Welcome to BlankTV.

BlankTV is the end result of years of marginalized and/or exploitative
treatment of Punk Rock culture, art, music, videos and independent
music in general. BlankTV is an uncensored site, offering you the truth as
we see it. We hope to give you a real alternative to the corporate
propaganda that pervades our society. BlankTV is created by the culture it
defends. So if you don't like it, feel free to help change it.

Most of the music videos and live clips in our vast library are nearly
impossible to find elsewhere. If you do manage to find the videos
online, the quality is usually so poor you can't enjoy them as they were
meant to be seen. So, after fucking around for several years at some
doomed dot-coms in Hollywood, we knew we had the opportunity to try
something new.

For the past six and a half years, we've wasted most of our energy and
money on the BlankTV project. So far it has proved to be an utter waste
of time and resources. Friendships have been strained, noses bloodied
and bowling scores have plummeted. Still, we keep on trying.

On BlankTV you will see the newest, the best, the weirdest, the
classics and more. If your band has a video, send it in! If you have contacts
to get us more content, let us know! If you're sitting on old footage,
give it to us, ya bastard!

BlankTV will, hopefully, represent the best of what punk, ska,
hardcore, oi and indie music was, is and can be. Our emphasis is on bands that
need the exposure and have the talent. You will, however, find some
videos here that you may see in rotation on the M-pire. What can we say?
Corporate outlets found out that pre-packaged punk rebellion is a lot
easier to sell than metal. I can't really fault the bands for this. It's
just how things worked out.

Maybe someone will drop in to see some mallpunk, teenymosher noise or
the latest shoegazer band and leave thinking Refused, Bad Reaction or
Black Flag is something that has more to say to them. Maybe not. We'll
try to weed out the real crap.

While we're on the subject of corporate influences, you should all
understand that our policy is to take other people's money and do fun
things with it. What these companies are willing to pay such huge sums to
radio stations and corporate rock channels like the M-pire for, is you.
You are the product, the new hard-to-reach demographic. Understanding
that you're being sacrificed on the altar of consumerism should lessen
the blow. We're not total whores, but we like to keep our options open.
Plus, we've heard good things about 'laughing all the way to the bank'
and want to give that a shot too.

Our sincere hope is that BlankTV will be successful enough to allow us
to field another team for the punk DIY Bowling Weekend in Vegas next
year. So tell your friends to keep watching videos on BlankTV.

And please check out our links for friends and solid folks we've run
into. Our scene is kind of a micro-economy and you should consider that
when you do your punk rock shopping.

That's all for now,
Eddie Sunset

PS- While I've got your attention, it seems some aspects of the punk
oral tradition have lapsed in recent years. Most noticeably, people have
forgotten how unbelievably lame it is to wear the t-shirt of the band
you're seeing to the show. We get it. You like them. Don't be a tool.