Hey yall, I have posted a second video from my upcoming album "Ordinary Heroes". The song is called Elwood and it's about my ancestor Elwood Harvey, an underground railroad conductor in Pennsylvania. The album is nowhere near done, but expect it in the spring or summer of 2011. Dig it.

Also, I did an interview with the folks from the War Resister's League recently and it's now online. It touches on organizing, riot-folk, some of my songs, the against me! controversy, and other things...

Hey yall, Riseup.net, to whom who owe eternal gratititude for making the Riot-Folk website and extensive downloads possible (which happens to be the crux of how we get our music and words out there) is asking for help! They are trying to stay afloat to continue offering their invaluable services to the radical online community, providing secure email, web hosting, email lists, and more to folks working for social justice. PLEASE SUPPORT THEM if you are in a spot to offer some cash!

My newest album is finally, after 2 1/2 years, ready. I started it several times and just couldn't find the time and energy to finish it, but recently Mark and I just pushed through it and made a beautiful CD. Please support this by getting the album, which I am hoping folks can put $10 down for. I did all the artwork for it myself, the painting, collage, layout, recording, mixing, and song-writing. Mark helped a lot with recording and wrote one of the songs as well. It also features many guest artists who added their talents to the soundscape. I'm digging it, I hope you do too.

Hey friends!

We're leaving tonight for Baby Saoirse's first tour ever, 22 shows across GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, NETHERLANDS, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, AND WALES.

the main shows page is being wonky, so for a list of updated shows, click here!

if you're in europe or know anyone over there, please spread the word about these shows!

hope to see you soon!

xo, - evan g

I made this video of me singing my new song "Tea Party" and giving a rant afterwards on my thoughts on the tea party movement. Check it out and pass it around!

I'm setting out to do a video like this every 2 weeks, all songs from my upcoming album "Ordinary Heroes" which is still in the laboratory. But every 2 weeks til it's just about done a new song with a video and rant will be up here!

The RNC 8 received some surprising news Thursday afternoon - charges against Luce Guillen-Givins, Monica Bicking and Eryn Trimmer have been dropped!

Also, piracy activists have carried out coordinated attacks on websites owned by the music and film industry.

My friend Sarah has finally been released by the Iranian governemnt after a year in prison. Word is that Shane and Josh will spend at least another 2 months in jail. They were falsely accused of spying after hiking over the Iraq-Iran border while spending time in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Hey folks, here's a real easy way you can help me out! I entered my song "Picketline Song" in the Union Song Contest, and if I get the most votes I could win a much needed $2,000, which would be enough for me to release a new CD! 

You have to register to vote, but it doesn't take long.

Please take a moment to vote for me here: http://members.unionsongcontest.org/entries

Thanks!, -Evan G

Yay! Our baby is finally here!

Saoirse Dahy Giolligan Fitzgerald-Greer was born at our home in Boston on August 14th, 2010 at 2:25am, weighing in at 7 lbs and 21.5 inches tall!

I'm working on writing down the story of our wonderful labor, which will be posted soon. We are so greatful for the amazing team of friends, midwives, and our doula who supported us through the birth, which was to say the least the most incredible experience of my life. Saoirse's name is pronounced "Seer-Sha" and means "freedom" in Irish-Gaelic. Baby is very healthy and happy and eats pretty much all the time.

So does this mean that I'll be "settling down" and getting a "real job?" Nope. Baby Saoirse and my amazing partner Erin Ryan will be coming with me on several tours this year including Europe in October, Northeast in November, Southeast in February, and West Coast in April. Get in touch NOW if you want to bring us to your town, we'd love to come! E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com if you have any ideas for us!

Currently music is our little family's only source of income, so if you want to support us and keep us on the road offering political music and workshops, now would be a great time to buy one of my CDs or make a donation for the music you download. You can do that at www.evangreer.org or www.cdbaby.com/evangreer

Me and Brenna's new project, Lightnin' Seed, is going on a tour of the US next March and April. We'll be giving workshops about herbal medicine, singing our songs about herbs and storms and wildcrafting along the way. And we've been working on some dance moves you won't believe. If you can help set up a show or a workshop in any of the following places, email us at riotherb@gmail.com: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Northern California, Oregon (especially on the coast) and Washington. Thanks! Herb nerds unite!!!

