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Julio Rey is A middle-aged, Christian, American, Cuban-born, Libertarian singer/songwriter who played punk and thrash in the 1980s in the Lead and hardcore and grindcore in the 1990s with Frank’s Enemy.
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Lyric: Religion No Rite (In Your Face Again)(0)
Lyric: Barry Goldwater Blues(0)
The Lead – What I Should Have Told Tim Yohannon In 1985 (Julio Rey demo 2011) – download at Area 1234(0)
Frank’s Enemy – @anonymous (download at area1234)(1)
Lyric: Joe’s still dead and London’s still burning(0)
Lyric: Anonymous(1)
Remember this one…(0)
On Olivier, Bandcamp and Tunecore(0)
Lyric: True Love(0)
Area 1234 going members-only(0)
Lyric: Rage(0)
Lyric: Sick Eyes Blue(0)
Lyric: Orem Ain’t Got No Head Cheese(0)
Three Julio Rey EPs for download at Area 1234(0)
Boise Bob and His Backyard Band!(0)
Julio Rey – Old Glory (download at Area1234)(0)
Lyric: Old Glory(0)
Lyric: Endtime(0)
Julio Rey – Cedric EP (download at area1234)(0)
Lyric: God Used A Woman(0)
Lyric: Look Up My Face(0)
Lyric: Song To The Sixties(0)
Lyric: Not Noble The Struggle(0)
Nina Rehearsal(0)
Why don’t you phone up Robin Hood and ask him for some wealth distribution?(1)
Julio Rey – so low acoustic Open Mix (download at area1234)(0)
Frank’s Enemy – Unity Is Overrated (download at area1234)(1)
Julio Rey – Unrehearsed Walk EP (vinyl rip download at area1234)(0)
New Nina EP at iTunes(0)
Orlando Zapata Tamayo(2)
It’s my Par-Tea (and I’ll bitch, moan, and complain if I want to)(0)
News flash: Cuban punk icon gets stabbed to death, authorities aren’t saying shit(0)
Frank Frazetta(0)
Las Ovejas Electricas (download at Area1234)(0)
Jack Brisco(0)
Looks like I wrote a new lyric yesterday(0)
Rock Me, Dr. Zaius.(0)
DOWNLOAD at Area1234: Enraged by Frank’s Enemy(0)
DOWNLOAD at Area1234: Julio Rey – Astrid(0)
Store’s Open! C’mon In!(0)
New Not Silent Store’s Open — C’mon In!(0)
I’m streaming my Loogie Soup Christmas song at Not Silent(0)
STREAM: Have a Loogie Loogie Christmas(1)
El himno blogeador(0)
What is a coup?(0)
What is a revolution?(0)
What is a freedom fighter?(0)
Targets and Planet 51(0)
What is a terrorist?(0)
DOWNLOAD at area1234: King James and the Concordances – The Authorized Version(0)
Julio Rey – No Religion (Lead oldie live)(1)
Julio Rey – Glass Of Water (live, Coldplay cover)(0)
Protest songs and hunger strikes only work vs. Western democracies(0)
Madden 10 iPhone App: where football dreams come true(0)
The Truth Is Only Known By Guttersnipes(0)
Julio Rey – 42 (Coldplay cover)(1)
Julio Rey – My Favorite Football Team (live)(2)
Julio Rey – Michael Iceberg (live)(0)
Julio Rey – Revolution In The Heart (Lead oldie)(0)
Julio Rey – True Love(1)
Open mike mini tour in Orlando next week(0)
Julio Rey – No Religion (live – Lead oldie – Return Fire version)(0)
Julio Rey – Glass Of Water (live – Coldplay cover)(0)
Julio Rey – It’s Thru You/Better Off (live – Lead covers – YouTube vid)(0)
Julio Rey – Bottom Line / The Soldier (Live – Loogie Soup & Visitors “covers”)(0)
Julio Rey: The Hardest Part (live, Coldplay cover – YouTube vid)(0)
Julio Rey – Kill Satan/Get Out Of My Face (Lead oldies, YouTube vid)(0)
Julio Rey – Great (YouTube vid)(2)
Julio Rey – It’s Thru You/Better Off (live – Lead covers)(0)
