concerning experimental rocketry in the late 1960s.

• .Net magazine, Issue #8, July 1995, "Breaking into Heaven".

• Mondo 2000, Issue #14, "Poppy Z. Brite in the Charnel House of Karma", pg 68. Poppy briefly mentions the positive influence of certain cDc members (and their attendant Hello Kitty fixation) on her psycho-sexual chrysalis.

• Shift Magazine's comparison between Hollywood's image of hackers and the real thing, Cult of the Dead Cow.

• Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, August 8, 1995 business section, "Breaking in is hard to do", by Mike Meyers. Excerpt:

  "One hacker known as 'DEATH VEGETABLE,' who gained notoriety a couple of years ago for posting on the Internet instructions for building a bomb, said he likes nothing better than a corporate computer relying on outdated operating software, conventional hardware and overworked, poorly trained electronics technicians. Or, to put that in the parlance of would-be intruders, 'Unix running on VAX and watched by MIS - it's a hacker's wet dream,' he said. 'You see it all the time.' In his view, companies that are sloppy deserve whatever happens to them."

• Infobahn Magazine, Issue #1

• SunWorld On-Line, September, 1995 issue; talks about Deth Veggie's speech at DefCon III.

• PC Computing, December 1995, contains an "Roadmap to the Underground Internet" which mentions both the L0pht;

  "Cult of the Dead Cow: Their concern is 'Global Domination through Media Saturation' and they're out to titillate the Internet community with social commentaries and insights." (Ha! That's what they think!)

  and the Dark Side of the Web,

  "If you like vampires, mysticism, books and movies about evil things and cemeteries, you could live here. Over 350 links from the lightly shaded to the depths of darkness."

• Miranda Megill and Features Editor Taylor Davis of the Hendersonville, Tennessee Cherokee Road Journal are reviewing the cDc home page.

• .Net magazine, Issue #13, December 1995, pg 48. The L0pht home page is featured, along with the caption, "The top US hackers hang out here. Why can't they spell?"
  Why can't .Net's British publishers get a clue?

• The Internet Underground, January 1996 edition features a "WebGuide" insert which reviews Deth Veggie's "Mr. T's K-Rad Home Page":

  Listen here suckah, I pity the fool that visits this site. Size up Mr. T and the world's biggest tree. Visit the A-Team episode guides. Points off for no mention of his famous breakfast cereal or insipid cartoon, the fools!
  [Rating:] 3 Stars.

• Phrack, several issues. Do a WAIS search to find cDc references. Most recently, Phrack 48, File 3 (Line Noise, Pt. I), in a review of the movie "Hackers" by Wile Coytote. And Mudge's Pro-Phile in Phrack 49.

• Canadian Globe and Mail, Tuesday, February 27th, 1996 issue, "A Short History of Hackers, Phreaks and Worms", is yet another example of cDc's growing influence on foreign media. With the publication of this article, Deth Vegetable is now "[the world's] most infamous hacker."

• Cool Beans! #5, March 3rd, 1996 contains an interview with our phearless leader, Grandmaster Swamp Ratte`, as well as a compilation of the first 300 cDc files on CD-ROM. For the binary-impaired, the Cool Beans! CD-ROM is also a compilation of music from the latest hip alterna-ground groups. For only $6.00 postage-paid (make checks out to Matt Kelly), you can get a copy:

  Cool Beans!
  3181 Mission #113
  SF, CA 94110
  

• Internet Underground, March, 1996, Vol 1, Issue #4, pg 44, "KILLING THE LANGUAGE, RAZING THE STANDARDS: Deconstruction & ReKuN5tRUKshn in the Electronic Age." Hackers "perverting the English language" and the socio-political implications of tYpP1nG K3wL. They cite a "typical web site" which contains the text:

  "U gUyZ aiNt HAck3rZ! WheRE aRe YEr cDc fILeZ?!?!1111?!?1 cuLt of dA DeAd coW rUleZ!!!!!11111!!11!1 hAy!!11!1 I wUz L00kInG aT Y0RE P@GE An|> 1 DId n0t SeE a L1nk to the cDc w3b P2G3!1!!!1 Iz thiz SuM KINd uv KREWL J0kE!?!1/ It r0x wif gl0ckZ!! cDc! We Are THE FutuRe of ROCK N' ROLL!"

