MetaFilter posts tagged with Punk

We can’t download a banh mi.

capnsue — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:24:43 -0800

Chris Richards, formerly of DC post-punk outfit Q and Not U asks: Are foodies quietly killing rock and roll?

Nuggets joins the Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:14:00 -0800

Garage Swim is a free, downloadable garage rock compilation put together by Adult Swim. It features the leading lights of the scene, including Jeff The Brotherhood, Thee Oh Sees, and King Khan.

Women of Punk

ifjuly — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:09:29 -0800

Women of Punk 30 shows containing almost 400 video clips exploring the role women have played in Punk music from the 70's to today, with rare interviews and concerts, videos, documentaries and feature films.

Behind The Mohawk

starscream — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:32:19 -0800

Interview with Kirk Thatcher , in which he talks about the time he played "Punk On Bus" in Star Trek IV. The song "I Hate You" wasn't included on the original soundtrack and was unavailable for purchase until the soundtrack was re-released in 2012.

Grand Theft Austerity

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:53:08 -0800

Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' The former Dead Kennedy talks to us about the state of modern punk – and modern American politics

"Your dad's a nutter! A skinhead priest!"

Kitty Stardust — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:08:50 -0800

Johnny Rotten reviews "Katy Perry: All of Me." [SLYT] Via Dangerous Minds.

If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:16:14 -0800

Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace talks about her first year as a woman since publically coming out as transgender last year. She'll address it further on Against Me!'s upcoming album, Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Laura Jane has already played the title track live, along with other songs from it like Osama bin Laden as the Crucified Christ. The album may have been delayed by the departure of their fourth drummer, Jay 'son of Max' Weinberg. Punknews has officially endorsed Mikey Erg as a replacement.

Boston Police attempting to infiltrate house shows

Greg Nog — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:09:55 -0800

“What is the Address for the local music show tonight?"

The biggest baddest beasts have easily been beat with one lucky shot.

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:05:44 -0800

Ghost Mice are a 'FIRST-WAVE folk-punk band' who sing about playing Dungeons & Dragons as a metaphor for overcoming depression, wanting to be loved like John Hickley loved Jodie Foster and recycling so Cthulhu doesn't invade. They've recorded splits with other folk-punk bands like Andrew Jackson Jihad and Defiance Ohio. Ghost Mice's song Monsters Get Slain is a heartbreaking anthem about healing from a lifetime of depression.

Energyne/Barco/Draino hot shot/Whack attack/Helium/N2O/Formaldehyde

item — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:32:15 -0800

The Cramps ripped it up, madly channeling the sordid specters of rock 'n roll's past while staying true to its psychedelic future, even when voxman Lux Interior was a lean 59 years old. The first show from their last-ever tour does nothing but prove it. Rot in Peace, Lux.

Contempt for every institution, except Fugazi

chrchr — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:42:11 -0800

Punk rocker John Roderick thinks Punk Rock is Bullshit.

Never to be sold

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:59:51 -0800

"All the Years of Trying" by Patrik Fitzgerald, taken from the documentary of the same name, is a modernized version of one of his old songs. The original Folk Punk (and Backstreet Boy) is still making music . More songs by Patrik: Tonight All Sewn Up Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart All My Friends Are Dead Now Little Dippers Mrs and Mrs Drifting Towards Violence The Cruelest Crime One Little Soldier Optimism Reject My Death The Bingo Crowd Moon In The Gutter Little Fishes Peel Session 1979 As Ugly As You Are

There are no words to describe the awful feeling I have inside of me

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:01:56 -0800

Heartfelt Minneapolis punks Off With Their Heads have just revealed Start Walking, the first video from their upcoming album Home. It follows on from the sound of their last album, 2010's In Desolation, and it's songs like Drive.

BUNK - a rock video for Nardwuar + the Evaporators

chapps — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:10:17 -0800

BUNK - a rock video for Nardwuar + the Evaporators ... mefi projects meets the awesomeness of narduar This mefi project (music video) [via mefi projects] brought back fond memories of the bizarreness of Narduar, UBC's CITR radio icon, and interviewer of everyone from world leaders to punk rockers (always with the quirkiest questions) ... previously) and also previously.