Holy crap. After 3 years I'm finally taking myself on a tour again! I've been working hard at the jobby job, but I need to be singing songs more. So I'm doing 2 things tentatively right now:

1. Upstate NY, Canada, and a bit of Vermont: MID-OCTOBER

2. Southeast (my first SE tour!), VA to FLA , GA, NC: MID-NOVEMBER

Email me at if you've got ideas or wanna help out at all... See ya soon.

well, still no baby yet, but little Saoirse should be joining us any day now! in case you didn't know, we're taking our baby to EUROPE this OCTOBER, and we still need a little help with booking shows and workshops in GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, IRELAND, ENGLAND, and WALES.

e-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com if you can help us with contacts or suggestions for baby-safe places to stay, cheap vegan food to eat, cute queers to meet, etc!

so i didn't think i'd be playing any more shows until after our baby comes, which is very very soon! but then this popped up super last minute.

come out TOMORROW, TUESDAY JULY 27th to check out boston's newest queer-femme pop-punk band, BLAME THE PATRIARCHY plus some awesome touring folks who need your support.

it all goes down around 8:30pm @ Wallingford Museum in Brighton. E-mail me or kaitentou@gmail.com if you don't know where it is!

Tuli Kupferberg, cartoonist, poet, activist and founding member of the proto-folkpunk band the Fugs died yesterday at the age of 86. Tuli was an uncompromising critic of everyone and everything, a mad Jewish revolutionary songweaver who straddled the gaps between generations, bridging hippie, beatnik, punk, and folk subcultures into a great, steaming pile of gor nischt.

He was a dirty old man, he will be missed and I hope he is giving out funny cigarettes and Communist literature in that great schoolyard in the sky. Check out the classic Fugs songs "Nothing" , "CIA Man" and Tuli singing "Where Is My Wandering Jew?"

so as some of you already know, my partner Erin Ryan and I are having a baby this summer! we're super excited and it's getting really close!

we're planning to take the little one on their first big tour in OCTOBER in EUROPE and we need your help finding shows, and baby-safe places to stay!!!

we're open to ideas, but right now we're mainly looking for gigs in the following countries: GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, and ENGLAND.

E-mail: evangreer@gmail.com if you can help with contacts in any of those places! Thanks so much!

Hey everyone, I have a blog now! It's called EVEN IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES. It's all my articles/essays I've written over the years.

Come out for a east coast/west coast Riot Folk explosion of wonderfulness June 29th, 7:00 at Red Emma's 800 St. Paul St. Adhamh, Brenna, Ryan, Mark, oh my! Bring canned or dry food for a friend who was in a car accident and needs all the grub she can get.

I'm coming to Chicago, Detroit, and Austin ,TX to do shows associated with Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Civilian-Soldier Alliance! Check out the SHOWS section for details.

My friend Tristan, nearly killed last year by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Nil'in, is back in California!! Check out info here.

US activist loses eye after being shot in the face with a tear gas canister in the West Bank during protests against Israel's murder of at least 10 people onboard the Free Gaza boats.

Check out a new article I wrote and that Common Dreams published. It's an update on the situation on the ground in Iraq and suggestions for a staggering anti-war movement. And check out the organization I helped build and work with, the Civilian-Soldier Alliance.

Also, folks might be interested to hear Tom Gabel of Against Me's thoughts on their new single "I Was A Teenage Anarchist". Having opened for AM early on in my song-writing, and seeing their popularity surge in the last few years, I have mixed feelings about the direction they chose, but also sympathize with their bitterness at the scene they, and I, came out of. Read it here.

Everyone needs to get their hands on Silence Broken, a brand new compilation CD released by the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee. Proceeds will go to support Tarek Mehanna, a muslim and arab political prisoner who has been targeted by the FBI for refusing to become an informant against his own community.

The CD features tons of brand new original material about Tarek's case and related issues, and amazing acts including REBEL DIAZ, CLIMBING POETREE, X-VANDALS (members of Public Enemy and RIcanstruction), HASAN SALAAM, BROADCAST LIVE, TAINA ASILI Y LA BANDA REBELDE.

It's also got a remix of my song, By Morning featuring the words of Ida Luz Rodgriguez, a Puerta Rican political prisoner, read by Boston's revolutionary band Presente.

BUY THE CD HERE: http://freetarek.bandcamp.com/

Holy Crap! I put new MP3s up! Check em out. They're from my newest recordings and some from the Manifest Democracy album. They are demo recordings, not finished yet.