  Their WebGuide(tm) insert contains a quick blurb about the cDc web page at the L0pht, though after all their learned research on tYpP1nG K3wL, they mistook the zero in 'L0pht' for the letter O. Later, they include an extra period in the L0pht URL, "http://lOpht.com./"

• A recent issue of Slap magazine unknowingly made reference to a UseNet post from Drunkfux. Inspired by a tender cross-post from a Dr. Jai Maharaj warning that "Meat-eaters hurt everyone," Drunkfux recounts his attempt to order a "Quadro-pounder" at a McDonald's drive-thru. The message includes in part:

  "FUK N0 B1TCH! I WANT 4 H0T SLABZ 0F C0W DETH 0N A BUN WITH N0 FUKING HIPPIE AZZ VEGETABULZ! I ALZ0 D0NT WANT ANY FUKING LAME VEGAN FRIEZ 0R ANY TYPE 0F RECYKULD PAKAGING. N0 KUP, N0 BAG, N0 WRAPPERZ.. PUT THE SHIT 0N THE WIND0W K0UNTER THING AND I WILL TAKE IT. AND TELL JAI T0 G0 FUK A K0K0NUT T00! ... FUK IT & GIMME THAT WHICH IZ THE S0URCE 0F ALL EVIL... N0W!"

  Slap attributes the msg only to "Cult of the Dead Cow." Evidently Slap had no problem printing the word "FUKING", but when it came to the name "Drunkfux", they drew the line.

• In the June 1996 issue of Blacklisted! 411 (volume 3, issue 2, page 24, paragraph 5, "The Computer Underground or, Geeks With Big Dicks", by Darwin) we find a reference to the Cult's influence on the uninitiated:

  "...Local guys competed to get text from Ripco, Demon Roach Underground ... People hoarded cDc... text files."

• Newsday's April 21st 2996 article entitled "Eclectic Zines: Web journals are battling to remain nonconformist" completely misses the mark. In the past year or two, it's become fashionable to upload your schlock to a web site and call it a 'zine; four stars and a "Top 5%" award if the tone of your 'zine is cynical. Ha! We've been on-line and electronically distributing our 'zine for more than a decade! The also-rans mentioned in the article don't even come close. Battling to remain non-conformist? We define it!

• So omnipresent is cDc, that we are now the subject of articles on how to avoid us. Internet Medicine, "Separating the Wheat From the Chaff Or How to Avoid the Cult of the Dead Cow." April 1996, 1.3.

• The University of Colorado's Campus Press article, "Surfing the Web Dungeons" is nearly on target. A few errata, however: The L0pht URL is wrong; there is no electronic form you can fill out to become a member; and the Global Domination Factory Direct Outlets are not part of a cDc shopping channel. We're working on that, though.

• The Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, July 14, 1996, "The Cult of the Dead Cow proves small is still beautiful on the Net", Colin Berry, music editor of Wired Magazine. Excerpt:

  "One such site, noted in Happy Mutant and forwarded to me recently by the builders themselves, is the controversial CULT Of THE DEAD COW, found on the Web ... cDc is a spew of bilious rant, cultural commentary, psychological purgation, and twisted fun. It's been around for over a decade, published by Ross Messiah, a k a Swamp Ratte ... [cDc] is 11 years old -- several generations in Web years. cDc has wrinkles that date longer than most e-zines. Is the best indication of the future of the Net a glimpse into its deep and dusty past?"

  Mr. Berry compares cDc's content to that of Slate -- "Microsoft's heavily hyped new electrorag" -- and finds Slate lacking. We're not surprised.

• Our own Mudge is pictured in the August, 1996 issue of Wired (pg 40), holding court in the L0pht:

  "What do a group of hackers do when the equipment they've accumulated over years of dumpster diving no longer fits in their apartments? They get a L0pht. Since 1993, a core group of seven Boston-based hackers have rented a loft space for hacking, trading information about cellular phone security, and building things like a wireless Internet service using discarded microwave equipment. All strictly for educational purposes, of course. ... why do they keep at it? 'For the girlies and the text files, of course,' says Mudge."

  Rocky Mountain News, August 18, 1996, "Air Force Battles Computer Hackers", pg 42A. Originally from an article by Chris Williams, San Antonio Express-News, August 11, 1996. Excerpt:

  "Hundreds of thousands of times a year, the Cyberwarrior [the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center] defends the nation's secrets from the members of the Legion of Doom and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW in a battlefield that spans the globe."

  The Cult of the Dead Cow can neither confirm nor deny the allegations of this reporter.

  "'In the old days, to be a hacker, you really had to be good," he said. 'Now, it is basically a point and click world. If you can run Windows 95, you can be a hacker.'"

