William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll by Casey Rae review – countercultural...
Source: The Guardian, 21 Nov 2020
From Bowie to Cobain, heavy metal to Blade Runner – how the Naked Lunch author changed pop culture
The writer William Burroughs was a fringe figure until...
A new book on American punk paints the movement as the last gasp of...
Source: Jacobin
BYALEXANDER BILLET
Review of We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, by Kevin Mattson (Oxford University Press, 2020).
In music, ubiquity...
New Romantics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwhRTueHF-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geH8jL8Xo5c
A Certain Ratio on Ian Curtis, Martin Hannett, Grace Jones and a new album
‘People in raincoats with short hair were going ‘what the f***’s this?’ ’
Factory legends A Certain Ratio on Curtis, Martin Hannett, Grace Jones and a new album
Source: The...
Quando David Bowie perguntou à MTV em 1983 por que eles não tocam música...
David Bowie tinha a questão crucial do racismo no bolso em uma entrevista à MTV há 37 anos. A resposta do entrevistador é surpreendente e aterrorizante
Fonte: Rolling Stone 18.06.2020
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When Punk & Reggae Fans Launched the “Rock Against Racism”
Source: Open Culture, June 17th, 2020
https://youtu.be/DR01x9waNqI
The UK of the late-70s was, in many unfortunate respects, like the UK (and US) of today, with far-right attacks against West Indian and...
The Sisters and The Cult
Source: SistersFan August 11, 2020
Looking at links between the two biggest bands to come out of West Yorkshire in the 1980's, including a detailed look at the time a...