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Hey! Unfortunately, our time as a band has come to an end. However, we still have a bunch of great merch that we would like to sell. All the money will be donated to assist the people of Ferguson, MO. -You can buy shirts here -and you can donate what you'd like for a downloaded version of our demos. -and you can order physical copies of the first demo from Reality is A Cult Thanks! You can always email us at [email protected] to talk! Thanks for all the support!!!

#written by viva #anomaly #anomaly chicago #chicago punk #chicago queer core #queercore #ferguson #mo #acab

Our last show until the winter is August 20th! I, Viva, will be moving to Austin, Texas the 22nd of August for a year. Anomaly will still be an active band, we are just taking a short break to gather ourselves again. Catch us at Dee Dee's one last time before it snows!! Let's get funky! https://www.facebook.com/events/667815196640455/ https://www.facebook.com/events/667815196640455/ https://www.facebook.com/events/667815196640455/

#anomaly #anomaly d2k #anomaly chicago #anomaly austin #hey anomaly AUSTIN

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anomaly//fed up fest//7.27.2014

No Hay Verguenza - Para el barrio, This song is for the neighborhoods that are taken from PoC. The homes we are kicked out of to accommodate white folk, the restaurants, small businesses, the styles and languages that have been striped from us. Our culture, our smell, our hair, our accent, our everything, is ours. It is not to be glamorized or tokenized. We are not here to paint you pretty murals on 18th street. We aren’t here to be your friend,nor are we here to hold your hand while you work through your white guilt and white supremacy, we’re here to take back what is ours. You’re not trendy because you were Azteca patterns. This idea that being brown is ‘in’, but yet we have never been accepted. White folk have appropriated everything that PoC have, and get all the praise. But not anymore, We’re here. No se puede negar nuesta indentidad y tu puedes negar que existimos pero no nos vamos a desaparecer! Limpia -The past year has been emotionally and mentally exhausting. I have tried my best to power through it. It is a battle not only to get out of bed every morning, but to go outside. I hide myself in my room for days and hope to visit coffee shops, the grocery store, my own place of employment without fear. Without checking over my shoulder to see if someone I know has hurt is me is there. I question whether or not I am welcome in certain public spaces, scope out restaurants before seating. This song is about being afraid to leave your room, to talk at all, to check your inbox on tumblr, to be alive sometimes. I wrote this while catching a flight to Austin, Texas. This song is about self growth, self care, and being your own priority even if that means dropping out of punk, leaving things unfinished and taking a step back to take two steps forward. Liberación -Por mi familia, mi sangre, mis amigos. For the white people who see us (Latinx) as nothing more than ‘gangbangers’ ‘hood rats’. We are people too. We are allowed to be violent and loud too. For the children lost in the deserts, the families broken apart by border portal, for the people who pick our fruit for less than a dollar an hour. The government tells us they do not want us here because we are dangerous, because we bring crime and drugs. The war on drugs no es a war on drugs, it is a war on brown and black people. They do not want us here because we brown, because they are afraid. For the undocumented, the family members who can not return to their home country in fear of deportation, the bilingual children who speak for their parents at the doctor, the people who are trained to hate themselves because we are not white, because our skin cracks under the sun, because our eyes are not blue or green, because our accent slips out when we get excited. Y tambien para los ninos we leave behind, the ones who fall into the cracks, who go missing either in the desert to find a better home, or go missing in their neighborhood trying to do what they can to make ends meet. For the police officers who shame us, spit on us, beat us, who fear us.

#written by viva galindo

Two photos captured on tour by Isabella who came on tour with us. One in Philly and the other in Montreal! Thank you @not-yr-fucking-mother.

#anomaly #anomaly summer tour

Official recap of Anomaly's Summer Tour. D2K. These are all of the great crew pictures we took on tour!

#anomaly #anomaly summer tour

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Just us taking naked crew pics with our prvs at the beach.

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Anomaly being naked as usual

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NEW episode of Homoground airs today on BBoxradio.com at 1pm EST.

Featuring bands playing at FED UP Fest - Chicago’s Queercore fest: The Homewreckers / In School / Sorrows / Anomaly / Force Quit / Groke / Peeple watchin’

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Homoground podcast is up!!!!!! so stoked!

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Check out the new Homogrounds Podcast not only featuring us but several other bands who will be playing Sunday night at Fed Up Fest!

We have these cool new shirt design made by our best friend Ryan Stanis go snag one up here! http://anomalychi.bandcamp.com/merch/tired-of-keeping-quiet-shirt we'll throw in buttons, zines and a cool drawings and hello kitty stickers

#Anomaly #anomaly chicago #Chicago Punk #queercore #fed up fest #queer punk

ANOMALY VS TOWNSHIP: The TRUE story REVEALED or the truth EXPOSED

****Some shit went down at a show, and through the grape vine we’ve heard a million different stories about what has happened so we’re just gonna write some stuff to bring our own clarification to the table. ***** CONFIRM: As a band, we take strong interest in speaking about issues that are pertinent to the world and important to us. Since we’ve been a band, our lyrics have included issues that include survivorship. More often than not we take time during our sets to speak towards the symptoms of rape culture. Our sentiments includes how we are all capable of hurting others and being hurt and that it should be in our collective consciousness to continue to learn how we can treat each other with the utmost respect. CONFIRM: At the Spraynard/Dowsing/Richard Album show at Township, James intended to about sexual violence and accountability as we usually do. Two sentences in, the mic was turned off and James was then told to “shut up and play another song” followed by several masculine perceived voices agreeing loudly. James then said some sentences about being silenced and being accountable and began to play the next song. Viva fired some shots with people they have problems with. After the song was over, Tyler tried to say something on the microphone because we were all totally enraged. The sound guy then turned the mic off again, put on the house music and told us our set was over. We didn’t appreciate that too much, and reacted very strongly. While James was still crying, Andres was confused and probably dancing to the house music, Viva decided to remind the sound guy that he is a boring ass white guy and that he must have it so hard. Tyler then went into dad mode! Like a protective lion with some baby cubs. While a lot of “fuck you” shouting and finger pointing happened, Alex spat beer on the sound guy. DENY: None of the songs are about some dudes who live in some show space near some hot dog stand that is getting shut down. In fact 3/5th of anomaly don’t know who any of you are and don’t care and 5/5th of us are just mad at that fucking sound guy. For explanations and lyrics to the songs, you can find them on our bandcamp, demo tape inserts, and tumblr page. DENY: Unfortunately James did not try and start a riot and actually probably wouldn’t even have the guts to. Since when is talking about rape culture hate speech? DENY: TylerxBonam formerly of RazorXFade, BoilingXOver, XPoisonXPlanetX did not spit any beer at anyone. Unless Tyler is lying. In which that case someone call edge watch. DENY: Andres was not asked to go on a world tour with Spraynard and Dowsing. Stop asking. CONFIRM: we hope to play on a boat some day. CONFIRM: The actual issue of the show is that we had the mic shut off while we were talking about the violence and submission ensued on peoples bodies and voices. Focusing on drama is divergent and dismissive of the fact that an incredibly problematic scenario occurred, only furthering our aforementioned sentiment that we attempted to speak towards.

Dubbing these to tape one by one. Getting ready for our tour that starts in 6 days that we are nowhere near ready for

#Anomaly #Chicago punk #DIY #Summer tour 2014 no regrets