The News Review:
- Blowout blow-by-blow
- St. Patty’s Day punks
- Punk scene to mainstream
- NLINE NLY: Sunday punk at the Blackwater
- UTD Cinematheque – Punks Not Dead
Blowout blow-by-blow
Detroit Free Press
It’s propulsive music. I don’t usually go in for punk music per se aggressive music does not ordinarily appeal to me. But it would be wrong to call Child Bite aggressive you could make that mistake listening to them but it’s not that at all. It’s not aggressive. There’s a horn player for one thing it’s almost like singer Shawn (Knight) is a deranged cheerleader.
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St. Patty’s Day punks
In-Forum
The list of bands who?ve married Celtic folk tunes with the passion of punk is long. This makes sense to Barr. ?I?ve always said that folk music was kind of the first punk music ? music by the people for the people for the causes of the people. Punk and folk have more in common than they don?t? he says. ?The values and mindset behind both are definitely related. But it all goes back to The Pogues right?Yes it does says Barr whose band has often collaborated with members of the seminal Irish rock act.
Punk scene to mainstream
GW Hatchet (subscription)
that resulted in a mob of drunk Kentuckians trying to kill me” Mojica said about a gig where he was misidentified as the perpetrator of a crime. After being punched in the face he barricaded himself in the band’s tour bus using one hand to hold his bleeding nose and the other to hold instruments as weapons. In between singing for The Fighters and another punk band with a bigger focus on reggae funk music The Eclectics Mojica started a music label Rocco Records and opened a coffee house called Jinx in Chicago in 1997. “My café was a decidedly punk-rock café” he said. “Most members of the staff were in bands. We played our music obnoxiously loud and chased away anyone with a computer or a book of poetry. It didn’t’ turn out to be a very good business model.
NLINE NLY: Sunday punk at the Blackwater
Stockton Record
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UTD Cinematheque – Punks Not Dead
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
Punk’s Not Dead is more than just a tribute documentary. It takes you on an era-by-era journey that puts punk rock’s non-conformist reputation under the knife. fficially sanctioned by the bands in the film who donated personal photos fliers and home videos Punk’s Not Dead follows the evolution of punk music from its anarchic roots to its use as a corporate marketing tool and acceptance into popular culture to its reinvention in today’s underground scene. The Director of Punks Not Dead – Susan Dynner – will be in attendance at the screening for a Q&A session following the film. Director Susan Dynner’s first-hand experience of Washington DC’s punk scene in the Eighties and her continued love of punk music spurred the making of this self-financed independent documentary true to the D.