  This is patently ridiculous. Although if it were true, the Air Force has just issued a damning testimonial of their own security. Maybe they're running NT?

• LAN Times, August 19, 1996 article on "Automated Hacking Tools" co-developed at cDc's L0pht by Hobbit and Mudge.

• CyberSurfer magazine gave the Mr. T web site (maintained by T's biggest fan. And I do mean large) quite a favorable review. CyberSurfer is produced by the same people who publish StarLog (uh huh huh uh), and it's almost exactly the same thing, with just a little more of a computer bent. Barely. Check out the October, 1996 issue. Page 15.

• Lady Carolin's Dark Side of the Web is mentioned in the October, 1996 issue of Playboy, page 24, in the "Multimedia News & Reviews" section.

  "At The Dark Side Of The Web you can connect to 1500 horror-related sites, including the Cannibalism page with its detailed recipies for 'the preparation of humans for consumption.'"

• OEM Magazine, November, 1996, "Breaking into Electronic Commerce". cDc cracks "secure"-key encryption technology? Bellcore wines and dines Mudge to keep him quiet? Just another day at the L0pht.

• On page 69 of the December, 1996 issue of Wired, Carolyn Meinel is pictured as an eclectic educator trying to teach kids about computing by teaching them to hack. Subliminally influenced by the cow, if you look closely you will see three cDc stickers prominently displayed on her monitor.

• Speaking of CyberSurfer: in their January, 1997 issue's homage to the Best of Horror On-Line (pg 37), our own sultry Lady Carolin is mentioned as being the mistress who maintains the Dark Side of the Web, which the magazine says is the ultimate in horror links and indexes. There's a quote from Lady Carolin in which she says she's "not a Satanist, ... doesn't dress in black 100% of the time." The article's author then says, with characteristic gothic humor, "How unfortunate. Well, even if she isn't as fun as we'd hoped..."

• Listed amongst the favorite web sites of Paul Simms (Creator and Executive Producer of NBC's NEWSRADIO) in the January, 1997 issue of Esquire magazine (pg 49):

  L0pht Heavy Industries
  http://www.L0pht.com
  A hacker's paradise

• In a recent issue of the skate rag Thrasher, a reader's published letter included a drawing of a skater wearing a shirt with the Dead Milkmen logo and the words "Cult of the Dead Cow" underneath.

• In a February 18, 1997 Associated Press story titled, "Young Bards of Today Revive Beatnik Groups of the 1960s", about a Danville, California teen poetry reading group, five alternateens are pictured. Seen clearly in the picture is a large-size cDc sticker.

• BIZARRE magazine, March/April 1997 issue, pg 87. Veggie's Mr. T site is listed, along with this quote: "Jewelry-obsessed A-Team 'actor' hangs out on the Web. Yo, Fool, Who y'talkin' to?" BIZARRE is a British magazine and we suspect that they are none too savvy about URL naming conventions (they listed the domain name wrong, for one thing), else they might have realized that Mr.T (Peace be upon him!) has nothing to do with the site, save to be an object of veneration and adoration.

• EE Times, April, 1997, "Hackers Keep the Heat On Windows NT Security". Striking from the hidden fortress of the L0pht, Mudge scores a blow against shoddy Windows NT security. Maybe the boys at Redmond shouldn't take themselves so seriously.

II. MAGAZINE ARTICLES WRITTEN BY cDc MEMBERS

• Compute! magazine, November, 1991, Interview with Bruce Sterling

• Compute! magazine, January 1992, Interview with Clifford Stoll

• Mondo 2000, Issue #8, "Big Brother Isn't Dead, He's Just Subcontracting", pg 14.

• Articles written for Phrack, Informatik

• Articles written for 2600 by Count Zero

• Night magazine, June 1995, "Burning Up the Information Superhighway."

• Internet Underground magazine, Issue 10, September, 1996, pgs 42-45. Our own Paul Leonard wrote the feature article, "Architects of Destruction", summarized as:

  "With the cyberporn debate ceding, the next free speech battle may be over Webmasters who post bomb recipies and other anarchistic materials on the 'net. But just how big a risk are these flawed formulas and dubious files of destruction?"

III. BOOKS MENTIONING cDc OR cDc MEMBERS

• Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling, (paperback edition) pp 70, 78, 86. Or, more specifically, see sections 3 and 5 of the E-text edition.