For revival, sin and soul

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:02:12 -0800

The Revival Tour documentary celebrates the annual acoustic folk-punk Revival Tour that was founded by Hot Water Music frontman Chuck Ragan. Now in its fifth year, The Revival tour has featured musicians like Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon, Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace, and British star Frank Turner. This year's lineup includes Chuck Ragan, Rocky Votolato, Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath, Streetlight Manifesto's Toh Kay, Jenny O, Loved Ones' Dave Hause and Jenny Owen Youngs. Folk-punk previously.

Videopunk

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:24:21 -0800

Videopunk, or, The Zen of KLCS

Punk Voyager was built by punks.

Tom-B — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:36:14 -0800

They made it from beer cans, razors, safety pins, and did I do this part already? Whatever. They loaded it with the most precious artifacts of human culture they could find in Mexican Johnny D-bag’s van. “You gotta make it faster than regular Voyager,” said Red. “So our culture gets to the aliens before the CIA’s fascist pseudo-culture.”

You wouldn't get that on Daybreak

mippy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:54:51 -0800

Winny Puhh, a finalist for the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Context, perform live on Estonia's prime breakfast TV show. You might want to turn your volume down a touch. There isn't a lot of information about the band in English, but here's their Estonian Wikipedia page. and for something more melodic, here's another contender, Pohja-Tallinn, with some Estonian rapping.

Glammed out opulence: Rococo punk through the decades

filthy light thief — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:09:21 -0800

If gears and brass aren't your thing, and you'd prefer your alternate history to take its influences from 18th century Paris, then Rococo punk might be your scene. But this is no new reaction to steampunk. Oh no, the Boston band The Upper Crust ("Let Them Eat Rock," "We're Finished with Finishing School," "Little Lord Fauntleroy;" previously) go back to 1995, and before them was Malice Mizer ("Illuminati," "Bel Air," "Au Revoir,"), though their visual style wasn't just Rococo glam (as seen here in "Beast of Blood" and "Garnet"). But the grandfathers to all these young punks was Adam and the Ants ("Ant Music," "Kings of the Wild Frontier," "The Prince Charming Revue" [YT playlist]).

JADED PUNK HULK

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:34:44 -0800

JADED PUNK HULK HAS HILARIOUS OPINIONS ABOUT PUNK. JADED PUNK HULK ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS. Brendan Kelly from The Lawrence Arms DENIES HE IS JADED PUNK HULK. JADED PUNK HULK interviews Brian Fallon from Gaslight Anthem. Part 2.

IT'S ALRIIIIGHT! IT'S OKAAAY! I'M MATT MOTHERFUCKING DIECKMAN!

Rory Marinich — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:59:12 -0800

I WAS CONCEIVED! ON THE EVE! OF THE FOURTH OF JULYYYYY!
WHEN MY DADDY DIED, YOU COULD HEAR THE BALD EAGLES CALL HIS NAME!

AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU GET OFF, YOU GET PAID!
YOU GO OUT, AND BUY THINGS FOR ONLY NINETY-NINE CENTS!

HEY! HOT BITCHES! GIVE ME SOME PUSSAY!

LE-VIT-RA VERSUS VIAG-RA!

— Memorable moments from the songs of Phil Buckman, AKA I Hate You When You're Pregnant. All his songs are available for free here. My personal favorites of his are Desiree, which is oddly comforting and touching for me, and Matt Dieckman, which is pretty much my go-to pep song now.

Johnno was a punk when we were all in our dads' bollocks

Mezentian — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:01:18 -0800

He’s got a shaved head, piercings, tattoos, love of punk rock – and a pension book. Leicester’s oldest punk is a familiar sight in the city centre. His incredible story, however, is less well known. The article is two-years-old, but he's still kicking and The Captain recently tweeted a photo of him and Johnno. Some video of Johnno on stage with the band. Johnno also features in this video from forgotten second-wave goth rockers Every New Dead Ghost. The Damned didn't have many actual music videos for Top of the Pops, but here they are: * New Rose (1976) * Smash It Up (1979) * Plan 9, Channel 7 (1979) * Grimly Fiendish (1985) * Shadow of Love (1985) * Is It a Dream? (1985) * Anything (1986) * Gigolo (1986) * Alone Again Or (1987) * Eloise. The Damned, of course, are still going, and recently celebrated 35 years of anarchy, chaos and destruction despite several break-ups, and here they are in 1977. And here's a Peel Session. The Damned have a unique place in the history of punk music, particularly '77 punk as we know it today. They were the first to tour the states and probably the first band to release an obviously punk single . New Rose was, of course, contested as the first punk single, but it did beat out The Sex Pistols in the UK. Trouser Press has a relatively complete history, and they released their last original record in 2008, although anniversary re-issues of Damned Damned Damned with a previously unreleased bootleg of the band’s very first gig at the 100 Club in 1976. The band still tours, and has even dabbled in video games. You can even learn how to dress the same way Mr Vanian did for a while in the 1980s when the band popped into some student housing near Scumbag College to save the world with pop music. Bonus 1: a Time photo essay on early punk. Bonus 2: Vanian has had a rockabilly-inspired band, The Phantom Chords and a TV show of sorts (Part1,Part2) Some Damned trivia. The Damned are now considered classic rock.

