Archive for the ‘Punk’ Category
Pre-Punks in Black & White
Posted by s woods on August 10, 2011
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Punk’s Prophet
Posted by s woods on July 28, 2011
Tim Marchman revisits Marcus’s Ranters and Crowd Pleasers.
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Early Coley
Posted by s woods on June 28, 2011
A review of Byron Coley’s C’est la guerre: Early Writings: 1978-1983 (published by L’Oie de Cravan, in both English and French), at Blurt Online.
And to further mark the occasion, an interesting interview with Coley at Vice magazine.
Q: So back when this stuff was being written, did you think you’d still be writing about music 30 years later?
A: I remember talking to Richard Meltzer back then and he was telling me ‘You got to give this up! If you want to be taken seriously as a writer, you have to stop this. You can’t keep writing about rock music after 30.’ But I always had this thing for it. I would watch people like Richard or Lester Bangs or Nick Tosches sort of from the sidelines when I lived in New York and it just looked like they were having a lot of fun. They weren’t doing anything really productive, but I would just look at them and think ‘What a way to die!’
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Reading Books About Hüsker Dü
Posted by s woods on June 25, 2011
Hüsker Dü’s Propulsive Liberation (Reviews of two new Dü books by Christgaü — including one co-written by Mould and Michael Azerrad — in the New York Times)
“Three decades later I still feel lucky to have experienced that transmutation of wrath into flight. Not only did Hüsker Dü generate an impressive recorded legacy during their eight years on earth, they were ferocious live — as memorable onstage as Nirvana or the Rolling Stones. They deserve one great book, not these two mediocre ones.”
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