No wave

Tracing the nihilist style of the No Wave doyenne

Because punk's not dead, it's just not as good as it used to be.

John Lurie is well known for a number of things; from fusing avant garde jazz and No Wave music with the Lounge LIzards in late 70s New York to his acting work in the films of Jim Jarmusch (not to mention his many scoring credits.) Though dogged by his fair share of bad luck—including being struck with chronic Lyme disease, and his travails with alleged stalker John Perry (which we have covered previously on Dangerous Minds)—Lurie has always managed to retain his impeccable sense of cool…

ＳＯＬＤ MICHAEL DEMPSEY SNIFFIN GLUE: THE BIBLE (1978) Legendary Fanzine founded by Mark Perry in July 1976, Sniffin ‘Glue is one of the pioneers of Punk culture. In this book are reproduced the 10 issues of the fanzine with their cover. An essential book to understand the punk culture and the London scene between the key dates of the birth of punk, 1976/1977. Sniffin’Glue which originally had a print run of 50 copies, was a huge success, so much so that its circulation climbed to 15,000…

Includes 13 provocative short films by underground filmmaker Richard Kern. Films featured: Death Valley 69, the irght Side of My Brain, You KIlled Me First, the Bitches, the Sewing Circle, X Is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, the Evil Cameraman. FEatures music by Sonic Youth, Bewitches, Black Snake, the Butt-Hole Surfers and others. For mature audiences only. Running time: 180 minutes.

NSFW. If Larry Flynt and the Vienna Aktionists got together and published a punk zine in the late ‘70s, it would have looked a lot like NO MAG.

It was three days from Austin, Texas, to Olympia, Washington, by Greyhound, and what Sean McManus remembered best about the journey, which he embarked upon with his roommate in July 1994, is the seizures. “This one guy on the bus, he didn’t tell anyone he was epileptic, and then he started having them every hour,” McMa

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