SLASH RECORDS, OR LET’S HAVE A WAR
Slash, the indispensable fanzine that charted the Los Angeles punk scene (1977-80), gave birth to a record label...
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THE MEKONS: STILL THRIVING ON LOW EXPECTATIONS
The punk-era holdouts The Mekons, originally from the UK but now scattered worldwide, were set to reunite to...
ROOM FOR JELLO: AN ORAL HISTORY OF FAULTY PRODUCTS RECORDS
Faulty Products was a small record label and distribution company with an outsized influence at a crucial time...
SEARCH & DESTROY: UNDERGROUND ART AND PUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO
Search & Destroy, a visually arresting San Francisco punk zine, began publishing in 1976, and quickly set a...
LISA FANCHER: STEERING PUNK’S FINAL FRONTIER IN LA
Often overlooked by punk history’s gatekeepers, Lisa Fancher’s venerable Frontier Records label is celebrating 40 years of important...
DAVE FAULKNER WAS A VICTIM BEFORE HE WAS A HOODOO GURU
Punk from Down Under too often gets short shrift in chronicles from the 1970s. One of the punkest...
FACE IT: DEBBIE HARRY HAS HAD A HAPPY AND LUCKY LIFE
Elizabeth Hand, a much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, offers an appraisal of Debbie Harry’s new memoir and discovers that...
PANYC ATTACK: CAMILLA SALY’S LIVING HISTORY OF NYC PUNK
Camilla Saly turned her wild stories of a misspent youth in punk bars, and their eventual boxes of...
THE JOY OF DESOLATION: TAKING PUNK ROCK TO THE DESERT
Putting on punk shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s became near to impossible with the lack...
STAG: THE EARLIEST, DIRTIEST ROOTS OF PORNOGRAPHIC FILM
Illegally made and exhibited, featuring hardcore sex images and acts, stag films were vital stepping stones toward the...
MANCHESTER’S UNITED: BUZZCOCKS’ STEVE DIGGLE SPEAKS HIS MIND
The brainy and witty Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle opens up about the origins of punk in Manchester, the...
VIVIEN GOLDMAN AND REVENGE OF THE SHE-PUNKS
From her pre-punk perch as a record company publicist and journalist in London, Vivien Goldman immersed herself in...
MU TUNC: THE DIRECTOR OF TURKEY’S FIRST PUNK MOVIE. OR, THE FALL OF EASTERN CIVILIZATION
Filmmaker Mu Tunc describes his film, Arada, as “Liquid Sky meets The Decline of Western Civilization,” which, of...
PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...