- Quand Bruxelles était la deuxième capitale du post-punk (When Brussels was the second capital of post-punk) — Michel Duval and various Crépuscule bands interviewed. (Yes, it’s in French, you’ll live.)
- Mark Reeder and the secret history of East Berlin punk. (Die Toten Hosen were the first West Berlin band ever to play East Berlin.) “East Berlin was like the hardest club in the world to get into.”
- How the CIA was behind “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight”. Probably. Possibly. “In 1978, the CIA was caught up in a BDSM Cold War affair …”
- Debunking the whitewashed history of punk. Despite what you may have heard, punk and post-punk were in no manner made up of white blokes. The Selecter’s Pauline Black bludgeons the point home.
- In March, the Wikipedia article on “Hex Enduction Hour” by The Fall became a Featured Article. You can celebrate with this copy of the whole album on YouTube (just the original LP, not the bonus CD).
- “I burnt myself out in my early to mid-twenties trying to work on activist campaigns full time, and sold out a few years ago for an entry-level job at a software company. I’ve got a serious case of poor-kid survivor’s guilt …” (This was my trajectory, going from underemployable nonprofit lifer to overpaid geek. HOLY CRAP, HAVING MONEY.)
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