• Mothers Day, Joshua Quittner & Michelle Slatalla, 1993, St. Martin's Press, ISBN #: 0-312-08850-7

  DRU is mentioned first on pg 104 and continues to page 111 in which there is some stuff direct from DRU with a world domination update with Carrie's "Earth Goo", Obscure's "Ruth", and the Mad Hatter's "Interesting Things to do with a Scanner". Then the protagonist types "CHAT" and somehow manages to talk realtime with the hacker "Phrank." Then she logs off, exhausted.

• The Internet Yellow Pages (2nd Ed), pg 61, mentions cDc and Dark Side of the Net:

  "Are you mad at the world? Do you have disdain for those who have any semblance of normal societal ties? Do you sit in your apartment with the blinds closed and think of new ways to cause discord? Join the Cult of the Dead Cow. Even if you don't care about any of that other stuff, they have a really cool ASCII logo."

• Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace by Josh Quittner, and Michelle Slatella, talks about HoHoCon and mentions Red Knight (MoD, cDc)

• Happy Mutant Handbook, pg 82, mentions cDc and the #cDc IRC channel,

  "These d00dz are dangerous! Hundreds of incredibly witty, well-written files covering everything from simple social engineering to truly wizardlike techno spoofing. ... Get 'em. Read 'em. Trade 'em with mutant kids on local BBSes."

  Pg 83 continues with the Girl Band Guide,

  "Grrrrrllll bands galore. The latest scoop on your fave female bands."

• Sex, Laws and CyberSpace: Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution, by Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan. (ISBN: 0-8050-4767-0) Briefly covers Veggie's brush with pyrotechnic fame.

• Netlaw, by Lance Rose, also covers the Elansky bomb case and Deth Veggie's involvement.

• Osborne's The Internet Yellow Pages, 1997 Edition, Harley Hahn, pg 112, subsection "Computers: Culture"

  The Cult of the Dead Cow is the oldest underground telecommunications organization, dating back to 1984. Although the membership is small -- consisting of only about 20 active members -- their influence is felt around the world. The cult's main product is a series of articles, written at various times by various members, with new articles being added from time to time. The articles are regularly read by thousands of people, so why not expand your mind and give it a try? Do you think you might like to join the cult as a member (as opposed to being an outsider)? Here is a hint: don't ask to join. Cult members are welcomed by invitation only, and once you ask, they will never invite you.

  Despite that there are several books claiming to be "The Internet Yellow Pages", Harley Hahn's is the original and most authoritative.

IV. BOOKS WRITTEN BY OR COLLABORATED WITH THE HELP OF cDc MEMBERS

• The Mondo 2000 A User's Guide to the New Edge, (see pg 317 under "Zones of Temporary Autonomy" -- entries for DRU and Pure Nihilism (now Cool Beans)).

• St. Jude's Cyberpunk Fake Book

• White Wolf Games' The Vitual Adept's Sourcebook -- Tradition Book One for Mage: The Ascension, by Darren McKeeman & Harry Heckel, ISBN 1-56504-114-3, pp 2, 65-66. Expurgated excerpts can be found here.

• White Wolf Games' The Digital Web Sourcebook

• White Wolf Games' The Book of Shadows Sourcebook

• Halting the Hacker: A Practical Guide to Computer Security, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-243718-X. This book contains several tools on CD-ROM written by cDc Hackerlaureate Mudge

V. cDc ON TV

• White Knight on West 57th Street, episode #1

• Deth Veggie on Dateline NBC, Sept 1, 1994, "Dial in for Mayhem".

• L0pht.com on C|NET CENTRAL (Sci-Fi Channel) in early October, 1995

• Geraldo episode titled "Computer Vice". Geraldo Rivera said:

  "Cult of the Dead Cow?!... These guys are a bunch of Sickos!" (while pointing to a copy of Sex With Satan, cDc #40)

• "CyberMania" on TBS, November 6th, 1994; featured interviews with Deth Veggie and Count Zero.

• Deth Veggie mentioned on CNN regarding Elansky bomb-recipe case.

• Deth Veggie on TV recently on a show called "Forbidden Places" (aired around October 6th, 1995) with an interview that was taped at DefCon III.

• Lady Carolin's "Dark Side of the Web" was featured Oct 28, 1995 on CNN's "Computer Chronicles" in a piece about Halloween-themed web sites. The newscaster said that parents would definitely want to look at the site before informing their kids of its existence. (Like they're not going to find it if they're into that kind of stuff... duh.)

• Sighted on a recent episode of MTV's SPRING BREAK: a guy jumps out of his chair and runs away; stuck to the chair is a cDc sticker.

