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Downtown Houston's Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark, like a plethora of other such sites across the globe, is a gripping locale that merges edge-culture sports and...
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Peter Case wanders the highways of this newfangled America like an authentic folk-rebel who has never lost his true grit. He was a teenage beatnik who showered Buffalo, N.Y.,...
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Peter Case wanders the highways of this newfangled America like an authentic folk-rebel who has never lost his true grit. He was a teenage beatnik who showered Buffalo, New...
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Like fellow Southern California punk stalwarts Agent Orange and Social Distortion, TSOL remain resilient and restless, bulldozing through ever-changing pop trends with...
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Like fellow Southern California punk stalwarts Agent Orange and Social Distortion, TSOL remains resilient and restless, bulldozing through ever-changing pop trends with...
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Although the Anarchitex have roamed the post-punk musical landscape of Houston for nearly three decades, the band's cantankerous barrage of noise remains far under the radar....
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Still limber and forceful after three decades of pummeling and partying, Agent Orange is the über-surf-punk trio, bar none. "Bloodstains" might have single-handedly been...
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If Orange County was suburban hell in the early 1980s, then Agent Orange, Social Distortion and the unruly Adolescents were its tour guides. Truly the offspring of punk...
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Twin ambassadors of punk-tinged rock and roll history, Cheetah Chrome and Sylvain Sylvain intertwine rootsy soul, finger-lickin' agility and mucho attitude in their new...
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The madman behind Flat Duo Jets, Dexter Romweber is back with
Ruins of Berlin (Bloodshot), an amalgam of voodoo muzak and
croony cosmopolitan country — imagine Marty...
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The Vibrators are year-zero godfathers of singalong punk who shook the world in ten days; that's how long it took to record their iconic, hook-filled 1977 debut Pure Mania....
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Just as gays and lesbians from Wayne County to the Screamers and Hüsker Dü shaped the socially confrontational music of the "Blank Generation," Texas punk stalwarts...
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They might be Japanese-cum-New Yorkers, but Peelander-Z's brand of "action comic" punk feels like an intergalactic anthem for fun fun fun until daddy throws the joystick away....
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Hispanics have helped shape punk rock since the Zeros and the Bags fomented a brown shade of musical resistance in the late 1970s. Years earlier, though, garage rockers paved...
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With East L.A. (working-class Whittier) disco-punk fever, these lads crack dance-floor doldrums with clanging cowbell, bass licks that make hips flicker, fidgety syncopated...
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TSOL singer Jack Grisham is the evil doppelganger of suave Chris Isaak. Both are known for surfing and the accompanying swagger, brawn and good looks. Both have a legacy of...
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This bare-bones trio, featuring rambunctious sisters Margaret Doll Rod on ramblin' guitar and Christina Doll Rod on a skeletal upright drum kit, jettisoned the idea of an...
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By David Ensminger and Lonnie Locascio
Published:
May 30, 2002
Who could forget Peter Murphy writhing and undulating like a snake in The Hunger, David Bowie's cult film from the early 1980s? As the "king of goth," the former Bauhaus front...
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Every songwriter who's ever penned a tune has written a heartbreak song, but few have managed to chronicle heartbreak properly, and fewer still have performed songs that give...
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Bald as a cue ball and with more hooks than a convention of Long John Silver impersonators, Deke Dickerson bounces deftly between jump blues, western swing, surf rock and...
