Fifty years ago this weekend (October 5, 1969). the first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus–entitled Whither Canada?–debuted on the the BBC. South Park paid tribute to the anniversary this way.
Read MoreArtist: Northern HazeSong: “Qainna”Album: SingleBand location: Igloolik, Nunavut Why I like it: Heavy rock sung in Inuttitut. Watch: Artist: Ramonda Hammer Song: “Hoax”Album: SingleBand location: Los Angeles, California Why I like it: Gritty with
Read MoreWhen Ryan Reynolds was sent on a worldwide Deadpool 2 promo tour, he was booked on a weird South Korean TV show called Mask King. The premise is simple: Guests sing a song
Read MoreIt’s always nice to get some American notice and approval, innit? This is from Vulture.com. Where else can you go, if not New York? As the early-aughts New York revival faded to static,
Read MoreWhen aliens finally intercept one of the two Voyager spacecraft and decode the audio on their golden phonograph discs, their first and only exposure to Earthly rock’n’roll will be through Chuck Berry. Not
Read MoreIn his book Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock, author James Miller ends his survey of the history of rock’n’roll history in 1977, reasoning that the last thing of evolutionary significance
Read MoreUp until now, the big hue-and-cry about concert audiences is about how everyone seems to want to watch a show through their phones. But there’s a polar opposite side to the digital-devices-at-gigs story.
Read MoreSouth Korea is still reeling from an accident at a concert by girl group 4Minute in which sixteen people were killed when a ventilation grate collapsed during an outdoor show. Now there’s been
Read MoreA year after Deadmau5 helped Nokia launch the Lumia 800 phone (video here), he was back in London to help introduce the new Lumia 920. This happened this week in a square in
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A nice tale from Rockerzine (“The Lifestyle Zine for Mature Hipsters”) written by Katy Dang, a mom from Idaho who makes a pilgrimmage to LA to see a collection of legendary punk bands including Black Flag, the Descendents, the Vandals, X, Social Distortion and more.
I recommend anyone who has every been into music at any point in their life read this. You’re never too old. Ever.
For all of its simplicity, Ill Repute’s music was my high school soundtrack.
Growing up in suburban Los Angeles in the 1980s, we had plenty to rail against, and rail we did at punk rock shows populated by the disenfranchised youth of La-La Land. At the time, we didn’t know the bands we were seeing would come to be considered integral pieces in the history of punk rock, they were just what was available. Serving our needs as pissed-off kids out to cure the ills that beset society, and somehow establish ourselves in it.
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