The push is on to save fabled Bowery punk rock cradle CBGB, which opened in December of 1973 and is now in the last month of its lease. “Little” Steven Van Zandt (profile and interview here) has picked up the banner of the club, which is in conflict with its …
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Juliette and the Licks
I’m not sure why Juliette and the Licks’ label thought it would be a good idea to release an EP early in the year (…Like a Bolt of Lightening) when the full-length album was expected to be released just a few months later (You’re Speaking My Language). In any case, …
Read More »Patti Smith, Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters
Punk poetess Patti Smith, still rocking at 58, received one of the highest French cultural honors, the Order of the Arts and Letters, from Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres at an AIDS concert in Paris yesterday. An abashed Smith said she accepted the award “from the most spiritual side …
Read More »The Butchies – Make Yr Life
Years ago, I fell in love with the music created by queer feminist power pop rockers The Butchies (Kaia Wilson, Melissa York, and Alison Martlew). Their first full album Are We Not Femme? is on rotation in the soundtrack of my post-college music experience. Six years later, a more mature …
Read More »INDIE ROUND-UP for March 24 2005
This is the first regular installment of a bi-weekly review of CDs, performances, news and events that cross my path or strike my fancy. Enjoy! INDIE ROUND-UP for March 24 2005 === Cadillac Moon rocked the house at Cornelia Street Cafe last night in a return engagement. The eight-piece blues …
Read More »Strummer Train
The late Joe Strummer – singer, songwriter and guitarist of the Clash – had a train named after him at a ceremony Feb. 12 at Bristol Temple Meads railroad station in southwest England. The locomotive is a Class 47 diesel, originally designed in 1962. After being named, the train will …
Read More »The Chicago and New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Bands and Le Tigre – Papa, Don’t Lay That Shit On Me
Second-wave feminists in the late 60’s and early 70’s had a rock and roll voice, sung by bands such as the Chicago and New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Bands. Precursors to today’s riot grrl and queercore bands, they broke through and gave women in the liberation movements their own rock …
Read More »CD and Concert Review: The Explosion
Good songs, good musicians, an excellent CD and great live energy make The Explosion well worthy of carrying on the tradition of their punk forebears.
Read More »The Slits – Cut
One of the first female punk bands of the late seventies was the Slits. Never heard of them? You should.
Read More »CD REVIEW: Last Burning Embers, Lessons in Redemption
Punk, even the sophisticated variety to which this aspires, needs attitude.
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