Minutemen- Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing(0)
Julio Rey – Bottom Line / The Soldier (Live – Loogie Soup & Visitors "covers")(0)
Julio Rey: The Hardest Part (live, Coldplay cover)(0)
Julio Rey – Kill Satan/Get Out Of My Face (Lead oldies)(1)
Proof that there was a punk rock in the 1930s(0)
Julio Rey – Question What Authority/One Step Ahead (Lead oldie) (YouTube vid)(0)
Porno Para Ricardo launching new CD in Havana tomorrow night(1)
Julio Rey – I’ll Never Know (Visitors oldie) (YouTube video)(0)
Ciro and Claudio let go by Cuban state security(0)
Ciro of Porno Para Ricardo and La Babosa Azul Arrested in Cuba(0)
Julio Rey – Spring Breaks (YouTube vid)(0)
I’m back and peddling more Porno (download Gorki’s Tune EP at area1234)(0)
Gorki’s Tune EP (free download at area1234)(0)
Julio Rey: As Long As You’re Not Real/Your Messiah (YouTube vid)(0)
Julio Rey: I Don’t Know About Bob Dylan (YouTube vid)(0)
Julio Rey: Nothing (YouTube Vid)(0)
No open mic at Music Depot this Saturday, again.(0)
No open mic at Music Depot this Saturday(2)
LBpunk4Xmas – new Loogie Soup track at Area1234(0)
Download two new Frank’s Enemy tracks at Area1234(2)
SUBMARINE: new Frank’s Enemy track in Area1234(0)
New Frank’s Enemy track in Area1234(0)
Notes on the Open Mic at Music Depot last Saturday(0)
‘Tis the Season(0)
‘Tis the Season(0)
Frustrating(1)
Recording update: four tracks under three names(0)
Recording update: four tracks under three names(1)
Notes on last night’s open mic at Music Depot(0)
Notes on last night’s open mic at Music Depot(0)
Psychotic Philosophy reviews the three Frank’s Enemy CDs(1)
Psychotic Philosophy reviews the three Frank’s Enemy CDs(0)
Recording (and asshole) update(0)
My "Going Underground" interview to air this Friday(0)
“Complaints! Complaints!/Wotta old bag!”(0)
PPR: El Policia De la Cultura (the Cuban “Mexican Standoff” continues)(0)
Recording new Frank’s Enemy tune: Submarine(4)
Recording new Frank’s Enemy tune: Submarine(0)
Open mic at Music Depot last Saturday(0)
Open mic at Music Depot last Saturday(0)
I get interviewed by a cool guy from Holland(1)
Porno Para Ricardo in Rolling Stone in espani!(1)
A few Lead fliers in the galleries(0)
Lead fliers at Not Silent(0)
La Babosa Azul website officially up and running(1)
A vid from Maywoods: Futile The Fight(0)
Stuck on a blue snail(1)
The way we was…(0)
Metallica rips off Petra?(0)
The new Not Silent: It’s a launch!(1)
Fallout from Gorki’s plight, tears from the weather(0)
A couple of things 9/11(0)
New alliance with KeysDAN(0)
New alliance with KeysDAN(0)
September 6: Open Mic at Music Depot(1)
September 6: Open Mic at Music Depot(4)
I’ll be at the Open Mic at Music Depot this Saturday(0)
Raul Castro, rock and roll publicist(0)
Post trial wrap-up(3)
A thousand words(0)
Gorki out with a $600 fine(0)
Last bits from Havana(0)
Just as I feared….the goons have arrived(0)
Pro-Gorki pre-trial show(down) at the Malecon tomorrow night(1)
ENOUGH! Gorki Aguila arrested (again), faces up to 4 years(4)
Frank’s Enemy: Link Line vid at Alex A’s MySpace(0)
Gearing up for new Frank’s Enemy recordings(0)
El que mas mea(4)
Straight Outta Cuba (via Poland) — La Babosa Azul(4)
DOWNLOAD: The Lead – Wink Of An Eye 10-second EP(0)
GUEST DOWNLOAD at area1234: La Babosa Azul – Cuando amanezca el día(0)
DOWNLOAD: The Lead – Wink Of An Eye(1)
