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is a punk label run by Sean Gray and the Baltimore-based Chris Berry that's put out swell music from the likes of Drunkdriver,
, Clockcleaner, and Ringo Deathstar, among others. Fan Death is also largely responsible for the now-mammoth DNA Test Fest, which moves to Baltimore this year from Washington, D.C. Berry and Gray did this
some time ago with All Our Noise, in which Gray lets this fly:
The
Washington City Paper
put up a blog post about the the slam, igniting a comment shit storm and, incredibly, a print
about D.C.'s most "butt hurt" by the criticism. (There was more, but that's the bulk of it.) It was kinda funny, but mainly just helped prove Gray's point. In a later e-mail to
WCP
, he wrote: "We are just 2 record nerds. And the fact that 2 nerds who run a no-name punk label that isn't even in D.C. can shit on 2 soft targets and make tons of people butt-hurt is telling of how lame the city actually is when it comes to crappy 'indie' music/culture or whatever it is those bands are into."
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This morning, Gray wrote in an e-mail to Noise: "i think the article speaks for it self, it's telling when that story has been run three times. we are too busy putting out records and keeping up with off season O's and white sox news to even give a shit anymore."
