...Punk: An Aesthetic is a beautiful, excellently curated book of punk photographs, zines, posters, album covers, and ephemera. It focuses on 1976-77 but features a broad collection of...
...image by imp kerr Fashion as an industry suffers from the same authenticity and credibility crises as punk, and both have sought remedies in the same fascist tropes...
...level of punk legitimacy not reached since the era when the combination of bleached hair and three chords was on its own automatically scandalous. The days of the Fraternal Order...
...A guest post by J. Temperance It's no secret that pop punk's mainstream success in the 1990s necessitated a retroactive redefinition of what could be considered "real" punk....
...New York punk scene took place in the bathroom at the Hungarian Pastry Shop. On a wall by the mirror, amidst all the other pretentious graffiti there, small, neat capital...
...in the Sonoran desert. Sixteen tickets sold in Portland. Now, onstage in San Francisco, the members of Discharge—the fastest, meanest, most uncompromising English hardcore punk band of the 1980s—must have...
...some readers as a paradoxical claim, given that the birth of punk itself is customarily dated to 1977, a year after Boston was released. But from its futuristic, post-apocalyptic cover...
...arranged into pyres. It is this situation that led Walter Owen to write arguably the first and last pioneering salvage-splatterpunk hybrid, The Cross of Carl (1931). A novella whose censorship...
...freight trains with a gang of four male friends, shoplifting from supermarkets, puking in convenience stores, going to basement punk shows and laying out at punk squats, prostituting herself for...
...stadium-rock status. Much like the punk music that the members of Pink Floyd considered from the serene distance afforded to rich musicians who were spared the ravages of recession, the...
...logic as an underground punk club is from a computer lab? Once upon a time this social network did exist, and it was called Makeoutclub.com. Nobody much talks about Makeoutclub.com...
White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest
...to some children that’s a green light for racist motherfuckerness. In junior high I followed the predictable route from alternative (no longer exists), to punk and self-proclaimed anarchist. I dyed...
...renaming themselves. (via Nancy Friedman, who knows a thing or two about naming). Pussy play: If you've been following the story of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk group whose anti-Putin...