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Asylum caught up with Black Lips vocalist and guitarist Cole Alexander, who gave a grocery list of the items he recommends having on hand in the ideal garage band's garage, from equipment to atmosphere.Asylum caught up with Black Lips vocalist and guitarist Cole Alexander, who gave a... more
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Black Lips have premiered the music video for 'Short Fuse'. The track is off the band's new album, '200 Million Thousand', which was released today.Black Lips have premiered the music video for 'Short Fuse'. The track is off... more
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Black Lips have premiered the music video for 'I'll Be With You'. The video is off the band's latest album, '200 Million Thousand' which is now out.Black Lips have premiered the music video for 'I'll Be With You'. The... more
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Green Day have explained their decision not to censor their album at the request of US chain store Wal-Mart, which resulted in the store refusing to stock the record.
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Sounds like someone is trying to regain their punk cred.Green Day have explained their decision not to censor their album at the request of US... more
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Show the world you will not live by anyone's rules but your own as you watch Sergio Cilli count down the top alternative tracks in this week's White Hot Top 5. Includes music from Green Day, Kings of Leon, The Ting Tings, The All-American Rejects, and 3OH!3.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. For more Sergio visit http://current.com/topics/88805477_white-hot-top-5/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Show the world you will not live by anyone's rules but your own as you watch... more
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When you think about the American directors who embodied the independent-film wave of the 1980s, Jim Jarmusch stands alone in many respects. Peers like Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant and Wayne Wang moved on to a complicated dance between the mainstream and the margins, mixing bigger Hollywood pictures with smaller and ostensibly more personal projects. Other directors, like Alex Cox of "Repo Man," couldn't create economically viable career models and dropped off the film industry's radar screen altogether.
Jarmusch simply kept on doing what he started out doing. He probably could have parlayed the modest success of the laconic road movie "Stranger Than Paradise" and the equally laconic prison-break comedy "Down by Law" into a well-paying job infusing quirkiness into Hollywood scripts, but he never tried. As he said during our recent conversation in New York, he assumes each of his movies will be a "marginal cult thing," and that way he can be pleasantly surprised if it exceeds those expectations.
Maybe this sounds like an invidious comparison, but Jarmusch is the post-punk hipster generation's answer to Woody Allen. He makes the movies he wants on the schedule he wants, with little regard for current fashion or commercial viability. Although he's clearly American in orientation and outlook, he probably has more fans and followers in Europe than in America. Jarmusch works at a glacial pace that makes Allen seem positively prolific, having made just 10 features in 25 years, a number that includes his 1997 Neil Young documentary, "Year of the Horse."
But if Allen's films are more than anything about people talking, Jarmusch's films are about the silences between the words, a subject explored to perfection in his ravishing new slow-motion crime fable, "The Limits of Control." While I think Jarmusch's work is a mixed bag taken as a whole, his artistic ambition is exceedingly high and his best films are nothing like anybody else's. Taking his cues from such unpopular sources as Ozu and Antonioni, Jarmusch isn't much interested in plot for its own sake. He uses storytelling as a way to get from one perfectly framed and highly ambiguous moment to the next.
At one point in "The Limits of Control," the handsome, enigmatic and unnamed protagonist, played by Afro-French actor Isaach De Bankolé, has a cafe encounter somewhere in Spain with Tilda Swinton, also playing a nameless character and dressed in a ludicrous cowgirl get-up. The whole movie, in fact, is a series of such assignations, in which transactions occur that we can't quite follow. Swinton remarks that she likes those moments in movies where people sit there and don't say anything. Then the two of them sit there without saying anything. It's a highly Jarmuschian meta-movie joke, but it also begins to hint at the hidden meanings within the slowly unpeeling onion of "The Limits of Control."When you think about the American directors who embodied the independent-film wave of... more
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Will Crum and his band stealthily maneuvered themselves into the kitchen set at Ikea. They've done it before, at a Wendy's.
