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.
posted by ifjuly
on Apr 29, 2013 -
15 comments
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.”
posted by Tom-B
on Jan 26, 2013 -
13 comments
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]).
posted by filthy light thief
on Jan 23, 2013 -
46 comments
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. [more inside]
posted by whyareyouatriangle
on Dec 16, 2012 -
16 comments
"Please help a dear friend, Sarah Kirsch, an important figure and driving force in the ’90s Bay Area punk scene and beyond. She continues to be an important part of our community, our culture, our music scene, and many of our lives.
Even if you don’t recognize this name, you probably know Sarah. She has been a huge part of the punk/radical community for decades as Mike Kirsch (Fuel,Sawhorse, Pinhead Gunpowder, John Henry West,Torches To Rome, Bread And Circuits, Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack, Baader Brains, Mothercountry Motherfuckers, etc.). She not too long ago came out as a proud trans-woman, and almost immediately was confronted with these terrible health problems."
Sarah Kirsch has died of
Fanconi Anemia.
[more inside]
posted by josher71
on Dec 6, 2012 -
21 comments
The Way They Were (SLYT... 1:07:45 'The tape fails there!')... an old Granada / Channel 4 program that was a compilation of Tony Wilson's
So It Goes a show that featured performances from some of the best British Punk and New Wave bands of the time.
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Aug 29, 2012 -
12 comments
You're a Monk, I'm a Monk, We're All Monks is a short video introduction to The Monks, a band
founded in 1964 by five American soldiers in Germany. They put out only one album, the abrasive, noisy, minimalistic
Black Monk Time in 1965, that sounded like nothing else at the time. They also dressed in all-black, shaved monkish tonsures in their hair and wore bits of rope as neckties. In 1966 they appeared on German TV shows
Beat-Club and
Beat, Beat, Beat, and played three songs on each,
Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice,
Monk Chant,
Oh, How to Do Now,
Complication,
I Can't Get Over You and
Cuckoo. Aaron Poehler interviewed The Monks and
wrote about their history back in 1999. That same year
they got
back together to
play at the Cavestomp festival. And here
The Monks are being interviewed by a hand-puppet on public access television in Chicago.
[The Monks previously on MetaFilter]
posted by Kattullus
on Jul 12, 2012 -
49 comments
WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing covered a range of cultural issues and was widely known for its innovative use of graphic art. Started as a simple one-man operation that included artwork and text solicited from friends and acquaintances, the production, team, and circulation of the magazine would grow over the years. Its content also evolved to cover a wider expanse of stories that captured a smart and artsy Los Angeles attitude that was emerging at the same time as punk, but with its own distinct aesthetic. The magazine’s energetic creativity and flair for the absurd would remain a constant. As design problems arose, solutions were often improvised on the spot, creating a quirky and prescient editorial sensibility that remains one of WET's most enduring legacies. Its layout and design helped to catalyze the graphic styles (NSFW) later known as New Wave and Postmodern.
posted by Trurl
on May 4, 2012 -
9 comments
Who Killed Nancy is a documentary examining the lives and deaths of
Sid Vicious and
Nancy Spungen. It features interviews with many of the people on the Punk scenes in both London and New York, including people who were in Sid and Nancy's Chelsea Hotel room on the night Nancy died.
posted by marienbad
on Apr 22, 2012 -
23 comments
