This man will explain punk to you While 1983 may feel pretty late to “break” punk as a cultural phenomenon, Los Angeles Fox affiliate KTTV put together their five part feature covering the recent onslaught of California Hardcore as a bold new movement, and understandably so. Like every generation of olds before them, the historical […]
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Post-punk art rock gods Wire, live in 1979
7th January 2013 – 14:06
I spent a fair amount of the holidays rediscovering the timeless genius of Wire’s late 70’s punk/post punk/art rock triptych of Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154 and I’d have to say, those three albums will never get old for me. This 1979 set for the German TV series RockPalast, taped between Chairs Missing and […]
DEPARTMENT S: THE BLACKPOOL AFFAIR, FRIDAY 6/8/2010
6th September 2010 – 17:23
DEPARTMENT S: THE BLACKPOOL AFFAIR, FRIDAY 6/8/2010 And so, once again the tribes gather for their annual stick of Blackpool Punk Rock at the essential Rebellion Festival. But this year, amongst the rockers, skankers, moshers and voyeurs, something altogether different: Department S. (Queue massed cries of ‘Is Vic There?’ from hordes of those barely familiar […]