BADASS!
http://willcrum.com/Will Crum and his band stealthily maneuvered themselves into the kitchen set at Ikea.... more
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The Rosenthals are like the Cleavers, only punk. Henry, the patriarch, is a filmmaker and was the drummer in one of the first ever punk bands, Crime. His kids, 16 year old Lou Lou and 19 year old George, are also in a band, who just put out their first LP. Carola is a costume designer, band manager, and Mom. They live in a 6 story industrial building in San Francisco where they eat, sleep, work and jam. This is the new American dream.The Rosenthals are like the Cleavers, only punk. Henry, the patriarch, is a filmmaker... more
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Cramps founder and punk pioneer Lux Interior dies
Feb. 6, 2009, 1:21 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lux Interior, co-founder and lead singer of the pioneering horror-punk band the Cramps, has died, the group's publicist said. He was 62.
Interior — whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser — died Wednesday of a pre-existing heart condition at a hospital in Glendale, publicist Aleix Martinez said in a statement.
Interior met his future wife Kristy Wallace — who would later take the stage name Poison Ivy — in Sacramento in 1972.
The pair moved to New York and started the Cramps with Interior on lead vocals and Ivy on guitar. The group was a part of the late '70s early punk scene centered at Manhattan clubs alongside acts like the Ramones and Patti Smith.
Their unmistakable sound was a lo-fi synthesis of rockabilly and surf guitar staged with a deviant dose of midnight-movie camp. Some called it "psychobilly."
The pale, tall, gaunt Interior appeared shirtless with black hair and tiny, low-slung black pants, looking part zombie, part Elvis Presley as he crawled, writhed and howled his way across the stage.
The group had the raw intensity of punk, but took the music in new directions by incorporating theatrical elements, often horror-themed, in songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns." Their breakthrough debut EP was 1979's "Gravest Hits."
The band made a notorious appearance at a California mental institution, Napa State Hospital, in 1978. The performance, whose video is still popular on YouTube, was a punk-era echo of the Folsom Prison concert of Johnny Cash, one of the band's influences.
Interior was widely rumored in 1987 to have died from a heroin overdose, and his wife received flowers and funeral wreaths.
"At first I thought it was kind of funny," he told the Los Angeles Times at the time. "But then it started to give me a creepy feeling."
The Cramps' lineup changed often through the decades but Interior and Ivy remained the center. Their bluesy, trebly sound — the group didn't have a bass guitarist — resonates in modern minimalist groups like the White Stripes and the Black Lips.
The band's last release was the 2004 rarities collection "How to Make a Monster." They were still touring as recently as last November.Cramps founder and punk pioneer Lux Interior dies
Feb. 6, 2009, 1:21 AM EST
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Move over double dutch, ditch the yoga mat, this is punk rock, er punk rope.
Full details on the site, and whilst on paper it sounds crazy, I'd much rather hear gito gito hustler or the new bomb turks at the gym any day, as opposed to the usual hi-nrg, hi BPM dross you usually get.
dMove over double dutch, ditch the yoga mat, this is punk rock, er punk rope.
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Black Lips tour of India has been cancelled after the band were forced to escape the country while being chased by police.
The band were mid-way through a seven date tour of India when things went awry.
The trouble stemmed from an incident during the band's gig at Chennai's Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall on Friday (January 23), when guitarist Cole Alexander reportedly stripped and jumped into the crowd.
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TUCSON, AZ – Police call the actions of a local punk-rock band disgraceful after they chose to use a photo of slain Officer Erik Hite to promote their music.
The album, titled “Kill a Cop for God,” bears an Arizona Daily Star news photo that shows a wounded Hite lying on the ground with two officers administering aid.
Hite died after being shot by a gunman who led police on a crosstown chase last year.
The Star did not give the group, dubbed Awful Truth, permission to use the photo, Managing Editor Teri Hayt said.
“It’s a violation of copyright, and we have not, and would not, give permission for this photo to be used in any way,” Hayt said. “We have communicated with the band to take the necessary steps to get the image removed from sites that display and sell it.”
A song on the album also pays tribute to “the cop killers” and mentions John Montenegro Cruz, who killed Tucson police Officer Patrick Hardesty in 2003, and David Delich, who is accused of killing Hite.
Awful Truth singer David Stine said the album was put out in December. Its cover was meant to be “dark humor,” he said.
Stine said he does not apologize to anyone it may have offended.
“It’s a pretty serious picture, and the topic itself is, too,” he said. “It’s really dark humor, and as much as anybody else, we don’t particularly like cops, so we made a song about it.”
