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Punk Rock Feminist Has Revelation While Stripping October 24, 2024

A striking passage from Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, the recently published memoir by musician and political activist Kathleen Hanna offers some insight into why I think serious conservatives ought to shed their resistance to familiarizing...

Landfill Indie Remembered October 15, 2024

People have often thought that pop music peaked in their youth. If you were born in 1950? Beatlemania. If you were born in 1960? Punk rock. If you were born in 1970? Take your pick. For those of us born in the early 1990s, though, this trend came to ...

Inside the Booming Business of Punk Rock's Past August 05, 2024

In November 2008, the New York branch of Christie’s held an auction devoted to punk—a first for the centuries-old purveyor of rare art and relics. The collection featured gems like a copy of the earliest Sex Pistols’ press release and the poster for ...

Funny or DIY May 22, 2024

It’sIt’s happy hour at the Permanent Records Roadhouse, a dive bar and record store in a potholed stretch of east Los Angeles, and Fred Armisen is advising the audience to talk through his set. “Feel free to text, interrupt, go, and come back,” he sa...