Polysics: de-evolution Tokyo style
Tokyo synth-pop band Polysics clearly take their cues from Devo, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Shonen Knife and Yellow Magic Orchestra, but they do it so well,…
Punk Archives: 09/2010
Bad Brains, Suicide, Mink DeVille, Johnny Thunders and more at CBGB and Max’s 1978-80
Rare Japanese documentary footage of The Dictators, Suicide, Bad Brains, Mink DeVille, James Chance, The Ramones and The Dead Boys at CBGB, 1978. The Plasmatics…
‘Ah Pook is Here’: Fantagraphics publishing William S. Burroughs graphic novel from the 1970s
During my guest blogging stint at Boing Boing in Spring of 2009, when I posted about the traveling exhibit of the unseen and unpublished William…
Young punk icons at CBGB New Year’s Eve party in 1975
Fascinating! This short film by Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group takes a look around a New Year’s Eve party at CBGBs. Viewing this…