The Arizona state legislature approved the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, giving police the authority to determine people's immigration status based on "reasonable suspicion" or more bluntly put, the right to racially profile immigrants. Please sign this petiton immigration.change.org/petitions/view/tell_governor_brewer_to_stand_up_for_arizona_and_veto_sb1070 and call Governor Jan Brewer at (602) 542-4331 demanding she not allow AZ to be turned into a police state. And do it soon! This could be signed into law within a couple days.

Hey yall. My friend Bobby Whittenberg has released his first album, "No Gods No Master Sergeants". Bobby is a Marine corps veteran of the Iraq war, and now embraces anarchism with a solid critique of violence and war. CHECK OUT HIS SONGS!

hey all,

 so the riot-folk site has a little glitch that deletes the shows we're playing on the day of the show so all you nice people can't see em!

our show tonight on the Generations of Resistance tour is in Cincinnati. we've got a 3pm workshop at the University and a 8pm concert at The Vatican in Newport, KY

apparently my myspace isn't working to get show details either, so for now, you can visit Anne Feeney's website for all our tour dates: www.annefeeney.com/calender.html

if yer still havin trouble finding us, shoot me an e-mail: evangreer@gmail.com and i'll lead you to the gig.

thanks!
-evan n anne
generations of resistance tour

Check out this interview I did with the Kingston, Ontario based radical Jewish radio show, Radio 613 radio613.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/episode-36-riot-folk-an-interview-with-mark-gunnery/

Hey yall, a bunch of new videos have been posted of me performing new songs. There's a few of me in NY, playing "Blowback", "Placing the Blame", "American Mythology", and "Terry Whitmore" from my yet-to-be-released album "Blowback" also known as "Manifest Democracy", as well as videos of me doing "Talkin' Mean Machine" and "Search and Avoid".

There's also another video of me doing "Ordinary Heroes", a brand new songs dedicated to Howard Zinn, at a United Workers function in Baltimore.

hey friends!

i'm leaving next week for tour with Anne Feeney, who's a seriously bad-ass radical feminist labor singer from Pittsburgh. we're calling it Generations of Resistance, and we'll be playing and singing together, accompanying each other on a range of acoustic instruments, and offering interactive workshops on neat stuff like radical feminism, organizing skills, and eco justice.

check the shows page for dates across the MIDWEST and NORTHEAST in APRIL!

xo,

-evan g

Please check out the U.S. for All of Us call to action and statement of commitment, sign it and get involved. www.usforallofus.org/  At this moment in US history where barely veiled racism in the form of tea parties, anti-immigration groups and anti-healthcare protests is mobilizing many white people, it is of vital importance that white anti-racists step up and organize to fight for a truly just, inclusive world and country where there is no room for racism. This is a good start.

For those who are wondering just what the deal is with my new album, Manifest Democracy (or some other name), here's the deal. I've been working on this thing for over a year and a half, writing the songs, recording them slowly, trying to add the right spices to it. I have beautiful cover art for it and big ideas. In the meantime, I've started writing songs for an even newer release, which aims to be a lot of positive energy (this album is pretty haunting).

So, it's nearing compleition. I was trying to release it this month, but my computer died last week and much of the album is on it. So I'm waiting for a friend to extract the files, then I'm gonna save some cash and try to get myself a new used-machine, and get it back together.

That said, please consider buying it when it comes out, cuz it's got a lot of time and energy stuffed into it. I will start posting MP3s up as I finish them, hopefully within the month.

I crumbled and chipped up a bone in my elbow in December. So all winter tour plans have been put on hold. It is a long recovery... Sorry sorry sorry says sad little the elbowless folk-singer:(

I posted up a new album of my electronic music. Enjoy. And I'll be on tour in the southern US with Slow Teeth the first week and a half of February.

Damn. I don't know where to start. Howard Zinn turned things upside down and rightside up again, and the work he put into the telling of history, the stories he amplified, the justice he spread through his words and actions, has been a gift to my generation and those to come. A People's History was the first real book I read, and it turned a young man who hated history into a young, eager historian! So, onward! Continue making history, and a new generation of grassroots historians will continue to put the work in to record it and pass it along to the future generations, so they can learn from an expand on our work.

Read it, write it, teach it, make it!

Iraq Veterans Against the War benefit show TONIGHT, Studio 34, West Philly, 4522 Baltimore Ave. With Ryan Harvey, Erik Petersen, a wee bit of Mark Gunnery, and more!