DOWNLOAD: The Lead – The Past Behind (original tape mix)(0)
DOWNLOAD: The Lead – The Past Behind – original cassette mix(0)
Che’s face is finally where it belongs….(0)
Tellechea on Elian and Obama(0)
Dig my new invention(0)
No Tone (new Frank’s Enemy lyric)(0)
To listen to this woman kicking major butt on voice and bass….(0)
What does this picture mean to you?(0)
Einstein In The Act – another new Frank’s Enemy (maybe) lyric(0)
There’s No Stopping A Determined Asshole (new Frank’s Enemy lyric)(2)
Bo Diddley (1928-2008)(1)
New Frank’s Enemy lyric posted at Not Silent(0)
Vote, Work, and Roll (new Frank’s Enemy lyric)(3)
Never Mind The Salsa…Here’s Real Cuban Music(1)
In the beginning…(2)
Not Silent is finally really under construction(0)
The Punk Rock Collage Art of Louis Armstrong(0)
The shifting paradigm of exiled Cubans(0)
The mother of all political posts(0)
Found songs on terrestrial radio(0)
My pastor can beat up your pastor(0)
The WWW is alive and well and being smuggled into Cuba(0)
No good reason to end the Cuban embargo(0)
Larry And Me(3)
Larry Norman (1947-2008)(2)
Ramones on Sha Na Na, 1980(1)
23 (Gorki’s Tune gets a title)(1)
The Lead on YouTube(4)
Say hello….(2)
A little more Porno before getting back to business(1)
THIS Revolution will be posted on YouTube…(1)
2008, the year in review before it happens(3)
Last thoughts on the CD and one more vid: Hope You Never Change Your Mind(1)
Understand The Words CD physical release, free DOWNLOAD of first single(0)
YouTube vid: Love Is Pain(0)
notsilent.net is coming back(0)
YouTube vid: Nail Me In(1)
A vid on YouTube at last(0)
My Rotten Reasoned Religion, Chapter 1(2)
Listen to three new Porno Para Ricardo songs at Cuba Underground(1)
New Blog On the Roll(0)
Stream my new CD in its entirety (physical release and downloads are coming)(1)
Mi Balsa(1)
Wild In The Streets, part 2(2)
Wild in the streets(1)
Libertarianism and the Cuban Embargo(2)
Old microsite pics are back up in ImageShack(0)
Belated thanks to Manuel Tellechea (UPDATED)(2)
New blog on the roll(2)
New widget on the blog(0)
Great work (and other recording notes)(2)
Dale Rogers and Roy Evans (recording update)(3)
Microsites and area1234 are down(2)
Gorki’s Tune EP is up(2)
On Cubas’ case versus Cuba’s puppet(0)
WhoTube(0)
Props to Peter the DSL guy from AT&T(0)
Some more-ki Gorki(1)
GORKI’S TUNE EP launched at MySpace tonight(5)
Gorki’s Tune still under construction (sorry)(1)
I’m Yelpin’!(2)
Of Bruce Cockburn and Cuban mercenaries (and the lyrics to Gorki’s Tune)(5)
Ding Dong? (plus a RECORDING NOTE featuring Gorki’s Tune)(10)
RECORDING UPDATE: last song for the CD is one for the Old Country (as rumors of the Wicked Witch’s death boil up once more)(6)
On Gorki, AT&T, my CD and my vid(2)
CHURCH SONG — Nail Me In (and the cameras were rolling…tape at eleven, on some evening in the near future)(0)
YouTube, here I come (maybe)(0)
DSL rant again(0)
RECORDING NOTES — cause that’s pretty much all I can do these days on a computer (except for freelance, of course)(0)
RECORDING NOTES — the final stretch to the CD (as CDs become obsolete)(0)
Microsites will be taken down this week(0)
David of Sketchism in Blogathon 2007 (I should have posted this before it actually happened, though)(2)
Spicks and Specks(0)
RANT — Gorki Aguila gets accused of inciting violence with his lyrics(1)
