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Poet Laureate Jillian Hanesworth on an Anniversary We Never Wanted but Can’t Ignore

(EDITOR’S NOTE — To mark the one-year anniversary of last year’s May 14 racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops supermarket on...

Good Acoustics: A Talk with On The Cinder

(EDITOR’S NOTE — Fresh off their Spring tour which took them through 10 states in the south and Midwest, On The Cinder’s guitarist Jason...

Inspired by Hardcore, Energized by Punk and Ready to Tear Things Up

(Meet the Coffin Dodgers: Flip Hastings, Bass; Ian Michalski, Vocals; Patrick Conley, Guitar, and a man named Tony on the drums.— Images...

ESSAY: Another Day, Another Shooting

I propose America change its emblem from an eagle to the little girl captured in the powerful and heartbreaking photo (on this page)taken...

ESSAY: The Crankshaft

(Editor's Note — Writer Gerry Dempsey was born and raised in Buffalo, NY and now lives in North Carolina. Gerry also has far more...

Getting Gritty with Broken Locker

Meet ‘Broken Locker,’ a punk band from Buffalo NY. Comprised of guitarist Mike Clifford, bassist Chris Gibbo and drummer Jeff Szatkowski,...

Sitting Down with Punk Bassist and Cartoonist Andrew Burgess

1120 Press was introduced recently to the excellent comic book 'Chaotic Neutral,' thanks to Buffalo’s Hertel Avenue jewel Gutter Pop...

Essay: Bucket List in Retrospect

(Editor's Note — Jessica Madeline Pasko is a California-based writer and self-proclaimed bon vivant.) “No, actually, I remember when I...

ESSAY: 'This is my Body Today' — (or 'Telling my Brain to Fuck Off')

(Editor's Note — Frannie Bray is a writer based in West Virginia who does headstands in random place.) My biggest struggle this year has...

ESSAY: Carrying a Grandfather Clock Around Maryland

(Editor's Note — Joe Smith is a Maryland-based writer and bass God at the 'Anomic Order of Four String Transcendence,' which you can find...