Eric's Trip Video 1990-96

whyareyouatriangle — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:30:37 -0800

Eric's Trip, first Canadian band to be signed to Subpop. (video is halfway down the page: I was unable to extract a workable link to include here) I've collected a lot of stuff from friends over the years and luckily, i personally bothered to lug 4 tracks machines, mics and old video cameras to the shows at the time. Talking friends into holding the camera or keeping an eye on the input levels. I'm really glad i kept all those VHS tapes and reels of super8 films safe. The boxes of cassettes stored at my folks house still play great after 20 years. In 2007 i started transferring all these tapes into digital form to put this movie together, dubbing old VHS tapes was the scariest thing as some of them would barely play but i eventually got them all. I was excited that with use of modern editing stuff, i could finally sync up old video with better sounding tapes recorded at the same show, or editing together footage i had with someone else’s camera angle of the same show that i got from them years later. I worked on this movie for four years with much love until i finally had what i thought was a good document of what Eric's Trip really was. 0:00 - Super8 film footage of downtown Moncton shot by Rick, early 90's. *ED VAUGHAN is our drummer in all pics, music and video until 8:33 of movie. 0:30 - VHS dub, live footage of "I Exist" from Kacho, Moncton - May 18th 1991. Live camera audio. 2:21 - 1st cassette release from Dec 1990, band photo summer 1990, audio excerpt "Beauty was all froze" from cassette. 2:36 - 2nd cassette release from Apr 1991, Thompson basement rehearsal pics spring 1991, audio excerpt "Beatings" from cassette. 2:50 - 3rd cassette release from July 1991, VHS dub of footage in fields shot August 1991, audio excerpt "Fall" from cassette. 3:50 - VHS dub, live footage of set up and excerpt of "Sunlight" from the Warehouse pub, Moncton - July 13th 1991. Shot by Ken Leblanc. Live camera audio. 5:07 - Audio clips of CKUM radio interview with Robert Gauvin, summer 1991. Photos: 1st show City Hall lobby April 21 1991, posed shots spring 91, live at Warehouse pub July 13th 1991, live at Kacho Sept 30th 1991. 6:41 - VHS footage from last show with Ed on drums shot by Claude Leger at Kacho, Moncton Sept 30th 1991. Tape was in rough shape and footage has been edited to cover the holes, and synced up with a board mix cassette of the show. Song is "Lost Inside". 8:22 - Picture of Ed Vaughan, summer 1991. 8:33 - "Naked in the Marsh" 10 inch Moncton compilation recorded autumn 1991 as three piece band. Audio is excerpt of "Sickness" from the session, live photo from 3 piece gig in Fredericton November 1991. … 1:43:08 - Last show footage from McNaughton Highschool on June 16th 1996. This dark, back of the room camera is the only one we have of the whole show, the song is "Follow" and the audio is live from camera. Some pics by Catherine Stockhausen and Tara White. 1:45:47 - End of show footage, end of movie.

What I'd Give To You

OmieWise — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:12:44 -0800

Rites of Spring, Live at 9:30 Club, 1985: Hain's Point (and another 1985 version from BCC Comm. Center) For Want Of Theme (and another 1985 version from BCC Comm. Center) Nudes (and another 1985 version from BCC Comm. Center) Spring (and another 1985 version from BCC Comm. Center) Patience [BCC Community Center] All There Is Remainder Deeper Than Inside Drink Deep (and another 1985 version from BCC Comm. Center) All Through A Life [BCC Community Center] Hidden Wheel [BCC Community Center] Apartheid No/Freedom Yes In Silence/Words Away End on End

Happy holidays, everyone!

BitterOldPunk — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:03:05 -0800

It's A Bad Brains Christmas, Charlie Brown (SLVimeo)