Posts Tagged ‘punk rock’
Love Me, I’m A Liberal
Published in Red Mist, 12th August 2011 Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine live in London As we were watching Jello Biafra advocating “non-violent direct action” from the stage of the O2 Academy in Islington, only a couple of miles up the road members of Tottenham’s impoverished community made their frustration felt by […]
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Tags: Alternative Tentacles, dead kennedys, enhanced methods of questioning, hardcore, jello biafra, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, left liberalism, Punk, punk rock
Joyriding in the Docklands
published in Red Mist, 8th May 2011 The Bermondsey Joyriders and John Sinclair live at London’s 100 Club “Where are they now?”, asked a 1982 song by South-East London band Cock Sparrer, lamenting the faded and lapsed heroes of the British punk revolution. The answer was simple. Some of the addressees of the lyric, such […]
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Tags: Cock Sparrer, gentrification, John Sinclair, Marx, oi, Punk, punk rock, rock n roll, The Bermondsey Joyriders
7 reasons why I like The Clash
I like The Clash because… … the over-privileged Joe Strummer spent his whole life impersonating what he imagined an authentic working class person would be like: bad teeth, unintelligible speech, chain smoking.
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Tags: 77 punk, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, morning star, Punk, punk rock, rock, rock n roll, the clash
New York Dolls to play 100 Club
If the Rolling Stones built rock ‘n’ roll Babylon, then the New York Dolls turned it into a rock ‘n’ roll Sodom and Gomorrah. Formed in the early 70s in the post-Warhol-Factory milieu, they were the most happening and most decadent act on NYC’s trash glam circuit.
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Tags: 100 Club, glam punk, glam rock, new york dolls, ny punk, proto punk, Punk, punk rock, rock n roll
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
“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
THE DOGS D’AMOUR: the state we’re in (Kumibeat Records, 1984) An euphoric power pop riff, a chorus that could have been written by Slade in 1972 had Slade been a little less ham-fisted, and we’re diving head first into the what could have been the definitive glam punk statement of the 80s. Unfortunately, it was […]
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Tags: dogs d'amour, glam, glam punk, glam rock, hanoi rocks, johnny thunders, Punk, punk rock, rock and roll, sleaze rock, tyla
Shane MacGowan’s 70s punk band The Nipple Erectors will be playing a reunion set at London’s 100 Club this coming Tuesday 6 May, supported by cult ’77 punk rocker Johnny Moped and Seattle power pop band The Cute Lepers.
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Tags: alcohol addiction, garage punk, garage rock, johnny moped, london, Nipple Erectors, Punk, punk rock, Shane MacGowan, The Damned, the pogues
The Trashwomen reunite!
Budget rock pioneers The Trashwomen are reuniting to play a show at Mr T’s Bowl in Los Angeles on July 12th. It’s their second gig since their breakup in 1995 (they played one at last year’s Budget Rock Fest).
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Tags: bobbyteens, budget rock, garage punk, garage rock, psychobilly, Punk, punk rock, rockabilly, surf, trash, trashwomen
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
Zombie Met Girl
Zombie Met Girl sound as if the Dead Kennedys had remained in their embryonic, pre Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables state for a little while longer, and then fleshed out their sound by adding a slight Cramps touch instead of going hardcore. I’m not sure if you get the same impression from their video clip […]
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Tags: dead kennedys, garage punk, garage rock, hardcore punk, horror punk, jello biafra, Punk, punk rock, rock and roll, the cramps, zombie met girl
The Moon interview
Joe Moon sounds a lot like Iggy Pop. He even sings with a Midwestern accent. But his band are not your average garage troupe dishing out “1969″ soundalikes. Perhaps The Moon’s music is a speculation on what may have come of the Stooges after the phenomenal 1974 post-glam hangover album they never got to record […]
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Tags: alternative rock, garage punk, garage rock, iggy pop, proto punk, psychedelic rock, Punk, punk rock, stooges, the birthday party, underground
Sonny Vincent interview
Originally published in Zombie Creeping Flesh fanzine. Sonny Vincent has been a punk rocker since 1976. He spent his formative years fronting The Testors in New York City’s early CBGB milieu alongside bands like the Dead Boys and The Cramps. Projecting the image of an archetypical New York punk underdog with an attitude, he went […]
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Tags: dead boys, garage punk, garage rock, mc5, Music, new york punk, Punk, punk rock, rock and roll, sonny vincent, stooges
Yegor Letov RIP
Yegor Letov formed his first band Posev in 1983 in his Siberian hometown, Omsk. They played relatively simple, amateurish punk with occassional touches of reggae and ska.
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Tags: grazhdanksaya oborona, GrOb, Punk, punk rock, russia, Soviet punk, Soviet rock, Yanka, Yegor Letov
Billy Zoom interview
Would-be guitar heroes who play 289 notes per second are dime a dozen. Yet those guitarists who possess a truly awe-inspiring ability with their instrument are rare, with so much style that would never be displayed in a vulgar, shallow-minded way.
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Tags: billy zoom, hardcore, hardcore punk, la punk, los angeles punk, Punk, punk rock, west coast punk, x
Imagine all those New York loser-punk bands from the 70s shooting up generous doses of meth instead of smack. They may well have sounded like The Heart Attacks, the band from Atlanta whose album Hellbound and Heartless was released in late 2006.
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Tags: 77 punk, glam punk, hellbound and heartless, joan jett, ny punk, Punk, punk rock, sleaze rock, the heart attacks
