#Stza

[brandoooom]

Leftöver Crack rehearsing in LA before tour this week.

The current lineup is:

Scott Sturgeon / Stza: vocals and keys

Tibbie Skye West: vocals

Talon Demeo: guitar

Skunk Chellovek: guitar

Marc Cody: bass

Aaron Garcia: drums

Photographs by Brandon Tauszik

[drugstorecowboi]

Choking Victim: “Fuck America” No Gods / No Managers (1999)

[atrickrtreat]

@divinetenebris "I've been looking for you everywhere. I thought you were dead." to October from Stza

"I texted you, told you that I would be unavailable for a few days," October said, thankfully the bruising on her face had died down now and was easily covered with makeup. Damn spirit getting the best of her and her team. "Dead though? Isn't that a bit dramatic, Stza? I didn't think you cared that much. As you can see, I'm fine."

[divinetenebris]

"❛ y----you k---know you can a---always talk to me. ❜ stza"

shit. he didn't mean to put this on @ofmcck. that wasn't fair to her. it was hard to keep it in after a certain point, though. dark eyes blinked once. twice. silence to fall until stza could think of a proper response. after two more beats- "no. i know. i appreciate it. i don't mean to, you know, cut you off from my brain with this. just in my own head about it."

[caninegoodnight]

taur fucking hipsters

[antifafem]

bands to listen to other than Leftöver Crack and Choking Victim

Morning Glory

F-Minus

Public Serpents

No Cash

INDK

Against All Authority

The Infested

literally any band where the lead singer isn’t a domestic abuser.

i continually see patches of those two bands and it always makes me mad. STZA mentally & physically abused Whitney Flynn of Days N Daze. and she isn’t even close to the only woman did that to. don’t claim to be a punk if you’re going to support people like him.

[onedesertrat]

I wish that someone had introduced me to d-beat when I was a teen instead of Leftover Crack. lmfao I'm embarrassed as to how much I idolized that band and other bands Stza was apart of.

[thyofthee]

Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols is a Nazi

Sid Viscous is of Sex Pistols is a Nazi and Murderer

HR of Bad Brains is a homo/transphobe and a racist

Stza Crack of Leftöver Crack and Choking Victim is a rapist and a pedophile

Jorge Herrera of The Casualties is a rapist and a pedophile

Justin Sane of Anti Flag is a rapist

Omar Higgins of Negro Terror is a Nazi

Every member of Screwdriver is a Nazi

Every member of Rock Against Communism is a Nazi

Lynx Gaede of Prussian Blue is a Nazi

Lamb Gaede of Prussian Blue is a Nazi

Jesse Lacey of Brand New is a rapist and a pedophile

Joel Faviere Screwdriver is a rapist and a pedophile

Yes actually

[daily-folkpunk]

DAY 82: AUDREY PLATH - FUCK STZA

[crackdaddycaine]

About the Leftöver Crack song “Shooticide” & its inspiration by Stza Crack

When I was 12, my step-father killed himself & the news was broken to me by an NYPD officer that was just inside of the apartment door when I got home from school. I was shocked, saddened & surprised. It felt like an ambush & they had no business being in our home. It was not a crime scene & was it the officers place to tell me this news when my mom was already there?

Growing up a block from Bellevue hospital, I saw police corruption, brutality & the victims of their violence up close all of the time & although I was “taught” that the police were there only to help us, as I grew, I soon learned to only loathe & fear them.

In 2014, with the public's access to video camera's on their smart-phones & with the advent & simplification of social media posting, holding police accountable for murdering people seemed to almost become a reality when news coverage momentarily shifted from the police departments “official” stories to the documented stories of civilian eye-witnesses. The evident & widespread abuse of police power & their flagrant lack of respect for human life started to trend until it was part of mainstream media & and unavoidable national conversation.