…with a banjo on my head (RECORDING NOTES)(0)
Worthlesslink(0)
On Earthlink, my CD, Che, and Mickey(2)
More random doggerel(1)
I’d better get started on that blogroll…(2)
Recording notes (no DSL has its advantages, I guess)(4)
LIVE DEBUT– Old Man Blues at church(2)
DOWNLOAD 3 songs from my 05 solo CD Corinne (and stream the other 15 songs)(0)
I just finished a new song(0)
Big doings in the blog backend (maybe)(2)
Somebody drew my wife(0)
Frat Rock in the Gulag (Porno Para Ricardo redux)(1)
DOWNLOAD Frank’s Enemy — three more songs from the 90s — on last.fm(1)
DOWNLOAD: "Movies About Jesus" by King James and the Concordances at last.fm(0)
DOWNLOAD Six Frank’s Enemy songs from the 1990s at last.fm(0)
DOWNLOAD Las Ovejas Electricas first EP from last.fm(0)
Am I really this senile? At 47?(2)
DOWNLOADABLE ART IS UP: Four Songs With Alex A(0)
DOWNLOAD NEW EP: Julio Rey: Four Songs With Alex A at MySpace(?) and last.fm(0)
DOWNLOAD: Julio Rey: Understand This Sampler Two EP at last.fm(0)
Gorki freed(0)
Gorki Aguila arrested, again(0)
DOWNLOAD Julio Rey: Unrehearsed Walk EP (25th anniversary rerelease at last.fm)(1)
DOWNLOAD, PT 2: The first shall be last.fm(0)
DOWNLOAD Frank’s Enemy: Enraged (fifth anniversary EP rerelease)(2)
It’s a music blog now(0)
Gorki in the Herald(0)
Another blogger jailed(0)
Lead Review Roundup(0)
Porno On CNN(0)
New from Berlitz: Learn Cuban Obscenities in Spanish in Five Easy Hours! (Porno Para Ricardo review part 2)(0)
Bay of Pigs(0)
I tip my hat to the new revolution (Porno Para Ricardo review part 1)(1)
More Porno(0)
Recording update (sigh….)(0)
Coming along(0)
Pardon my dust (and lame layout)(0)
TRUE Punk Rock in Cuba!(2)
Read The Bills, can you Digg it?(0)
My Kunaki is a gone-aki(1)
75 Kareems in Cuba (four years and counting)(0)
Schoolhouse Screamo?(0)
Schoolhouse Rock(0)
Kareem’s Last Blog(0)
Elect your local atheist!(2)
Latest scorecard (or, I told you I needed one)(2)
Fata Morgana at church, again (or, I wasn’t kidding when I said off-key in my last post’s title)(0)
A whirlwind off off-key vocally warbling tracks (or, I think I need a scorecard to know what the heck I’m doing)(0)
I almost converted to Buddhism (or, I almost got sunk by a B-movie director in disguise)(0)
Started overdubbing on another song! (or…let me get technical on you because I feel like it)(0)
Random doggerel (or, more songs about prostates and man boobs)(0)
Free Kareem! (or, the dawn of politics)(0)
Been to my MySpace lately? (or, please wash up after your comments)(0)
The Libertines (or, I finally downloaded a whole album from iTunes) (or, I have nothing important to say)(0)
Fata Morgana (or, hey, I’m playing church songs again!)(0)
9 down and 7 to go (or, my latest recording update…)(0)
I hate bald ex-NBA point guards (or, the Bride shooting fish in a barrel)(0)
Of Of Montreal (and some other groups I had never heard of) (or…catching up, part three)(0)
Greatest hits of the 80s! Featuring RKL, Raw Power, and Articles of Faith! (or, Catching Up, Part 2)(2)
Blog? I have a blog? (or…catching up, part one…)(0)
The Lead are on another comp from Retroactive(0)
King James and The Concordances!(0)
A wik attempt at posterity(4)
Wink Of An i(0)
Wild October(1)
HARDCORE FOR JESUS has been released!(1)
Alex A was here!(0)
(0)
Nina’s MySpace spruced up(0)
The Lead’s "Calling Out" to hm(0)
