Patti Smith performing at CBGB on the club’s closing night
Patti Smith in front of CBGB on Oct. 15, 2006 Today is Patti Smith’s birthday and a little over five years since CBGB’s closed. So…
Punk Archives: 12/2011
70 minutes of punk rock history: Bob Gruen’s ‘New York Dolls – Lookin’ Fine On Television’
Here’s some fabulous 1970s footage of the New York Dolls performing, talking and hanging out. Directed by one of rock and roll’s great photographers and…
Pre-punk Nina Hagen in East Germany, 1974
Although she’s celebrated as “the mother of punk,” the musical fruits of Nina Hagen’s early career sounded much closer to the tuba-led Bavarian oompah music…
The Stranglers, Blondie and Sex Pistols: Awesome live footage from 1977
This Dutch TV documentary from 1977 captures some brilliant performances by The Stranglers, Blondie and The Sex Pistols. The bands are firing on all cylinders…
All the World (and the Media) is Your Stage: Occupy Wall Street, Act II
The clueless conservatives chatterboxes on Fox News and AM talk radio cheering on the evictions of the rapidly dwindling in number Occupy sites around the…