The Jack Rabbit Speaks: Volume 16, Issue #20 BATHROOM BEACONS PROJECT This is just too brilliant, valuable and hysterical to NOT share with you. “We have just launched a Kickstarter Campaign for the Bathroom Beacons project, five unique art installations that will be going up around the inner-playa to make it easier for the denizens of BRC to find the […]
Anything Boys Can Do – Ethan H. Minsker: 1996 Blitzkrieg Bop; The Roots of Punk Rock The Decline of western civilization Atlantic Television, Inc.;Spheeris Films, inc.; Penelope Spheeris. 1981 The Decline of western civilization. Part 2. The metal years New Line Cinema presents and I.R.S. World Media production; a Penelope Spheeris film.1988 The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Julien Temple: […]
Anti-Flag, A New Kind of Army. Go-Kart Records, 1999. Bad Brains, Rock for Light. “Attitude”,”Banned in D.C.”,”Destroy”, “I” Caroline, 1983. Bad Religion Black Flag The Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady. EMI The Cramps, Songs the Lord Taught Us. “TV Set”, “Garbageman”, “I Was A TeenageWerewolf”, “Sunglasses After Dark” UNI/IRS, 1980. Crass, The Feeding of 5000. “Do they owe us a living”, […]
Bayley, Roberta, et.al., Blank Generation Revisited the Early Days of Punk Rock. Simon and Schuster Macmillan, New York, 1997. McDermott, Catherine, Street Style: British Design in the 80s. Rizzoli, New York, 1987. Kozak, Roman, This Ain’t No Disco. Faber and Faber, Boston, 1988. Don Snowden and Gary Leonard, Make the Music Go Bang: The Early L.A. Punk Scene. St. Martin’s […]
Mark Anderson and Mark Jenkins, Dance of Days; Two Decades of Punk in the Nations Capital. Soft Skull Press, New York, 2001. Simon Firth and Andrew Goodwin, On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word. Pantheon Books, New York, 1990. Simon Firth, Andrew Goodwin and Lawrence Grossberg, Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. Routledge, New York, 1993. Attali, J., […]
Bill, Mark and Tom of The Connection met at Oberlin College in Ohio about three years ago and have been making music together ever sense. Although The Connection is not a typical “punk rock” band, these three dedicated musicians embrace the punk DIY (do-it-yourself) mentality. The Connection writes, produces, and distributes all of their music. They also currently live in […]
One place where the punk ideology attempts to remain pure is on the concert tour known as the Warped Tour (now known as the Vans Warped Tour). This tour was designed by Kevin Lyman in an attempt to give local punk bands recognition. The tour happens annually each summer and it usually consists of bands from small and independent labels. […]
In the 1970’s England went through a severe economic recession. The 1960’s revolutionaries had brought about an idealism that promised a better standard of living and the youths of this time period were angered by this false hope. Punk music, usually comprised of hard, fast and loud sounds accompanied by lyrics containing profanities, was a nihilistic expression of social disdain. […]
“Plastic trash bags, bondage wear, Nazi regalia, slashed clothing held together with safety pins, multicolored hair spiked up with Vaseline, lurid make-up, and, most shocking of all, safety pins worn through flesf of cheeks, lips, nostrils, and ears” (Henry, p. 80). This is a description of the fans at a Sex Pistols concert in 1976. In the early 1970s the musical movement known […]