Screaming Females are a 3-person self described "rock/rock/rock" band from New Jersey featuring Jarrett Dougherty on drums, King Mike Abbate on bass, and Marissa Paternoster on guitar and vocals. They're not incredibly famous and they're probably not on the cusp of a string of number 1 hits, but they put on a
mean show and they've got a
new album in a couple of months if rock/rock/rock should happen to be your thing.
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posted by sandswipe
on Jan 17, 2012 -
33 comments
Swissted New York graphic designer
Mike Joyce takes vintage flyers from punk, hardcore and indie rock shows and redesigns them "into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. Every single one of these shows actually happened."
posted by BitterOldPunk
on Jan 11, 2012 -
36 comments
Seeing so many Occupiers getting evicted made me think of
this short 1988 documentary by Nancy Kalow on homeless squatter punk teens in the Bay Area (
warning:cringe-inducing rapping in the opening scene). From their stories, it seems as if they had free reign of the abandoned Berkeley Polytech building for a while. Readers of
Cometbus who aren't from the Bay Area can see a bit of the scene he made sound so attractive. 1993 sequel,
The Losers Club.
posted by shushufindi
on Dec 2, 2011 -
5 comments
In Southern California in the 1980s, KROQ had this weird un-DJ-like guy named (seriously)
Rodney Bingenheimer, who came on late at night on Sundays and played punk records and new bands like Blondie, The Ramones, X, Joan Jett, Devo and Cheap Trick. Did this weirdo really have some influence? A 90-minute 2004 documentary now on YouTube,
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (Part 1) tells his story, and it's weirder than you may have imagined.
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posted by planetkyoto
on Nov 14, 2011 -
24 comments
For safety's sake, please consider all links herein either nsfw or potentially offensive*
Let's Have a Shambles! with the
Country Teasers!
Formed somewhere in Scotland in 1993 around one
Ben Wallers, the Country Teasers forged an unusual contrast between
acerbic lyrics, trash punk twang, and
honest affect(at)ion of
country-western tropes and
sounds. They were also equal opportunity offenders, their songs frequently featuring seemingly
misanthropic, misogynistic, and even
racist lyrics. But despite their affrontive controversy, perhaps
they aren't quite so easy to dismiss.
Though rarely does he give in-person interviews, Mr. Wallers will, when confronted,
defend his "schlock tease," though not without
characteristic aplomb.
Although the Country Teasers are pretty much dead,
their extensive discography has plenty of
noteworthy diversions.
Some albums to start with are 1996's
Satan Is Real Again or Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts, 1999's
Destroy All Human Life, and 2006's
Back to the Future.
Mr. Wallers continues to release new records under the moniker
The Rebel. A number of Teaser records were released on
In The Red records.
*Although if you do find it offensive, I'd simply request considering if that is perhaps the point.
posted by SomaSoda
on Nov 9, 2011 -
5 comments
The most vivid figure in Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields's End of the Century was the least articulate and most archetypal of the Ramones: Johnny, the right-wing prole whose hard-ass sense of style the others nutballed and softened and accelerated and above all imitated. ... Exciting and absolutely right though their '70s sets always were, the film establishes that they kept the faith live till the end, lifted by Joey's goofy dedication and powered by the chords Johnny thrashed out like they were why he was alive. As unyielding in his aesthetic principles as he was in everything else, this reactionary was an avant-gardist in spite of himself. -
Robert Christgau
posted by Trurl
on Nov 9, 2011 -
17 comments
Alex Cox:
REPO MAN was made as a "negative pickup" by Universal at the time when Bob Rehme was head of the studio. At the time, the big deal over there was STREETS OF FIRE, and nobody really noticed our film [8 MB PDF] at all. Which was lucky for us, since Bob Rehme had "green-lighted" a film which was quite unusual by studio standards. (previously)
posted by Trurl
on Oct 31, 2011 -
92 comments
Folk-punk,
Orgcore (
UD definition) and
Dadpunk are all names for a
new wave of earnest, authentic rock that draws its roots from The Clash,
Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Social Distortion and Bruce Springsteen. In England, its best represented by
Frank Turner, the former singer of hardcore band
Million Dead. His anthemic songs about
life on the margins of fame,
poetry,
death,
inspiration and
the power of rock and roll have made him famous in England, leading to an upcoming
show at Wembley Arena. He follows in the footsteps of British folk-punk pioneers
Leatherface.
