Dag Nasty's Dave Smalley, American Hardcore's Steven Blush, and J.T. LeRoy (?!) Will Be At the Strand Together Next Week

​Because why the hell not, we guess. You've got to give it to Steven Blush--between giving away 911 songs that didn't exactly belong to him and pulling both the legendary Dag Nasty frontman Dave Smalley and "Avenue A-skinhead-turning-notorious-author Laura Albert," a/k/a the infamous J.T. LeRoy, for a panel discussion next Wednesday at the Strand, his promotional campaign for the expanded reissue of American Hardcore: A Tribal History has hit heights usually not attained by humble music historians. Or really anybody. They even made a convincingly faux-hardcore flyer for the panel next week:

​Lest you scoff at the incongruous J.T. LeRoy inclusion, recall he/she edited Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005 and has had run-ins in the past with everyone from Billy Corgan to Courtney Love. And Smalley of course sings on one (many, actually) of the greatest songs hardcore ever spawned:

Cameo potential in the crowd at this thing is gonna be unreal.

American Hardcore: A Tribal History, December 15 [The Strand]