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Reviews: Black Arcade, Atlantic A.M., Bootblacks (2016).

11 October, 2016 Goth, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 1

Minimal synth darkwave with a fondness for Gary Numan, punky new-wave power pop and melodic post-punk with high bass.

Post-punk links: More secret histories.

26 September, 2016 Links, Post-Punk, Punk 0

Michel Duval and various Crépuscule bands, Mark Reeder, Dominatrix, the non-white and non-male nature of punk and post-punk, the Fall and what to do with ex-punk survivor’s guilt.

Hey, ho! Let’s go! Punk rock links.

23 September, 201624 September, 2016 Indie, Links, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

Pavarotti’s “Blitzkrieg Bop”, Kill Your Pet Puppy retrospective, a contemporary punk novel, Manchester punk history, Czechoslovak punk history, Scottish post-punk history and a children’s picture book on punk. The secret histories.

Christian Fitness: like a western Mark Smith.

15 September, 201615 September, 2016 Punk, Record 0

Christian Fitness is the one-man band of Andrew “Falco” Falkous of Cardiff post-hardcore (so, punk) band Future of the Left, and formerly of Mclusky. Focused and apposite punk ranting, sarcastic and angry, backed by a bloody racket with good tunes and at least half way decent recording.

All guitars: No Sister, Dot Dash, Susan, Strange Passage (2016).

8 September, 2016 Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Post-hardcore indie rock, punk pop, power punk pop and jangle punk.

Reviews: Fredrik Croona, Amelie Prime, London Plane (2016).

17 August, 201618 August, 2016 Industrial, Pop, Punk, Record 0

Futurepop, impassioned grunge and some new wave power pop. All with good tunes and a beat.

Links: Dr Dre and Apple, Alan Vega, Dangerous Minds.

16 August, 20169 September, 2018 Esoterica, Industry, Links, Punk, R'n'B, Your rights 0

Dr Dre and Apple’s new headphone jack, reminiscences on Alan Vega (and Bruce Springsteen) and clickbait for aging record nerds.

Dischord releases most of its catalogue on Bandcamp.

27 July, 201621 August, 2016 Industry, Punk 0

It’s the happening thing. Doesn’t appear to be everything they’ve ever released, but it’s a pretty fair chunk of it for you to try before you buy and give them your money.

The guy who called his band Suicide dies of old age.

18 July, 20165 September, 2016 Punk 0

Alan Vega has died at 78.

(78, not 68. He lied about his birth date for decades.)

Viv Albertine corrects British Library exhibition on punk.

16 July, 20166 May, 2017 Punk 0

Why does the history of punk rock seem so relentlessly white and male, when that’s nothing like how it happened? Well, you know why. And so does Viv Albertine of the Slits.

Industrial reviews: Psy’Aviah, Gamma 10, L.O.T.I.O.N.

14 July, 201621 September, 2016 Industrial, Punk, Record 0

Floaty EBM, instrumental EBM, industrial punk.

Links: Nirvana, fanzines, music as violence.

30 June, 201624 August, 2016 Punk, Writing 0

Apropos to sociological conditions in the early 1990s, here’s Nirvana just after Nevermind hit big.

Reviews: Amy’s Arms, Foster Body, Uranium Club (2016).

18 June, 201623 June, 2017 Goth, Indie, Punk, Record 0

Today we hit the Bandcamp for various recommendations of mates’ mates’ bands. Send yours in! At worst it’ll be ignored.

Blacklisters: Adult (2015).

25 July, 201514 October, 2016 Punk, Record 0

Early 1990s grunge, reproduced with 100% authenticity. Really, I felt like I was a 26-year-old student/bum again, smoking Lucky Strikes on a front porch in Perth, wondering if I too would ever find some way to hit it big with Generation X.

The Cramps’ long-lost video for “Human Fly” found.

24 April, 201528 August, 2016 Film, Punk 0

An item alluded to in epic-nerd-level Cramps coverage, but so rare nobody was even known to have a full copy. Here in the astounding

Danny Says: a documentary about Danny Fields.

29 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Punk 0

Danny Fields was there before the birth of punk rock in the US: he’s the guy who signed the Stooges and the MC5 to

Punk rock links.

18 November, 201428 August, 2016 Links, Punk 0

The legendary ABC After-School Special: Punk Syndrome: How Parents Can Avoid It. How to introduce Nirvana to your two-year-old. Will you make it big?

Punk rock is alive and well in Myanmar.

12 May, 20144 September, 2016 Punk 0

A great photo essay by Olaf Shuelke in Roads and Kingdoms of punk rockers and their kids, in full mohawked peacockery, putting on unlicensed

Do the ostrich.

2 November, 201315 January, 2017 Drugs, Punk 0

Hat-tip Lawrence Miles. “I still prefer to remember him this way.” From “Modern Dance” from Ecstasy.

The Damned, January 20, 2012, Melbourne

27 January, 20127 May, 2017 Live, Punk 0

In previous reviews the general superiority of Billboard as a venue has been mentioned and they remain applicable here; the light is better, the

Now I’m gonna be twenty-two.

6 January, 200923 May, 2014 Punk 0

Ron Asheton has died aged 60, apparently of “natural causes” with no suspicious circumstances. LOOK, PUNK ROCKERS, THIS JUST ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. JUST BECAUSE

Brucie Teardrop.

16 June, 200824 August, 2016 Punk, Rock 0

Back in my day, Bruce Springsteen was a ridiculously mainstream live rocker made pop star with “Born In The USA” and its ilk. I’d

Review: No Idea, Mutiny, Homewreckers – Empress, Fri 13th Sept 2002

1 October, 200223 August, 2016 Live, Punk 0

Garlic pills and codrals kept my cold from turning into the flu it was trying all week to become, so I could go catch the fun at the Empress on Friday.

Friday 13th made it a mini-Halloween for the night, with an appropriately themed night. The Empress didn’t need much of a makeover, with the usual red velvet and candleabra giving it a gothic feel to begin with. Various bits of cobweb, and a huge spider web (complete with spider) stretched across the back of the stage was enough to set the mood. Early on very few seemed to have dressed up for the occasion, but as the place filled up more zombies, devils and ghouls began to appear in the crowd.