Come through. 7:00 PM

Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

Hey yall. I re-uploaded The Good Times and the Bad album so you can download it again. Sorry for the confusion. I also re-uploaded my split with Tom Frampton. And I posted a new writing, "Mythology in the Age of Seattle".

I wrote a song on new year's eve/day sort-of summing up the decade in a way. It's called Blowback. Also, expect my new album, Manifest Democracy, in the next month or two!

Full Story Here.

Stop-lossed Army Specialist Marc Hall (aka Hip Hop artist Marc Watercus) was placed in the Liberty County Jail Friday, December 11 for releasing a song critical of the Army's Stop-Loss policies and of the War in Iraq. He was shipped off to jail after talking to to his Ft Stewart, Georgia commander Captain Cross about not wanting to redeploy. Call the jail at 912-876-6411 to demand an end to this illegal confinement. Also send letters of protest to: CPT Cross, Commander, B 2-7 INF BN, Fort Stewart GA 31314.

hey friends,

 just letting you all know that i've posted tentative dates for my upcoming Southeast Tour with queer fabulist / puppeteer, GEPETTA!

check out my SHOWS PAGE to see our tentative route!

if you don't see your town listed, e-mail me now at evangreer@gmail.com and hopefully we can come!

thanks for your support.

-evan g

Hey yall. Me and Mark performed recently in Frederick, MD and they filmed a bit of it. It's available here. Songs include "My Country", "Bored", "Talkin' Mean Machine" and "The Dandelions/Eucalyptus Hybrid Song (or something)". Check it out.

Hey all. Anything I sell today, Veteran's Day, will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War. I suggest buying "The Violence of War" if you haven't. Or just donate to them directly anytime by going to www.ivaw.org. Better yet, email every soldier and veteran you know and tell them about IVAW.

Michael Franti, Tom Morello, Boots Riley, and others are also donating all of their sales today to IVAW. So if you feel like participating there too, go help em' out more by checking out the new Street Sweeper album, or Tom's new "Fabled City".

Also, read IVAW's letter in-protest to Obama, handed to him yesterday at Fort Hood by a war-resister in the barracks. And read Matthis Chrioux's veteran's day statement.

This Winter, I'll be touring the southeast with Gepetta, a queer fabulist puppet performance artists based in Philly. We'll be performing a unique blend of radical folk music, puppetry, and performance art, and offering interactive workshops on Queer and Trans Liberation, Confronting Gentrification, Climate Justice, Community Organizing, and more! WE NEED YOUR HELP! Contact: evangreer@gmail.com if you have any ideas with us or can help with booking at your school or in your town.

Hey y'all. I just finished uploading Patchwork and Threadbare, the album that's taken 2 years too long to birth!

hey tucson friends, just FYI our show has been moved from the Dry River Infoshop to the Carousel Project, and will now start at 9pm. 299 S. Park Ave, Tucson. Spread the word! see you there!

Audio Here. I was interviewed recently on Against the Grain, a radio program on KPFA radio in Berkeley. The interview was around my article Are We Addicted to Rioting, and discusses anarchist organizing and U.S. social movements, mass-protests, militant protest, and more. Check it out!

Two AMAZING Afghan activist/organizers are touring the U.S. ths and next month. Right now Zoya, from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is doing a speaking tour. Next month, Malalai Joya, Afghan Parliament member and radical activist, is touring the U.S. speaking. PLEASE see these women speak if you are near an event. A full calendar of their tours is lcoated here.

I uploaded the first public track from my new album, Manifest Democracy. The track is called Placing The Blame, and is available for download. I'll post more soon.

Please consider giving this article I just published a read. Share it. It's a G20/Pittsburgh protest inspired article. It's got a lot in it that I think Riot-Folk listeners should take some notes on... It's been a long time coming. Also, below the article is a response from Crimethinc, which I have posted. They have posted my article as well... to promote healthy dialogue and conversation. Also please read the string on infoshop.org and indybay.org, there's some really in-depth conversation emerging from this article.

A friend filmed this in Boulder a few weeks ago, I did a benefit for Students for Peace and Justice out there. It's me singing a song from my new unreleased CD. The song is called Roulette Wheel. Watch the video here.

Also, I found this video of me speaking at the City From Below conference in Baltimore. The topic is the living wage campaign at the baseball stadium, I'm speaking about being an effective ally and struggling with affected people to achieve changes.