Capt. Clayton Kidd, Tucson police chief of staff, said he did not find anything humorous about the way the photo was used.
“What part of an officer giving his life is humorous?” Kidd said. "I ask for the community’s support in recognizing this is an absolute disgrace to Officer Hite, who gave his life defending our community.
“While they may have certain beliefs that they want to express, the venue in which they expressed it is disgusting, and I’m outraged.”TUCSON, AZ – Police call the actions of a local punk-rock band disgraceful after... more
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In a bizarre macabre account of divine intervention, Erik Larson amazingly encounters the All Mighty through a death proof hearse. Empowered to guide the lost, the Minister of Death mobs down the streets in his bequeathed vehicle of demise to enlighten the impressionable, the drug addicts, and the criminal element of the mortality that challenges them. Being scared straight may be the answer toward a future of sobriety.In a bizarre macabre account of divine intervention, Erik Larson amazingly encounters... more
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With his last album scheduled to drop soon. The Chicago rapper has formed a punk rock band called Japanese Cartoon and taken up singing in an English accent but denies it's him, claiming it instead to be a close friend of his.With his last album scheduled to drop soon. The Chicago rapper has formed a punk rock... more
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The tongue-and-cheekiness of the research aside, musicians have actually hurt themselves head-banging. A 15-year-old drummer in his neighborhood band suffered an aneurysm in his cervical vertebral artery, according to a 1991 case report in the journal Pediatric Neurosurgery, and Evanescence guitarist Terry Balsamo had a stroke three years ago that his docs blamed on his head-banging tendencies.
More in the link.The tongue-and-cheekiness of the research aside, musicians have actually hurt... more
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After 3...nazi punks, nazi punks, nazi punks......**** off
Not one for grand'ma post Christmas lunch I'd imagine.
dAfter 3...nazi punks, nazi punks, nazi punks......**** off
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NEW YORK (AP) — Never mind the auction block — here's the Sex Pistols.
Memorabilia from some of punk rock's biggest acts and seminal moments — including a scrawled flier for one of the Clash's first shows and publicity photos signed by the Sex Pistols — is headed for a Nov. 24 Christie's auction.
The event, announced Tuesday, includes more than 120 records, photos and promotional pieces for such punk, garage rock and new wave legends as the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, the Ramones, David Bowie, Blondie, the Cure and the Smiths.
The auction is Christie's first to focus on punk mementos, signaling the collectible status of a brash, anti-authoritarian rock movement that largely thumbed its nose at posterity.
"We understand that tastes change, tastes mature," said Christie's pop-culture chief Simeon Lipman. "Ten years ago, punk memorabilia probably wouldn't be something we'd be auctioning here. But now, people of a certain age have a certain ability to splurge on this material."
Should they care to, highlights include a rare poster for a 1976 Ramones concert in London widely credited with helping inspire such British punk titans as the Clash and the Sex Pistols and a flier for a show later that year featuring the latter two bands and the Buzzcocks.
Other prime finds: a copy of the Sex Pistols' first press release and a 1966 promotional packet in which an up-and-comer called David Jones promulgated his new last name: Bowie.
The various punk items are expected to fetch between $300 and $6,000 apiece.
The items generally weren't designed to last for decades, making the few that have survived all the more tantalizing, Lipman said.
Even when the global financial meltdown is sapping a once-raging art market, "with pop-culture items, there's sort of a nostalgia that drives it. It's not necessarily a need to invest — it's 'that's cool,'" he said.
The auction also features artist-designed toys and several big-ticket classic-rock collectibles, such as the portable organ John Lennon played in the Beatles' indelible 1965 appearance at Shea Stadium. Drawing a then startling 55,000 fans, it ushered in the era of stadium-size rock concerts.
The instrument was broken during the show and quickly traded in at an Atlanta music shop, where the owner realized its significance and held onto it, Lipman said. The now-functioning organ is expected to fetch $150,000 to $200,000.NEW YORK (AP) — Never mind the auction block — here's the Sex... more
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Tyra has lived all over the Bay Area in places like East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and San Francisco. From her perspective it seems that when communities are more diverse, they're more exciting. Stereotypes are easier to debunk among diverse crowds. Tyra has lived all over the Bay Area in places like East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and San... more
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