Post(Graduate)Punk is a Tumblr blog that seems to have stopped about a year ago, but I’ve been enjoying their pointers and rambling opinionation on punk, post-punk and the stuff that’s been retrospectively tagged “goth”.
As well as the general cultural history and musings tags, I particularly recommend these two amazing epics:
- There is No Authority But Yourself: The Cult of Crass & the Politics of Ecstasy — the band Crass and their subcultural position in early hardcore punk;
- Bad Vibrations: The Sisters of Mercy, Psychic TV, and the Complicated Legacy of the 1960s Counterculture — in which Genesis P. Orridge and Andrew Eldritch are used as lenses through which to examine the cultural influence of the American ’60s on the British ’80s.
A young Gen.
This family tree of bands who all violently rejected the label “goth” is also a delight:
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