Tag: punk
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Friday Rock N Roll Idols: Sleater Kinney
A lot of folks know Carrie Brownstein from her Portlandia brilliance, but long before she was a TV star, she was in one of the best, coolest bands ever: Sleater-Kinney. The band peaked in the mid-90s, but spiritually they’re directly related to the best 80s punk had to offer–and their spirit lives on with the…
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Friday Morning Rock and Roll Idols: The Dead Kennedys
What can I say about the DK’s? I never listened to a lot of hardcore, but at the risk of revealing that I am and always was a bit of a poseur, I’d call them “accessible hardcore,” owing to their intelligent, often scathingly satirical social, cultural, and political underpinnings. I missed out on the Sex…
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idols: Husker Du
The best live bad, maybe ever…Diane, Hate Paper Doll, and Green Eyes.
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idols: The Jam
The Jam were the coolest, and not well known here in the USA, but even after all these years I’d argue they were one of the great bands of their generation. I can’t help thinking how much better my youth would have been if their music had been bombarding all of us from the radio…
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Violent Femmes
Like a lot of these videos, this is more brillance from the eighties, which weren’t at all like cheese-eating high schools kids who watch cable replays of “Pretty In Pink” think they were like. The Violent Femmes were a taut little Indie band from Wisconsin who wrote short, sweet, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sly little…
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Girl In A Coma
Art, in its multitudinous forms, rewards our attention every once in a while, and all too rarely, with small beautiful moments where thrill meets surprise–I find them most regularly in poems, but also in poems, paintings, and even in pop songs and punk rock. Such was the case with the little Texas band Girl In…
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Excerpts From Old Email–The Pixies, Tony’s Theme
I’ve saved a lot of email over the years–sort of an electrical pack rat, I guess (put on your Philip Dick and think on that for a nano). I’ll be cleaning up and sharing the best of it with you. Brian wrote: Hey man, how in the hell did I miss the Pixies? Where was…
Old Road Apples 