Posts Tagged ‘music history’
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
Chances that the Oblivians, Gories, and White Stripes ever heard of Yugoslavia’s godfathers of garage punk, Partibrejkers, are next to zero. And yet, upon hearing the bass-less, cutting, rhythm & blues based garage rock the Partibrejkers (speak: party breakers) thrashed out on their deliberately lo-fi 1985 debut album, one is inclined to think these Belgradians […]
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Tags: garage punk, garage rock, gories, music history, new york dolls, partibrejkers, Punk, punk rock, serbia, stooges, yugoslavia
Lydia Lunch interview
Originally published in Zombie Creeping Flesh fanzine. When she was only 14, Lydia Lunch ran away from her suburban Rochester home to hang out in the early New York City punk scene. Amateur footage filmed at the CBGB club in 1976 reveals her as an early Dead Boys groupie as well as a keen self-promoter […]
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Tags: cinema of transgression, lydia lunch, Music, music history, No Wave, post punk, Punk, richard kern, teenage jesus and the jerks
