Radio Silence / A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music

The Boston Selected Photography party went off this past Saturday. The whole event was super fun. A huge thank you to Jay, Oliver, and Dan at Bodega, Andrea and Daniel at The OTHERSIDE Café, Kyle, Randy, JJ, Gail, Rusty, Dave, and all the other photographers who couldn’t make it who helped out and made the event so great.

Additional thanks to all the contributors that came out including Al Quint, Theresa Kelliher, Adam Tanner and The Painkiller Crew.

It was incredible to have our friends and family together at such a positive event and we didn’t get arrested which is an achievement for an art opening in Boston these days apparently.

Randy Smith’s portraits from the event are posted on our Flickr page.

Previously: Boston Globe was talking…

Photo: Rusty Moore and his leather jacket c. 1983 by Randy Smith

This past weekend, Radio Silence / Selected Photography made the second stop of its multi-city tour in Burlington, Vermont at the Sanctuary Artsite. We had a huge turnout on Friday night and were able to meet a ton of great Vermonters. On Saturday night Anthony hung out with Rich on The Radiator to do an interview about the book. The mp3 is archived in our podcast section.

We uploaded a bunch of images from the opening to our Flickr page. If anyone has any they took, you can ad them to our Radio Silence Friends group on Flickr. Thanks to Luis Calderin at Okay Okay, Jim Lockridge at Big Heavy World, Rich, Tony, and Aaron at The Radiator, Seven Days, WRUV, the whole Jager Di Paola Kemp crew, John Siddle, Leo Listi, Michael Jager, Steve Francisco, Josh Perrin, Caila Burke, Erica Izenberg, The Wards, and Blowtorch for making the night so great.

Photograph by John Siddle

Chain of Strength, 2008! Not joking… This shot was taken at our Los Angeles release party along with a few other amazing group shots. You can find our favorites from New York and Los Angeles on the Radio Silence Flickr page. All photographs by Jesse Untracht-Oakner.