• When C|NET wants to do a feature show on Internet Terrorism and the First Ammendment, they contact cDc. Naturally. See the write-up for their August 11, 1996 episode.

• Featured on PBS's The Internet Cafe, air-date October 2, 1996, members of the Cult of the Dead Cow talk briefly about the cyberscape they have dominated for more than a decade. Our own Lady Carolin was also featured on the October 22, 1996 episode of this show, talking about the "Dark Side of the Net".

• Deth Veggie was interviewed for CBC Newsworld's technology review "Futureworld" on October 27, 1996 by an editor from Shift magazine. The angle was 'Hacking for Dummies' and the large one endured every "please teach me hacking" question in the book. The interviewer continually prodded Veggie to hack CBC's website (ho hum). Veggie also discussed cDc's role as technical advisor for Chinese hacker/activists the Hong Kong Blondes - operational in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing - who are busy disabling military/security networks in mainland China. Payback's a bitch!

• cDc's "Hacker Playground" The L0pht was shown on the New England Cable News Network on March 14, 1997 on a segment titled "Hacker Heroes".

• Veggie has also recently been interviewed for episodes of The Internet Cafe's "Weird of the Web" (air-date April 25, 1997) and C|NET's "The Web", which aired on the SCI-FI channel April 13th, 1997. cDc's own Grand High Sifu, Tweety Fish was featured on the same "Weird of the Web" episode, talking about his GO-FORCE project!

VI. cDc ON RADIO

• KPFA Radio, Berkeley, California, September, 1992, "Kids and Technology" or, loosely paraphrased, "Should kids have access to technology or will it turn them into evil hackers?" cDc guest speaker interviewed. Broadcast picked up and re-broadcast by National Public Radio.

• Deth Veggie on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) regarding HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference in August, 1995 in New York.

VII. cDc ON VIDEO

• HoHoCon '92 through HoHoCon '94

• Unauthorized Access by Annaliza Savage.

• Hackers -- cDc stickers can be seen in the movie.

• UNAUTHORIZED Unauthorized Access will be done soon, and will feature cDc members, and have KnightVision & cDcTV production credits, courtesy of Annaliza Savage and White Knight.

VIII. MISC

• Lady Carolin's WWW page is listed in the Top 5% by Point Communications, and was also mentioned in the October or November editions of: c|net, Net Guide, .Net, Net, Online Access, Interactive Weekly, Internet World, and the November 3rd issue of Entertainment Weekly. Also, her Frida Kahlo page has been voted one of c|net Central's Best of the Web. Lady Carolin was also made the GNN Celebrity Hotlist, Week of August 22, 1995.

• Tequila Willy is cited on the Celebrities in Cognitive Science webpage. In support of his thesis, the renowned John R. Searle refers to Tequila Willy's advanced philosophical ruminations in cDc #289.

• Not surprisingly, Deth Vegetable has been voted "Most Entertaining Speaker" at the DefCon III hackers' convention -- and by none other than the PHONE LOSERS OF AMERICA -- for his extemporaneous talk on why "The Media Sucks."

• The ARG Network Security Course has an entire section on the Cult of the Dead Cow. For $1,295, ARG will give you the inside scoop on us. Their course outline includes:
  • Famous (or infamous) security breaches
    • The Internet Worm: Robert Morris.
      • Using E-mail to affect system availability
    • The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll 1989)
      • Unlawful information access
    • The felonious "Phone Phreak": Kevin Mitnick
      • Social engineering and address spoofing
    • Cult of the Dead Cow
      • Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists newsletter

• A Fact-Sheet Five bibliography mentions the Bovikazi:

  "'Write On: A Computer is All it Takes to Publish in Cyberspace,' Phoenix Gazette, August 15, 1994. How to start your own electronic zine. Mentions Holy Temple of Mass Consumption, Cropduster, Cult of the Dead Cow, ... Girl Band Guide ..."

• Any plan to subvert the masses wouldn't be complete without the influence of rock 'n roll. "Cracker Gasoline Party", the latest work from Swamp Ratte's band WEASEL-MX, is reviewed in the March 25th issue of the DiY List:
  

  Weasel-MX
  Cracker Gasoline Party [***]
  Very cool collection of hip-hop cut with guitar riffs and punctuated with in-your-face vocals and diverse approaches (try to imagine the Sex Pistols and ZZ Top together at last with a kitchen sink conglomeration of polka, disco, hee haw and more). Definitely not a one-song band! While the mix is mostly good throughout, the tape sounds muddy (so turn it up).