Why Bother - A Year of Mutations LP xx1970 or come crashing over the

or come crashing over the city in an instant

His classics (and a handful of covers

a swirl of quiet melody and imagined landscapes

Gideon Coe and Henry Rollins amongst others

They felt like a contemporary take on the music I’d just discovered on Chapter Music’s Can't Stop It: Australian Post-Punk compilations

Why Bother - A Year of Mutations LP xx1970 or come crashing over theFrom Feel It In the heart of the heartland, a mere ten miles from where the airplane carrying Buddy Holly crashed into a frozen cornfield, lies Mason City, Iowa. A town so small that it's pre pandemic punk scene (with 20+ bands) went almost entirely unnoticed. That is, until the music of WHY BOTHER? and the "Punk on the Plains" compilations (curated by WB? drummer Paul), were made available by Tremendo Garaje one of YouTube's most obsessive gateways