The News Review:
- Going With the Flow
- Burqas and fries
- Finding her faith her own way
- New coffee-table books for music lovers
Going With the Flow
New York Times United States
On songs like “No Girl” and “Feeling Sorry” they’ve taken punk back to garage-rock again; they’ve figured out how to write a boiled-down riff and a few verses about relationships as if they’re making it up on the spot. Their record has poor sound quality bad graphics and crooked typesetting and it’s nearly perfect.
Burqas and fries
Sydney Morning Herald Australia
Hiba slips out of the white T-shirt with black letters that read”Homophobia Is Gay” which she wore to Kempner High School whereshe is a junior. It’s one of a collection of slogans the17-year-old has on T-shirts unbeknown to her parents Muslimimmigrants from Pakistan. There are other aspects of Hiba’s life she thinks they might notapprove of either like the Muslim punk music she listens to withlyrics such as “suicide bomb the GAP” or “Rumi [a 13th-centuryPersian poet and theologian] was a homo. ” Or the novel aboutrebellious Muslim teenagers in New York. It opens with: “Muhammadwas a punk rocker he tore everything down. ” This much Hiba knows:she is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does thatmean? It is a question that pesters her like the other questionsshe is afraid to ask her parents: can she still be a good Muslimeven though she does not dress in hijab or pray five times a day?Is going to the prom sinful? Is punk?In a real-life scenario reminiscent of the hit 1999 British filmEast Is East about a Pakistani fish-and-chip shop owner whoexpects his rebellious family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslimways even though they were born and brought up in Britain Hibaloves Allah but wonders whether it is OK to question customs.
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Finding her faith her own way
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette IN
Siddiqui slips out of the white T-shirt with black letters that read “HOMOPHOBIA IS GAY” which she wore to Kempner High School where she is a junior. It’s one of a collection of slogans the 17-year-old has silk-screened on T-shirts unbeknownst to her parents both Muslim immigrants from Pakistan. There are other aspects of Siddiqui’s life lately she thinks they might not approve of either like the Muslim punk music she has been listening to with lyrics such as “suicide bomb the GAP” or “Rumi was a homo. ” Or the novel she bought online about rebellious Muslim teenagers in New York. It opens with: “Muhammad was a punk rocker he tore everything down. Muhammad was a punk rocker and he rocked that town. ”This much Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America.
New coffee-table books for music lovers
Staten Island Advance – SILive.com NY
note: there relationship was just a rumor at this point) was in the back seat as well — so I took that shot with one frame. BRIAN COGAN ON GROWING UP PUNK ON STATEN ISLAND:High school: When I was growing up at Farrell we thought we were outsiders. Most people were into generic dance music or late-period disco that sort of thing. Punk really provided a sense of solidarity for me and my friends. We had something that was ours that wasn’t being sold and marketed. His music: I’m still in a local punk band called In Crowd. Eventually I’m going to put out a compilation of our 7-inch singles called “Three Decades of Futility.