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Friends With Boys: graphic novel about fitting in at high school, seeing ghosts
Faith Erin Hicks's new graphic novel Friends With Boys launches today. It's the story of Maggie, who is about to follow her three older brothers to the town high-school after a lifetime of...
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OFF! - "King Kong Brigade" (MP3 download)
Sound it Out # 23: OFF! - "King Kong Brigade" OFF! is a band full of Southern California punk rock royalty: Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Steven McDonald...
View ArticlePerhaps Contraption, an art-punk marching band
On Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of watching Perhaps Contraption ("a twisted brass, art punk marching band") at Saturday night's White Mischief steampunk night in London. They've got a...
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Remembering Adam Yauch: Polly Wog Stew
Earlier this morning, Pesco posted the awful news that Adam "MCA" Yauch died this morning at age 47. Words here can't express how sad I am, reading that news. Hits home in part because I'm fighting...
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Jonathan Lethem discusses his tribute to Talking Heads' Fear of Music
Jonathan Lethem's latest is a book in the 33 1/3 series, Talking Heads' Fear of Music, a tribute to Talking Heads brilliant, seminal album, one of the greatest records of all time. In Wired, Geeta...
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Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys, by photographer Glen E. Friedman: "why...
Photographer Glen E. Friedman, widely known for his work chronicling the intersection between punk rock and hiphop in the 1980s, has posted some beautiful shots of MCA, Ad-Rock, and Mike D from that...
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Huge, dumb booze producer Diageo orders industry association to give them the...
BrewDog is a spunky craft brewer in Scotland. Diageo is a titanic owner of booze brands, a kind of Wal*Mart of booze. The British Institute of Innkeeping is their mutual trade association. Last...
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“Freeware” compilation of LA Post-Punk and Indie-Wave music, 1977-1987
My friend Sean Bonner just pointed me to a wonderful music history project, put together by Brian Stefans: at lapostpunk.blogspot.com, an MP3 compilation of post-punk and experimental pop music in the...
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Richard Kadrey and John Shirley at SF in SF this Saturday
The next SF in SF reading series on July 7 is a punk-rock extravaganza: John Shirley and Richard Kadrey, the guys who put the "punk" in cyberpunk, reading together. Kadrey, of course, has reinvented...
View ArticlePUNKS NOT DAD pays tribute to Monkey Boots
Dan writes, "Monkey Boots: The latest hilarious DIY video from the middle aged British punk band, Punks Not dad. This time dealing with retro footwear and a west side story rumble between punks and...
View ArticleHOWTO make cheap Louboutin knockoffs
British women are painting their shoe soles bright red to replicate that expensive Louboutin look. For your own Beckhampunk effort, use Duracoat 'Flame' or 'Show Stopper' and a size 4 brush. [Telegraph]
View ArticleHow Henry Rollins gave up scooping ice-cream to be a full-time punk
Henry Rollins makes an appearance in the Big Think video series, explaining how he came to quit his job at the Haagen Dazs to sing for Black Flag. Jason Gots writes on Big Think: That was 30 years...
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Disinfo Podcast interview with Henry Rollins
Matt Staggs, the host of the Disinfo podcast, says I interviewed legendary punk icon, world traveler, and lecturer Henry Rollins, Rollins. He is intensely focused on creating a better world and a...
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Pussy Riot's closing statement
Argument in the show-trial of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot -- who gave an unlicensed anti-Putin performance in a cathedral and now face harsh, Stalinist justice for daring to point out the...
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We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California -...
Jello Biafra as the president of the United States in Lovedolls Superstar, occupying an empty office adjacent to SST/Global, 1985. JORDAN SCHWARTZ We Got Power! is a book of nearly 400 photographs...
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World's tallest mohawk
A Tokyo fashion designer did a public appearance in New York's Washington Square Park in order to show off his 3' 8.6" mohawk, which has held the Guinness World Record for world's tallest mohawk since...
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Ronald Reagan collage art show by Winston Smith and friends
This Friday at Grant's Tomb in San Francisco, "The Beginning of the End: Ronald Reagan's Legacy," a show of new and classic collage art by Winston Smith, Fast, Cheap & Easy Graphics, Ron Donovan,...
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Dee Dee Ramone gets a posthumous art show at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal...
The Los Angeles Times reports that "The late Dee Dee Ramone will receive a posthumous gallery exhibition of his artwork thanks to street artist Shepard Fairey," at the Subliminal Projects gallery in...
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Fugazi, the edits: an entire discography remixed down to one album-length...
Fugazi in action. Photograph by Glen E. Friedman. Marc Weidenbaum at Disquiet writes about a new project of interests to all fans of Fugazi, DC hardcore, and cultural mashups: "This guy named Chris...
View ArticlePurple and blue natural wigs
Old wig ads have some inherent comedy, sitting at the intersection of fashion, human tissue trafficking, and so forth. But when you throw in enthusiastic descriptions of the "head turning, naturally...
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