We Are the Backup
A sarcastic Gen X survival anthem about the generation that nobody came to save, so they became the backup.
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Artists and releases across JDWS Music associated with the punk rock genre.
6 Music entries
JDWS Mix
5 songs across 1 JDWS artist
A sarcastic Gen X survival anthem about the generation that nobody came to save, so they became the backup.
A fast Zed Wishless cowpunk memory about two Kawasaki-shop boneheads heading to a Palo Alto club show in the summer of 1989.
I wrote Broken Man, Iron Will around Friedrich Nietzsche, resilience, and the question of what we do with suffering after we survive it.
A Zed Wishless rock song about an ancient human pattern that keeps returning in new forms: reaching beyond limits, acquiring new knowledge, changing what is possible, and dealing with what follows.
A loud, dust-covered Gen X memory of growing up around San Diego, where skateboards, dirt bikes, Baja Bugs, beach bonfires, road trips, empty houses, and very little supervision made freedom feel almost limitless.
Zed Wishless is a fictional JDWS artist built for sarcastic, punk-adjacent songs about Gen X survival, busted systems, old stories, bad decisions, dry humor, and the kind of resilience that does not ask for applause.