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posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn
on Oct 23, 2011 -
92 comments
Hank Williams III has had a rocky relationship with his label, Curb Records, from the beginning, when his first album with them was
an album with his grandfather and father, "
thanks to the wonders of 21st century digital overdubbing." A decade and a half later,
Hank 3 was free from Curb Records, though the label snuck out one last album, even though the contract was over. It was actually
an old album from a decidedly non-country style, but that didn't stop Curb from
offering it as a Hank III album at a fire-sale discount, ensuring
Billboard Country charting. That was in June of this year. Jump ahead to September:
Hank 3 released three albums over four CDs, spanning his broad musical styles and beyond.
CD1:
country (of sorts);
CD2:
haunted ambient soundtrack and
Cajun-tinted country, with guests (
like Tom Waits);
CD3:
cattle-core;
CD4:
doom rock.
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 20, 2011 -
91 comments
Welcome to Vegas Punk House. Don’t break shit! Frontman, Fat Mike, of the punk band NoFX recently opened a "Punk House" available for renting while staying in Vegas. Complete with a mini golf course, 3 bedrooms (one with six bunk beds), punk flyers all over the walls, beer vending machine, and a "paltry" museum, for $400 dollars per 3 day stay, you can maintain you're punk lifestyle, albeit in luxury.
(VIDEO)
posted by Leisure_Muffin
on May 30, 2011 -
72 comments
Wallaby Beat is a blog dedicated to punk, DIY, powerpop, grillfat (pre-punk Australian hard rock) and NWOAHM from Australia 1975-1984. It follows projects like
Do The Pop,
Lethal Weapons, and
Inner City Sound in documenting Australia's fertile underground rock and roll scene. While those blogs and books are focused on the past,
I-94 Bar is documenting the scene as it stands today and interviewing the various survivors.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn
on May 1, 2011 -
17 comments
"From then on, the difference became clear. It’s the male band members who don’t take you seriously, and when you get upset with how you’re treated, ask you if you’re menstruating. It’s the promoters and planners who screw you, then call you a diva when you assert yourself. It’s the kids who don’t talk to you after your set, but talk to your male bandmates because they assume you’re only there for show. It’s the people who think you’re sleeping with the guitarist, the people who assume you’re queer, or the journalists who mention your weight in reviews. It’s every single time a producer has told me I can’t play guitar on my own record because “sweetie, you’re not a studio musician” or “sing it again, but naked.”
Mariel Loveland from
Candy Hearts and
Lauren Denitzio from
The Measure [SA] discuss sexism in modern punk rock. For further reading there's Jessica Hopper's classic essay
Emo: Where the Girls Aren’t.
Previously.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn
on Apr 18, 2011 -
39 comments
It’s maybe a
little early yet for year’s end retrospectives, but who cares:
we’ve got 157 songs, 10.5 hours, 1.12 GB of “some of the best and most notable music from 2010... covering indie, pop, rock, punk, folk, rap, R&B, soul, dance, country, modern classical, ambient and electronic music, and in many cases, hard-to-classify genre hybrids.” —Curated by FluxBlog’s own Matthew Perpetua.
posted by kipmanley
on Dec 3, 2010 -
30 comments
Bloodied but Unbowed "... chronicles, for the first time anywhere, the late 1970's/early 1980's Vancouver punk rock scene. The documentary tells a tale of rebellion and music — a fiercely independent scene created from nothing."
The full documentary can be seen
here.
posted by squeak
on Oct 12, 2010 -
31 comments
"...it's probably extra easy to trace my life & interests through these galleries. They start out in Kansas (most of the early non-Lawrence/ KC ones were sent to me either by people ordering copies of my zine or by a few pals of mine who had run away to CA), and as I move around in life the bands & venues change accordingly: Kansas, Ohio, Washington DC, Kansas again, Arizona."
The Jason Willis Flyer Collection, 1981-2006
posted by nomadicink
on Oct 3, 2010 -
4 comments
Touched By Your Presence, Dear: Ex-Blondie songwriter and bassist Gary Lachman (aka "Gary Valentine") blogs (and is interviewed) about his books on Jung, Steiner, Ouspensky, and Sixties mysticism, and his time spent toiling in the fields of Crowleyana and The Gurdjieff Work.
posted by darth_tedious
on Sep 14, 2010 -
20 comments
