It has always bothered me a bit that the Los Angeles punk scene of the late 1970s and early 80s is viewed by some as being sort of behind New York and London in terms of importance and influence, when the fact is that it’s really the opposite: Los Angeles was just as interesting, if not more so, than those other places. For every person I see reading Please Kill Me (which is a crucial book, no doubt), I really […]
This is not a punk shirt
Posted by Jason Diamond Once upon a time it was a punk shirt. Kurt Cobain made one with a marker and wore it on Saturday Night Live in 1992. Now it’s considered retro and being sold at Forever 21. The only good that can come out of this shirt is that it has given me reason to post this video of Flipper doing “Sex Bomb” in the 80s. Update: Also to note from the Forever 21 Wikipedia: “Forever 21 has […]
Vol. 1 Presents: The Future of What?: A Panel on Punk in the 1990s
On Wednesday, January 5th, 2011, join Vol. 1 Brooklyn editors in this discussion with four authors as they talk about the decade that punk broke, sold out and eventually died — but not before changing the faces of music, politics and popular culture. Featuring: Sara Marcus (Author of Girls to the Front: The True Story of Riot Grrrl Revolution), Eric Davidson (New Bomb Turks, Author of We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001), Norman Brannon (Texas is the Reason, […]
Justin Taylor Remembers Florida Punk Rock/Grindcore
Over at the Annalemma blog: A: Did you listen to a lot of Hot Water Music at all? I actually didn’t. I know some of their stuff, and I’ve seen them play a few times, but I don’t think I own any of their records. Before I lived in Gainesville, I think the only No Idea band I knew was Less Than Jake. And of course when you’re just listening to music and going to shows, you aren’t always keeping […]