Then, all of a sudden, the "fad" waned, the media moved on to something else & nothing changed at all. Mandatory body cameras were either not worn or routinely shut off &/or "broken" at critical moments during confrontations with often unarmed black individuals many of whom were not even suspects in any crime.

With the botched “no-knock” raid that left Breonna Taylor murdered that March in Kentucky to the surfacing of footage of Sandra Bland’s arrest in Texas years earlier that led most people to the conclusion that she was murdered by the same police that had her detained illegally in a jail cell, by the time that George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, the people witnessing his mistreatment knew what to do & their film proved what most of us already knew, that the police were cruel & sadistic, but, as filming police violations became the norm & police started going on public trials for murder, the disturbing trend became more & more evident: the police were not only poorly trained & often racially motivated, but, time & time again, they explained that they were "scared". Now, this could seem like a "strategy" to get a police officer out of a murder charge, but, in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting & in light of the evacuations of their own precincts during national anti-police protests in major cities like Minneapolis & Seattle, even leaving behind guns, ammo & prisoners without food or water, a veritable checklist of state-irresponsibility, it became painfully obvious that police were very rarely "heroic" & almost always cowards.

Shooticide is about how the police in America have undermined their own authority by "outing" themselves as terrified of just about everything & that the farce of the slogan "to protect & serve" only applies to themselves & that 9 times out of 10, when they have their guns drawn, they are all pissing themselves in panic & afraid of their own shadows. Emptying their clips & their bladders simultaneously.

That's why "Defunding" the police is such an ill conceived idea (besides the fact that one vowel changed turns that slogan into “Defend the Police”, coincidence? Nobody’s that stupid, not even the cops), when these officers are so badly trained, less money means even less training. We believe that fundamentally, in its wide-spread corruption & systemic racism, policing needs to be abolished & people need to figure out a way to elect folks from their own communities to actually keep "the peace" instead of sowing chaos & fear through corruption & violence. The war on drugs needs to be suspended & condemned. And the judicial system needs to be reimagined & not as the even less equitable, zero tolerance of the cancel culture that is an essentially fascist style of moral policing that relies entirely on one person’s own testimony while ignoring any & all forensic evidence & the testimony of the only other witness present. Corruption & injustice collide with social media & the back lash of moral outrage & misinformation that used to set the dissenting & bigoted right apart from logical thinkers, but is now reserved for leftist activists in a political ruse to destroy us & our goals.

These are the themes in the song lyrics of “Shooticide”.

[crowgvts]

stza of leftover crack is a wife beater

wait fucking WHAT

ig that's two patches going in the bin I didn't know that shit jfc

[svetzzi]

okay now I know what happened with stza. y’all could’ve said somethin you know.

[crusty-princess]

I can tolerate all of them except Stza fans

[divinetenebris]

@sosagely said: 'i almost DIED back there , and you’re laughing ? (salem)'

"oh, woe is me. someone is dead, what a shame," salem rolled her eyes, finding distinct irony in her statement and the situation. "relax yourself and let me patch you up more, kay?" the ghost pressed the padding a little harder with one hand while the other grabbed a bandage from the little kit that stza insisted on having in the house. goody-two shoes. "sad news too- no happy days band-aids though, okay? we only have the white ones here."

[punkshitposts]

so like. why is Stza in Reagan Youth now

[onedesertrat]

was looking through old Playlist I had earlier and came across bands I used to fuck heavy with. Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, No Cash, Morning Glory, INDK... it's been quite some time since I've listened to either bands entirely. they're more stored in my memory banks alongside baby punk bands like black flag, minor threat, and bad brains for me now. I was a die-hard for ska punk in high school, then I slowly dipped into Crust Punk, and for the past decade, I haven't looked back much, hahaha. out of all of the band members from the East Coast scene that i have met, I will say Ezra was the friendliest, Stza however wasn't really. in fact, the dude seemed nearly bothered when asked for a photo, but it is what it is. sometimes, it's a gamble to meet your "heroes."