Is Data Journalism The New Punk Rock? PSFK NOW FORM A BAND So went the first issue of British punk fanzine Sideburns in 1977 in the “first and last part in a series”. It might be 35 years old, but this will do nicely as a theory of data journalism in 2012. Why? Arguably punk was most important ...
Ian Astbury's steel-town blues Vancouver Sun In 1980, three years before The Cult emerged during the British punk movement, Astbury went to work at the Stelco plant in Hamilton, Ont., mopping up around the machinery. Astbury carries that memory with him, calling the experience "cathartic" and, ...
CBGB Music Festival Line-Up Announced New York Times (blog) Among them will be the premiere of “The Rise and Fall of the Clash,” a film about that seminal British punk group. The promoters are also planning a series of conferences and workshops aimed at helping working musicians, as well as an exhibition of ...
All for the pun of it Sydney Morning Herald Another track, It's Not OK to Listen to Skrewdriver, deals with the creeping element of aggressive nationalism at festivals such as the Big Day Out, but also talks about Skrewdriver: a '70s British punk band, notable for going on to adopt a far-right ...
All for the pun of it The Age Another track, It's Not OK to Listen to Skrewdriver, deals with the creeping element of aggressive nationalism at festivals such as the Big Day Out, but also talks about Skrewdriver: a '70s British punk band, notable for going on to adopt a far-right ...
Goings On About Town Night Life New Yorker Broadway at 44th St. (800-745-3000)—May 17: The Adicts are a long-running British punk band whose look is essentially a cartoony appropriation of the style of the murderous gang in Stanley Kubrick's “A Clockwork Orange.
The Troggs announce 'Wild in Concert 2012' Altsounds.com Dubbed by many as the "first British punk band" they have continued playing in their own uncompromising style of good basic rock music. Never strangers to controversy, many of their records were considered by the "powers that be" too suggestive for the ...
Afghan Whigs: Songs Of Love Gone Wrong, Done Right GPB But for some reason maybe because of Dulli's hyper-intelligent self-policing or the fact that this band's sweet spot is in a churn that requires metal-edged chord progressions and British punk drums along with McCollum's Curtis Mayfield-style guitar ...
Roky Erickson keeping the demons at bay Chicago Tribune Preceding Erickson, Human Eye set Ozzie Osbourne-style shouts over sci-fi keyboards and lumbering beats, Estrogen High's choppy guitars and yelping vocals recalled the original British punk era to a fault, and Bare Mutants played throbbing, ...
What's in a name? The story behind Seattle's biggest bands and musicians Seattle Post Intelligencer ... their name to Queensryche, pulled from the title track of their demo, “Queen of the Reich,” with the added addition of an umlaut over the letter Y. Love Battery got their name from the lyrics and song title by the British punk band the Buzzcocks.
