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Young Siouxsie Sioux photographed at the beach
04.27.2012
12:16 pm
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Well no wonder she looks so great at 54! She had a sunscreen regimen going on back then.

I don’t know who the guy is, though. Anyone?

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.27.2012
12:16 pm
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‘A Film About Punks And Skinheads’
04.26.2012
11:23 pm
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The 1983 documentary UK/DK: A Film About Punks And Skinheads features some great live performances from The Exploited, Disorder and The Adicts, among others. It does a solid job of capturing the tail end of the British punk scene as it was being supplanted by hardcore and the pop elements in the music replaced by something faster, more aggressive and humorless.

Featuring lively interviews with band members, journalists and fans… and lots of Crazy Color and mohawks. One of the better documentaries on the subject I’ve seen.

Exploited – Fuck The USA
Vice Squad – Stand Strong Stand Proud
Adicts – Joker In The Pack
Blitz – New Age
Business – Blind Justice
Adicts – Viva La Revolution
Varukers – Soldier Boy
Chaos UK – No Security
Disorder – Life

The Damned provide comic relief.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.26.2012
11:23 pm
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The spawn of Devo: The Visiting Kids
04.26.2012
07:48 pm
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If Visiting Kids strike you as Devo-esque, it’s probably because this late 80s surreal spin on “The Partridge Family” was founded by Mark Mothersbaugh’s wife at the time, Nancye Ferguson, and included Bob Mothersbaugh and his daughter Alex, and Devo drummer (their fourth) David Kendrick. Mark wrote some of the tunes for the group and Bob Casale produced the Visiting Kids’ only album, which was released in 1990 on New Rose (it’s extremely rare).

Here’s Visiting Kids singing the appropriately titled “Nepotism” with Bob Mothersbaugh sounding more than a little like Fred Schneider on vocals.
 

 
More Visiting Kids after the jump…

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Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.26.2012
07:48 pm
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L7 interviewing Nick Cave, George Clinton, The Beastie Boys & more at Lollapalooza 1994
04.21.2012
10:02 pm
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L7 on MTV interviewing The Breeders, Green Day, The Beastie Boys, George Clinton, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, A Tribe Called Quest and more at Lollapalooza 1994. Poet Maggie Estep is also featured.

This was when MTV still had a connection to music.

The bit with George Clinton is ridiculously cool.
 

 
Part two and some awesome live footage of LZ after the jump…

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Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.21.2012
10:02 pm
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Happy Birthday Iggy Pop!
04.21.2012
04:07 am
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Happy 65th birthday Jim Osterberg.

One of my all-time favorite rock n’ roll experiences was seeing Iggy at The Ritz in New York City in 1986. Iggy had started to clean up his act, in no small part thanks to his wife Suchi, and was in fine form. And the band was badass.

Bass – Phil Butcher
Drums – Gavin Harrison
Guitar – Kevin Armstrong
Keyboards, Guitar – Shamus Beghan

It’s amazing that some rockers like Iggy and Keith Richards that you didn’t think would last might outlast us all. Rock and roll: what doesn’t kill just makes you stronger.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.21.2012
04:07 am
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Rock outlaws: Interviews with Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Jello Biafra
04.20.2012
04:57 pm
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Iggy talks about lessons learned from David Bowie: “No,you’re not coming to the dinner table on heroin.”

Jérôme de Missolz’s documentary Wild Thing (2010) was made for French television and it’s a pretty good look at rock n’ roll outlaws from the 1960s thru to the present day.

Here are some excerpts featuring Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop and Jello Biafra. Lunch’s anecdote about The Dead Boys is a jaw-dropper. The Boys ate Lydia’s Lunch.
 

 
To watch the entire film (much of which is in French) click here. There’s some fascinating interviews (in English) with Eric Burdon, Genesis P-Orridge, Kevin Ayers and many more.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.20.2012
04:57 pm
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Bruce Springsteen singing ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’
04.18.2012
04:20 pm
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Robert Gordon, Tommy Dean, Bruce Springsteen and Dee Dee Ramone
 
I love this story from Backstreets magazine:

Among his many accomplishments, Joey Ramone also played a small but significant role in Bruce Springsteen’s musical career, as Bruce himself related in his liner notes for 1995’s Greatest Hits: “I met The Ramones in Asbury Park and Joey asked me to write a song for ‘em. I went home that night and wrote this. I played it for Jon Landau and, earning his money, he advised me to keep it.” The song in question? “Hungry Heart,” which in 1980 became the first Top Ten hit both written and recorded by Springsteen.

Joey Ramone’s own hilarious recollection of asking Bruce for a song, filmed during a 1995 radio interview, appears as part of a bonus video segment on the DVD of End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones, the great no-holds-barred documentary on the triumphs and tragedies of the band’s career. In grand punk tradition, Ramone humorously berated “that Landau guy” and remarked that Springsteen “owes us.” When the interviewer suggested that perhaps Bruce could sit in with the band sometime, Joey replied that The Ramones didn’t want to be onstage with “some Jersey boy screwin’ up our song” if he couldn’t keep up with their ultra-fast playing. Ramone did, however, conclude the interview on a slightly more serious note by expressing “admiration” for Springsteen.

 
Here’s Springsteen covering The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated.” Boston, April 22 2009. Not bad, but Springsteen ain’t no Johnny Ramone.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.18.2012
04:20 pm
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Must see TV: Timothy Leary, Billy Idol, The Ramones and Television
04.18.2012
03:08 pm
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While no one will mistake this for a historic meeting of the minds, it does have its odd charm. The Marshall McLuhan of punk Billy Idol chats with Timothy Leary about rock n’ roll, cyberspace and computers. “Pretty deep,” Joey Ramone observes while Television (the band) let old skool technologies like drums and guitars do the talking.

ABC In Concert, 1993.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.18.2012
03:08 pm
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The Ramones’ first press bio, 1975
04.17.2012
11:50 am
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The last paragraph is great.

Update: The original source for this is from Miriam Linna’s blog Kicksville 66.

Via WFMU’s FB page

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.17.2012
11:50 am
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Contort Your Tie:  post-punk icon James Chance the new face of Vivienne Westwood?
04.17.2012
09:41 am
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Legendary post-punk performer James Chance (aka James White, aka James Black, best known for the classic “Contort Yourself”) features on a fetching new tie print by Vivienne Westwood.

If you are a fan of late 70s No-Wave skronk AND snazzy ties, then this is may be of interest (here’s looking at you Richard!) However, to purchase this tie you’re going to have to hunt for it, as it is not featured on the Westwood website’s “Men’s Accessories: Ties” page.

And while we are on the subject, here’s a clip of the re-formed Contortions playing live in Poland in 2008:

 

 
Via Michel Esteban.

 

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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04.17.2012
09:41 am
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