{"id":1318,"date":"2018-01-22T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2021-11-06T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T22:16:03","slug":"the-orchard-best-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/the-orchard-best-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchard: Best of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a sort of &#8216;best of&#8217; list from last year. These were new to me in the last year, not all are from 2017, and Sole&#8217;s album just came out this year. There were three books that stuck with me in the last few months, they are listed first, and they were immediately engaging.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts &amp; Glory<\/em> \u2013 Roger Miret with Jon Wiederhorn (Lesser Gods Publishing)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/zinnapeopleshistory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The People&#8217;s History of the United States<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Howard Zinn<\/li>\n<li><em>Society of the Spectacle<\/em> \u2013 Guy Debord<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When it comes to music I don&#8217;t know where to begin. There has been a bunch of artists that I have really liked this past year. These are all worth checking out!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Astronautalis \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/astronautalis.bandcamp.com\/album\/cut-the-body-loose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cut the Body Lose<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sole \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sole.bandcamp.com\/album\/let-them-eat-sand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Let Them Eat Sand<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Propagandhi \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/propagandhi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Victory Lap<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Advent \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bridge9.bandcamp.com\/album\/pain-suffering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pain &amp; Suffering<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ZAO \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/officialzao.bandcamp.com\/album\/pyrrhic-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pyrrhic Victory<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walter Gross \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/waltergross.bandcamp.com\/album\/vestige\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Vestige<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dead Cross \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadcross.bandcamp.com\/album\/dead-cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>S\/T<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Loone \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/loone.bandcamp.com\/album\/rivers-our-blood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>River&#8217;s Our Blood<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few labels that are worth checking out. There are so many great bands on these labels, and the majority of the new music I find comes through these channels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blackboxtapes.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Box Tapes Trading Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fakefour.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fake Four Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/getbetterrecords.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Better Records<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bridge9.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridge Nine Records<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a sort of &#8216;best of&#8217; list from last year. These were new to me in the last year, not all are from 2017, and Sole&#8217;s album just came out this year. There were three books that stuck with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/the-orchard-best-of-2017\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114,161],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-january-2018","category-the-orchard","tag-best-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}