Launching a Book Into the Birthgrave
...hipster taste, we will be allowed to talk about awesome salvagepunk things … In a camply specific and overt way, Salvage punk is the creation myth of capitalism itself.”...
The Devil You Know
...not just British post- punk, but the more menacing Sting of alternative film and television: the mod hooligan of The Who’s Quadrophenia and the devious Sting of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone...
Fun Will Find a Way
...palm trees and an ocean breeze. But the reign of fun, in its Pablo Cruisian guise, was to be short-lived. New trends in pop music, triggered by the punk rejection...
Which Briefcase Full of Money Are You?
...don't mind. Unashamed of your weatherbeaten exterior, you possess mysterious and secretive power capable of vaporizing police, scientists and any punk dumb enough to open you up. What's inside you?...
TNI REX (1)
...Video: Magazine's 1980 Rockpalast concert There's a lot of startling good punk arcana to be found at Dangerous Minds, and this week Richard Metzger posted an hour-long video showing the...
Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis
We Are Your Friends is not our youth, but it might as well be
Sunday Reading
...first instant of picking up the tools" "Shaw thought the videos looked “pre-viral” and saw an opportunity to exploit them" "“Boston Punk Zombie,” reads the crudely-scrawled avatar of a green-mohawked...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...item, like headdresses mimicking various indigenous nations? The self-chosen nature of the world the appropriated item comes from? (You can choose to be a punk, so appropriating punk style seems...
Jar-Jar Jesus
...cosmic punk fantasy — into an automatic teller machine with plastic dolls, television specials, and breakfast cereals. Revisiting the series after a 16-year intermission, he completed the desecration by making...
Beauty Blogosphere 2.17.12
...feminine motifs, check out Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk band protesting the current political climate under Putin. These summer-dress-clad performers are downright fierce, and the potency of their message...
The Other Occupy Movement
...austerity—constituting a political force and providing for people’s basic needs. The okupa as political project emerged in Spain after the death of Franco in 1975 and exploded in the punk...
The Flies That Bind
...millions on the trash heaps of capitalism, without the benefit of leather accountrements, of crossbows, of punk haircuts, of post-apocalypse and-yet chic, who struggle against rejectamental death in the slurry...
Teenage Dream
...award-winning punk history book England’s Dreaming—had as the central tenet of Teenage that sometime around the beginning of the 20th century a “new stage of life” was created: “Teen age,”...
Vol. 20 Editors' Note: Off-Brand
...proof of the stranglehold than the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent exhibit titled “Punk: Chaos to Couture.” In an essay that departs from “fashion as art” to address the power...
Evicted Utopias
...(2008), was a collection of essays from his punk zine Scam, an upbeat chronicle of guerrilla punk shows, squatting, train-hopping, and intoxicated mischief in the late 90s and early 00s....
Off-Brand
...a “fabricated society of the spectacle” that has become perfectly controlled by corporations. There’s no better proof of the stranglehold than the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent exhibit titled “Punk:...