punk
Punk on Show: Was England Dreaming?Monday, 17 September 2012![]() On the 35th anniversary of the year punk met the mainstream, it’s to be expected that retrospection and nostalgia are in the air. Television has had a go, albums are being reissued and old soldiers are telling their stories. By its very nature an... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, The Gary Burton Quartet, Heavy Metal Kids, Boyce & HartSunday, 16 September 2012![]() Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: Global A Go-Go, StreetcoreLisa-Marie FerlaAs well as marking the 10th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death, 2012 would also have been the year the legendary Clash frontman turned 60. The reissue of these two... Read more... |
CD: P!nk - The Truth About LoveWednesday, 12 September 2012![]() It's hard to hear P!nk without thinking of the kind of “punks” that scowl in the corners of American high-school movies, possibly befriending some “nerds”, revealing a sensitive side, and/or standing up to a “jock” at some crucial point in the plot... Read more... |
Shut Up and Play the HitsTuesday, 04 September 2012![]() According to US television anchor Stephen Colbert, there are only three ways to end your career as a rock star: overdose, overstay your welcome or write Spiderman: The Musical. Rockers, he says, during a televised interview with LCD Soundsystem... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Green Day, The Ramones, Solomon Burke, Anthony MooreSunday, 26 August 2012![]() Green Day: The Studio Albums 1990-2009Thomas H GreenPrior to a trilogy of new albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!, all to be released by the end of the year, a box set arrives containing the eight albums that brought Californian trio Green Day to this... Read more... |
CD: Franz Nicolay - Do The StruggleWednesday, 01 August 2012![]() Describing the music of Franz Nicolay is a formidable task: it’s almost as easy to imagine the work of some of the bands he has loaned his considerable talents to in the past - most notably during his five years as a member of The Hold Steady - and... Read more... |
Punk Britannia: Post-Punk (1978-1981), BBC FourSaturday, 16 June 2012![]() The Sex Pistols played their final live show on 14 January 1978 in San Francisco. According to the third and final programme in the Punk Britannia series, “for many, it would be the end of punk”. It certainly was for ex-Pistol John Lydon, who'd form... Read more... |
CD: Patti Smith - BangaSaturday, 02 June 2012![]() At the age of 65, you would be forgiven for thinking that punk rock high priestess Patti Smith has every justification for winding down (the odd eccentric covers collection to keep the kids amused aside, of course). Indeed, her actions of the past... Read more... |
Punk Britannia, BBC FourSaturday, 02 June 2012![]() “We didn’t have a real agenda. We just wanted to play some tunes and have a good time.” Thus spoke the immaculately suited but still mischievous-looking Mick Jones. And thank goodness he said it because, from the off - even before the off - I didn’t... Read more... |
CD: Public Image Ltd - This Is PiLSunday, 27 May 2012![]() Lydon is currently having a slight return. I caught PiL’s gig at Heaven a few weeks ago (featured as a bonus DVD disc on the deluxe edition of This Is PiL and reviewed elsewhere on theartsdesk). I wasn’t expecting much. Lydon, once the edgy heart of... Read more... |
Offspring offer first taste of ninth studio albumTuesday, 08 May 2012Everybody's favourite 1990s guilty-pleasure punks The Offspring release ninth studio album Days Go By next month, and the band has just made the title track available as a taster. Take a listen below."I don't know why but I felt sort of serious... Read more... |
Bow Wow Wow, Islington AcademyTuesday, 01 May 2012![]() It’s hard to think of any other records as exuberantly hedonistic as the handful of singles this London band rattled off at the beginning of the 1980s. Yes, they were accompanied by the then necessary punk sneer which said, This is all strictly... Read more... |
