Musical Anarchy
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Topic: Punk Rock
Sort Desciption: dedicated to punk rock. If MRR are vegans,. then rival magazine Punk Planet ... might say diluted) definition of punk rock. That’s why in Punk Planet’s new ...
Content Inside: Ministry of Truth, The Front, Atrocity Exhibition, Insolents, Diatribe, and nine other local bands played a show called the “Anarchy Picnic” outside on the grass at Mission Bay in the summer of 1985. The glistening bay water, the splendor of fanned- mohawks, spiked dog collars, and painted leather jackets—until the cops came to break it up. I think it’s fair to say that 99 percent of the punkers came to slam dance and party and paid no attention to the anarchist litera- ture being handed out by the sponsors of the picnic. Since it was on the grass, kids were doing these crazy leaps into the dog pile. All this observed by a pasty-faced, skinny guy, all dressed in black, hovering over a table full of pamphlets. Anarchists haven’t been able to use punk rock to excite kids about their manifestos, at least not with the success that the Nazi-right had using the oi sound to enlist skinheads. Punk fans have never cared about ideology. Yet, at the same time, punk bands, especially lyricists, have been and remain progressive thinkers. Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll is probably the best known and longest running magazine dedicated to punk rock. If MRR are vegans, then rival magazine Punk Planet are more vegetarians. They have a broader (MRR might say diluted) definition of punk rock. That’s why in Punk Planet’s new book, We Owe You Nothing, they mix interviews with punk’s founding fathers (Ian MacKaye, Greg W E O WE Y OU N OTHING : P UNK P LANET , THE C OLLECTED I NTERVIEWS Edited by Daniel Sinker Akashic Books PO Box 1456, New York, NY 10009 346 pages; paper, $16.95 Jimmy Jazz Musical Anarchy From ABR, September/October 2001 Volume 22, Issue 6 Ginn, Jello Biafra, Thurston Moore) with artists like Chumbawamba and Sleater- Kinney, who have transcended punk, and hardcore purists like Duncan Barlow, who actually resigned from the punk-rock scene because he didn’t like the direction in which the movement was going. We Owe You Nothing is an economics tex ...
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