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“You will never buy another record.” Awesome ROIR label ad from… many years back, advertising fine punk & postpunk music on cassette. fuk yeh.

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Beastie Boys and Billy Idol doing the Vulcan thing. Back in the day, yo. Via dirtypreston

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My latest post on laughingsquid is on the Kickstarter for Veteran Rocker Bob Mould’s 2011 See A Little Light Concert DVD. Amongst Mould’s impressive career of making great music, much of which is important to me, it’s still his first band, the legendary hardcore punk innovators Hüsker Dü that are most essential and enduring…. even in the presence of Joan Rivers’ 1987 hair…

I miss Kurt Cobain just a little less knowing Green was his fave R.E.M album. What, never heard Fables, dead guy? #opinionated. Other than that and the bizarre selection of “Combat Rock” to represent The Clash (I guess he is a hits guy after all), there’s some good shit on this list: Kurt Cobain’s Top 50 Album List via Laughing Squid. Tho again on Bowie, I differ strongly: MWSTW? Really? Ziggy or Hunky Dory should probably win—though my tastes run more to Low or Lodger, personally. At least he didn’t say “Let’s Dance”.

FWIW, for R.E.M.’s best I’m willing to discuss anything from “Life’s Rich Pageant” back, maybe even “Document”. But as Pitchfork says from here on they were on their way to “making their own brand of arena rock”. And that “product” is inherently less important, IMNSHO.

Keep in mind I grew up in the south and heard these guys and the larger scene that Mitch Easter & Don Dixon were producing in a bit of detail fairly early on. Also I’m a card-carrying ex-College Radio MD, so, yeah, opinionated.

Sorry to get all High Fidelity on you there for a sec. If it turned you on, check out my Can Haz DJ stuff. If not, I welcome you back to arts n’ internets n’ stuff.

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Pussy Riot was convicted of hooliganism in Russia today. They have been sentenced to two years in prison. Here’s a selection of Maria Alyokhina’s closing statement, in which she discusses poetry (via n+1):

I would like to point out that very similar methods were used during the trial of the poet [Joseph] Brodsky. His poems were defined as “so-called” poems; the witnesses for the prosecution hadn’t actually read them—just as a number of the witnesses in our case didn’t see the performance itself and only watched the clip online. Our apologies, it seems, are also being defined by the collective prosecuting body as “so-called” apologies. Even though this is offensive. And I am overwhelmed with moral injury and psychological trauma. Because our apologies were sincere. I am sorry that so many words have been uttered and you all still haven’t understood this. Or it is calculated deviousness when you talk about our apologies as insincere. I don’t know what you still need to hear from us. But for me this trial is a “so-called” trial. And I am not afraid of you. I am not afraid of falsehood and fictitiousness, of sloppily disguised deception, in the verdict of the so-called court.

When The Clash met Andy Warhol. via aconversationoncool

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Richard Hell. Badass. And kind of a mess. But a hero of mine nonetheless. Though by the time I met him… he didn’t impress. via a-rebel-without-applause

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Jon Stewart in a Dead Kennedys’ mosh pit in (my home town) Richmond, VA when he was a student at William & Mary in the 1982 (via jonahray):

This makes me very happy.

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Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.

Photo by Irish Willis Peele.

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Awesome Misfits tattoo(s)! (Misfoots? Misfeets?) via fuckyeahtattoos:

My feet aren’t really together all that well, but still. This is a tattoo that I have wanted since I was about 13. I’ve loved the Misfits for as long as I can remember, and I used to get made fun of for dressing weird and listening to loud music. I had these Draven slip ons that looked just like this tattoo, only they glowed. I’m now 19 years old, and I still wear these shoes from 6th grade, with holes in the soles and tears in the fabric. I think those shoes represent my personality, and so does this tattoo. Inked my Michael Hopkins, Revenge Tattoo, Gloversville NY (still have to go back for my touch up).

Joey Ramone and a cat. There are at least 3 pix out of there of Joey & cats. And that’s all the awesome that I have in my pockets right now.

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“1990 Sonic Youth set list”, I saw them at least once, maybe twice on that tour… via heroinkilledtherockstar

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Recommended: The entire 90 minute documentary on The Minutemen “We Jam Econo” is now streaming on YouTube. via 23minutesoverbrussels

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