Andy Coyle sighting!(0)
Lightning Strikes Twice Again For The Lead(0)
Progress on my CD(0)
I’m back from Disney World!(0)
I’m going to Disney World!(0)
The Lead on a new compilation from Retroactive(0)
Little Lead Update (and plug, of course)(0)
Nina release party: the photos(0)
Some of all that freelance(0)
BREAKING NEWS! Virtual EP available for download at MySpace!(0)
The only thing better than watching old B horror and science fiction movies…(0)
Sweet Lead News(0)
On the Nina Llopis release party and concert last Friday(0)
Main Street Memories(0)
The Last Open Mic at Main Street (sob), where a fool and his harp are reunited (sorry, Cedric)(0)
April 22, 2006: Homestead Rockfest(0)
April 20, 2006: Open Mic at Main Street Cafe (RIP)(0)
Hardcore For Jesus Limited Edition Available for Preorder(0)
Alex A In The House(0)
Hurricane Freelance(0)
The Ides of April: Chocolate Moose Music Cafe(0)
I’ll be at Marc Golob’s Homestead Rockfest on Saturday April 22(0)
Five weeks of church songs!(0)
February 25: Open Mic at Luna Star Cafe(0)
Open mic week is cancelled(0)
The Lead story of the year(1)
Open Mic Week, March 25 -April 1(0)
Strolling in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood(2)
February 22: Open Mic at Main Street Cafe(0)
February 17 and 24: Acoustic Jam at MusicTech(0)
The last waltz (for now)(0)
I don’t usually post my opinions here, but….(2)
Church, February 19: Spiritual(0)
Saturday, February 18: Chocolate Moose Music Cafe(0)
Wednesday, February 15, Open Mic at Main Street Cafe(0)
Last weekend at the open mics, part three(0)
Last weekend at the open mics, part two(0)
Last weekend at the open mics, part one(0)
So how’d it go last night, Julio?(0)
One more date on the mini tour(0)
Recording update(0)
Ballad of a Thin-Picked Man On The Mountain with Harmonica(0)
Gearing Up(0)
Thank You For My Money comes full circle(0)
Open Mic Mini Tour(0)
The Past Too Much(0)
Thank You For My Money (recording update)(0)
New Sampler Coming Up(0)
Facing Up To It (again) (or…a new performing phase)(0)
OPM: The Little Black Egg(1)
OPM: Roll Over Beethoven(0)
The Lead is on myspace.com(0)
This is freaky(1)
Lead press clips are going up(0)
OPM: Romulus(0)
Office Party Shenanigans(0)
Some last thoughts on Corinne (the CD)(1)
OPM (other people’s music): At The Zoo(0)
Corinne is here(0)
Corinne preview at myspace(0)
Happiness(0)
Corinne is on the way!(0)
Roll The Rock(0)
Ku-Na-Ki(0)
Veteran’s Day recording session(0)
Mr. Castro Goes To Harlem(0)
From the backyard to the living room(0)
New look on the website(0)
Gates of Heaven(0)
The backyard demos(0)
El Juego(0)
Frank’s Enemy at Ebay is Over(0)
The Lead covered by Adorned Graves(0)
Double Life(0)
Oh, yeah…(0)
(0)
Thank You For My Money(0)
The Lead CD Takes a Big Step Forward(0)
Jacuzzi Days(0)
What happened?(0)
(0)
Frank’s Friend rides again!(0)
Church song: Facing Up to It(0)
SPIRITUAL (performed at church Sunday 9.11.05)(0)
UPDATED: Church song from three days ago: The Day The Music Lied(0)
UPDATED: Today’s Church Song: Man On The Mountain(0)
One year later…(0)
Three weeks later…(1)
Dennis makes it a no-go(0)
Slow night (me, not the place)(0)
Saturday Night Lunacy(0)
Drum Loop Mania(0)
Let there be percussion!(0)
Luna Star Struck Last Saturday (April 9)(0)
A WHOLE NEW CLOG(0)

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