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Swedish contemporary punk from Holograms
Stockholm-based quartet Holograms mine and modernize the desolate punk landscapes that spawned Joy Division, Wire, and The Wipers. It's gritty, lo-fi punk (and post-punk) elevated by singer Andreas...
View ArticleDead Kennedys perform "Holiday In Cambodia" (1982)
Dead Kennedys perform "Holiday In Cambodia" in 1982 on the pioneering Los Angeles TV program New Wave Theater. The song appears on DK's still-killer debut LP, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. (The...
View ArticleIggy Pop performs "The Passenger" (1977)
The inimitable Iggy Pop performs a searing rendition of "The Passenger" live at The Apollo in Manchester, England, October 1977.
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Cute Girl Network: adorable, illustrated skate-punk love-story
The Cute Girl Network, a hilarious and sweet rom-com graphic novel by Greg Means, MK Reed and Joe Flood hits stores today. It recounts the adventures of Jane, a smart, no-BS young woman who is the...
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Dead Set: a supernatural punk YA novel from Richard "Sandman Slim" Kadrey
Just in time for Hallowe'en, Richard "Sandman Slim" Kadrey's publishers have released Dead Set, a young adult novel about a San Francisco teenager who ventures into the Egyptian underworld to rescue...
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Riot Grrrl, redux
Alien She is a new exhibition that examines the lasting impact of the punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl on artists and cultural producers working today. It’s currently on view at Carnegie Mellon...
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Punk Freedom of Information Access ninja learns how to beat FBI obfuscation,...
Mike sez, "In Mother Jones, Will Potter profiles Ryan Shapiro, a punk rocker-turned-PhD student who wanted to study how the FBI monitors animal-rights activists. Through trial and error, and a lot of...
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Punk mermaids
From Claire Almon's sketch tumblr, a pair of wonderful punk mermaids. My punk rock mermaids! (via Seanan McGuire)
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Fashion Beast: long-lost, Watchmen-era Alan Moore/Malcolm McLaren comic
Fashion Beast was a ten-issue comic created by Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren -- the impresario behind the Sex Pistols, who "invented Punk as a Situationist prank." The project began as a screenplay...
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Happy Fangs: anthemic female punk pop
Happy Fangs is the punk pop duo formed last year by singer Rebecca Gone Bad (formerly of My First Earthquake) and guitarist Michael Cobra of King Loses Crown, plus drum machine. Their self-titled EP,...
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Scott Asheton, drummer for The Stooges, RIP
Scott Asheton, co-founder and drummer of The Stooges, died on Saturday at age 64. Iggy Pop posted the news on Facebook. The drummer's older brother, Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, died in 2009.
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Documentary about anarchist punk band Crass
Above, watch the entirety of "There Is No Authority But Yourself," a 2006 feature documentary about seminal anarcho-punk band Crass. It was directed by Dutch filmmaker Alexander Oey.
View ArticleExcellent 50+ song collection of late '70s punk
[Video Link] The Saints, The Scientists, The Simpletones, and even some 60s garage punk bands are in this excellent YouTube lineup. See also: The Zombies and the Outer Limits are a good combination
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Punk's not dead in Myanmar
Check out this amazing photo essay of punk rock in Myanmar (Burma) by Olaf Schuelke for Roads & Kingdoms. [HT: Michelle Borok/Giant Robot]
View ArticleBuddy Holly's unstoppable punk
Dooley writes, "Introduced on national TV by Arthur Murray's wife... 'And now we have some young singers who are creating a great deal of excitement in the Paramount Theater here in New York... Now if...
View ArticleA counseling session with Circle Jerks' Keith Morris [RiYL 54]
Recommended if You Like is Boing Boing's weekly podcast of Brian Heater's cafe conversations with musicians, cartoonists, writers, and other creative types. It takes a few minutes to shake the feeling...
View ArticlePunk hedge-fund performs "Multi Media World"
Toronto's Parkdale Hookers International Inc, "a business conglomerate, hedge fund and punk rock group" have released Multi Media World, a great punk-anthem single from their new album Echo Bubble...
View ArticleBob Mould: An Old Punk Kicks New Ass
[YouTube link] For 35 years, Bob Mould has been an icon of punk culture. In 1979, he and Hüsker Dü played their first show, paving the way for Nirvana, The Pixies, Foo Fighters, and really the entire...
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That reaction gif you've been looking for
Punk dancing on street of london, 1970s . (via Goths and Punks)
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Coffin Hill: horror comic that mixes HP Lovecraft with black eyeliner
Horror is hard to pull off, partly because there's something inescapably adolescent about the thrill of giving yourself goosebumps. But in Coffin Hill, novelist-turned-comics-creator Caitlin Kittredge...
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