THE DISCO SUN IT SHINES SO BRIGHT Turbonegro, ‘Denim Demon’ When talking about classics and masterpieces, everybody talks about the ‘White Album’, but not all talk about Turbonegro‘s Ass Cobra. That’s not right. Let’s get one thing straight right from the beginning: Ass Cobra is no little or unknown record. When we talk about Turbonegro, …
Gabi Delgado has passed away a few hours after publishing this interview. He meant the world to me, and he will be terribly missed by his fans. Things indeed can come to a certain end. Gabi Delgado, March 2020 For me, you are without a question the most influental German band. Many people would name …
With 15, I was living in a small working-class town in the north of Sweden. I was a metal-head back then and was just starting to approach hardcore and punk, I only had a very vague idea of either. In my area there weren’t any punks, nothing happened in Sweden in that regard, there were …
Sal Canzonieri of Electric Frankenstein talks about influences and the music scene, Rat Fink & Monster Art, the pioneering days of the internet & MP3 and what it meant to run one of the first 45 websites overall, how the music industry tried to suppress the new rock’n’roll scene, and why he is a well-known …
Not many albums dare to open with a track so super-charged with raw “spunk” like “Blind Promise” (sonically speaking). It’s big and loud and beautiful. Wait… we can do better than that lame description- dismissing the album as merely “loud” or “beautiful” would be to miss its essence of depth and power. So let us try …
Banned in D.C. with a thousand more places to go. Gonna swim across the Atlantic, cause that’s the only place I can go.You, you can’t hurt me, why I’m banned in D.C. Bad Brains, Banned in D.C. People say that the best about the Bad Brains is the fact that they were all black and still …
Sonic Youth, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Franz Ferdinand, REM, Minutemen, Elastica, Black Flag, Johnny Marr, the Feelies, Guided by Voices, Ladytron, Minor Threat, Fischerspooner, Bloc Party, Low, Ministry, and almost everyone on the planet with a set of ears who was ever in a band, has been influenced by them. Yet, they remain unknown …
The greatest of all the punk rock bands, The Clash. They had everything, the music, the look and most importantly the right attitude and right on politics.The band comprised Joe Strummer on vocals and guitar, Mick Jones on lead guitar, Paul Simenon on bass and Topper Headon on drums. Topper was a very versatile drummer. …
Few truly embodied the punk ethos like Richard Lester Meyers did. A high school dropout, he and another friend, Tom Miller, moved to a New York City in the early stages of the punk explosion due to happen in the next couple of years, in pursuit of his passion as a poet. Adopting new names …