I started uploading the collected writings of me and Mark Gunnery's zine Even If Your Voice Shakes. Even If is an occassionally-published booklet of mostly original articles, essays and interviews on the topics of music, politics, the politics of music, and political issues dealt with in the "music world". Dig it. Much more still to come, this is just a few writings from issues 1-3.

Hey everyone!
Evan here. So I'm so so excited to be touring this Fall with Albany's radical hip-hop trio, BROADCAST LIVE! We'll be going all over the place, so get in touch if you want us to come to your town!

For all you northeast folks, we have two big shows before we leave for the big tour:

THIS FRIDAY in BOSTON
6pm @ Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave, South End
With: AfroDZak All Starz and Adelaide Windsome

THIS SATURDAY in BROOKLYN
Benefit for the Indypendent Newspaper DANCE PARTY
9pm @ Starr Street Loft
207 Starr Street, Bushwick
With: REBEL DIAZ!

More info, directions, etc, on my shows page (which has been fixed and now displays properly!) Learn more about the tour here: www.broadcastive.org/epk

Iraqi labor leaders have teamed up with Iraq Veterans Against the War and US Labor Against the War and are touring East Coast cities right now! GO HERE and catch an event. You will not regret it.

Some friends of Riot Folk from Actor Slash Model just released RIOT ACTS: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, a documentary film about transgender musicians. Riot Acts will be premiering Sunday September 6th @ Glasslands 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 at 7pm.
 

An article I wrote, Many Different Enemies - Afghan Women Fight for Their Country, was published today on CommonDreams. Dig it.

Hey yall. I updated some of my albums, posting demo tracks for my album Soldier By Soldier. I also just posted a brand new article I've been working on, an analysis of the supposed "withdrawal" from Iraq... please read it, it's full of info and will hopefully aid an understanding of what exactly is going on with U.S. forces in Iraq. Thanks.

I am hard at work with 8 other folks opening up a community space in Bemidji.  We named it the Root Cellar Community Space and we are hoping to have it open by late September.  The outdoor space is already up and running. The community garden is amazing!!  Folks working on that project are getting ready to break new ground for more plots for next year.  I am excited to have the indoor space and lending library finally open and to finish the renovation stage!!!

As always, we are coming up with a shortfall of money, which has been a bit stressful as my partner and I are taking on the financial burden until we open and can have events and fundraisers at the space. Mainly the place needs roofing repair before winter, so I am planning to head out for a few mini-tours to raise some funds for it.  If anyone wants to set up a fundraiser for our project, or joint fundraisers for awesome projects in your areas that would be sweet. Also- if anyone has contacts at colleges who may want to set up a show at their school, send em my way.  I am looking to raise around $3,000 for the roof and another $2,000 for other repairs including a new chimney.

love from minnesota!

Hey everyone!
So excited that the site is back online. Just wanted to let you know that I posted the dates for my upcoming tour with BROADCAST LIVE, who are an amazing radical live hip hop band from Albany. We're calling it STEEL STRINGS & BREAK BEATS and we'll be looping a good part this so-called country Mid-October thru November.

We'll be rocking some awesome shows and also offering workshops at colleges, high schools, and community centers.

We really need your HELP booking and promoting these shows, so please get in touch if you can book us, help hand out flyers, or if your group wants to come table or make announcements at our events!  E-mail me: evangreer@gmail.com if you can help! Thanks so much for your ongoing support.

-Evan G

Sorry for that long-ass wait yall. Site is live now.

A lot of us have been really busy lately, working, learning new skills, working through hard personal times, starting community spaces in home-towns, growing food, and brewing up plans to write books and essays. Others have been working hard making hot new music but with no website to help promote and distribute their music. Thanks to Micah, our friend and programmer, we have a newly designed, less-hackable, and more functional website.

Things will still be a bit slow as we re-upload songs and re-enter lyrics and other info. But you can start relying on this site again  for our shows, new songs, etc.

Stay tuned, ans thanks for being patient! And thanks Micah!

woohoo, the new riot-folk site is back up, and i just re-uploaded all the tracks for my new CD, "NEVER SURRENDER." check it out if you haven't already. 15 brand new recordings featuring a full band of amazing friends including Anne Feeney, Emma's Revolution, members of Broadcast Live, Taina Asili, and more!!!

Please support independent music if you can by ordering a copy, or donating online for the music that you download! Thanks so much!

-Evan G