music & feature journalist, critic, and fan of the old school...
Greetings friends, fans, bands, and family. My name is Jason Walsh and I am a freelance writer for several outlets, concentrating mainly on independent music, but cover any worthwhile story or topic, because since I can remember in this life, I've loved to write, no matter the subject or the lack of one.
My roots in hardcore, punk, and metal go back to a childhood at the Jersey shore where I discovered skateboarding and Slayer around the same time, which later graduated to hardcore when I relocated to rural Pennsylvania and a kid at school said, "you like metal, huh. well check this shit out," and lent me the first Suicidal Tendencies and Flipside Vinyl fanzine vol. 2.
This was 1985, and started a lifelong love of all things hardcore and all things that aren't.
So, to write about and voice my opinion seems a natural fit.
Currently, my main outlet to which I contribute is AMP Magazine, and their sister publications, Hails & Horns and Loud Fast Rules (which is a really great old school feeling publication). I am also a regular feature contributor at On Tap Magazine out of Washington D.C., which is the District's local music and arts preview mag. I've also written for Slug Magazine (SLC, Utah), Define the Meaning (NJ), Jersey Beat, AZ Weekly, Folio Weekly (Jacksonville, FL), RVA Mag out of Richmond, New City in Chicago, The Source Weekly in Oregon, Louisville.com, and the now defunct Nin9volt.
This page has been set up to provide a look at some of the work I've done and a point of contact for bands and publications interested in working together. So, enjoy and drop me a line.
Jason Walsh
AMP MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Through Thick and Thin New American Order Ready two Go Safer Sex Kits Marky Ramone Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies Soulfly Conquers the Nation Interview with Al Barr of the Dropkick Murphys Street Dogs & Flatfoot 56 Interview with Mike McColgan of the Street Dogs The Recountdown Tour with Henry Rollins Reverend Horton Heat Some words in a Karaoke bar with Jimmy G of Murphy's Law Strung Out Returns to Perdition Far From Finished Angel City Outcasts CHRIST ON PARADE BLACK 'N BLUE BOWL ARTICLES 2008
Black 'n Blue Bowl 2008 Freddy "Madball" Cricien NEW BLOOD TERROR Talking Shop with Jimmy G Inhuman SICK OF IT ALL THE BOYS FROM TROY ROAD TRIP TO NYC EGH Tears of Frustration LORD EZEC a.k.a. DANNY DIABLO REVIEWS
AWAKE/STRONG INHUMAN EULOGY RECORDINGS REVIEWS, JULY 2008 STREET DOGS TEAR UP THE SHAMROCK FESTIVAL THE DEW TOUR COMES TO BALTIMORE NOTHING TO DREAD FRINGE FESTIVAL COMES TO DC NICK CAVE DIGS THE DISTRICT SEPTEMBER 2008 MUSIC PICKS FOR DC
A STATE OF GRACE IN TROUBLED TIMES DEW TOUR COMES TO SLC STREET DOGS PREVIEW THICK NECKED POLITICS SHIPPIN' OUT TO BOSTON STREET DOGS REVEREND HORTON HEAT DROPKICK MURPHYS STILL CYCO AFTER ALL THESE YEARS STREET DOGS PREVIEW AGNOSTIC FRONT/MADBALL/JASTA PREVIEW Henry Rollins at Headliners Dropkick Murphys November Tour REVEREND HORTON HEAT BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES NEW CITY - CHICAGO ARTICLES ORATORY MACHINE RISE AGAINST The 12th Annual D-Low Memorial Festival CITY BABY RETURNS UNEARTH TOUR Screw Wolf Blitzer, Here's Henry Rollins The Doors Open Again... ASSIGNMENTS
The CMA Awards in Nashville Published Bylines from The Chart
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Benefit for Dr. Tom and Walter "Monsta" Ryan
Random Thoughts in the Age of Obama
Signature models by Marky Ramone and retired Navy SEAL and Artist Patric Carter
signature safe sex kit, radio show, and continuing the musical legacy
Still Cyco after all these Decades
interview with Max Cavalera
November Tour 2008
Politics, the Economy, and the Neverending Wars
sounding off on touring, the economy, elections, and war
2008
End of the Year Tour 2008
dropping some wisdom about the state of the world
the boys from Cali return to where all their troubles began
a few words with the band's new guns
LA Rockers hit the road with the boys from Boston
Sounds of Reunion
NYHC Superbowl in Brooklyn
Ambassador of NYHC
Young Guns Perpetuate the Legacy of Agnostic Front
More Stagedives in the Monitors
Murphy's Law Frontman Tells Tales of the Present and Future
The Dream is Not Dead
Taking Hardcore Worldwide
Brick by Brick Play Their First Black 'n Blue Bowl
Everybody Gets Hurt
The Resurrection
interview
My Turn to Win, Fahrenheit 451 & "Music by People Like Us" comp.
"Last Rites"
the good, the bad, and the truly abyssmal
a look at 15 different releases
ON TAP MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Washington DC
catching up with Mike and Johnny
action sports festival preview
reggae fest to awaken DC
age-old tradition of independent performing arts brought to the District
aussie returns to the 9:30 club
SLUG MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Salt Lake City, UT
The Street Dogs & Flatfoot 56 come to SLC
Bucky Lasek and company hit the ramps in Salt Lake City
In The Venue, SLC
A Conversation with Henry Rollins
Dropkick Murphys
JERSEY BEAT ARTICLES
New Jersey
Beantown Punks Bringing it to Bamboozle
Texas Rockabilly Comes to the Garden State
come to Atlantic City
Suicidal Tendencies return to New Jersey
RVA MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Richmond, VA
richmond, va
richmond, va
LOUISVILLE.COM ARTICLES
Louisville, KY
louisville, ky
Interview with Al Barr
a few words with the Rev before descension on Louisville
return to Louisville
Chicago, IL
Henry Rollins Celebrates the end of the Bush Era
Returns to Chicago with the Gaslight Anthem
AZ WEEKLY MAGAZINE
Tempe, AZ
Cavalera Conspiracy and Soulfly
FOLIO WEEKLY
Jacksonville, FL
Britain's GBH finds their way back to the US
Boston Brutality hits Jacksonville
THE SOURCE WEEKLY ARTICLES
Bend, OR
Bend, Oregon
by Jason Walsh
(published in Ninevolt Magazine, August 2003)
New Orleans 2005
Hurricane Katrina
Adventures in Britain
Jan. 2007
(March 16-19, 2007)
November 2007
Missouri Southern State University 1999-2002
(ahhh...the glory days of an old college journalist...)
various writings from throughout the journey...
