Archive for August, 2008
Punk rock in Bulgaria 1979-2008
Punk rock didn’t have it easy in socialist Bulgaria, a country in which all aggressive rock music was officially banned. That didn’t keep Novi Cvetya (“New Flowers”) from performing punk rock as early as 1979.
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Tags: bulgaria, eastern bloc, hardcore punk, music history, Punk, punk rock, punks, subculture, the balkans
There’s something strangely fascinating about radical skinhead music. We’re not talking Oi! music or ‘street punk’, that politically unadventurous football hooligan variant of punk rock that cropped up in the UK around 1980. We’re talking angry young men who have dedicated their music and their lives to a cause and are not adverse to using […]
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Tags: anarchist, anti-fascism, hardcore punk, non-servium, oi, Punk, red and anarchist skinheads, skinheads, street punk
“The right band at the wrong time” is how young Boston punks Red Invasion refer to themselves. With their straightforward Dead Boys-meet-Heartbreakers 70s sleaze punk they might not be in the process of reinventing the wheel, but their songs are infused with a passion rarely found in music these days. Underneath their aggressively nihilistic surface, […]
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Tags: dead boys, garage punk, garage rock, glam punk, johnny thunders, new york punk, Punk, punk rock, red invasion
