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The best punk albums of 1984 were leaner, meaner and so much weirder
The Sex Pistols may have cheerfully sang “No future for you” back in 1977. But in the ’80s, an entire generation lived in fear that America and Russia would lob nuclear warheads at each other, making for a really MAD time. It’s only fitting that as American politics got more conservative, the underground would dig […]
These 14 punk albums of 1984 made the year heavier and meaner
First, some background about the motives of punk albums of 1984. Jello Biafra, in the Dead Kennedys‘ masterly 1979 debut single “California Über Alles,” predicted 1984 as the year presidential hopeful Jerry Brown‘s “suede/denim secret police” would be “knock-knock(ing) at your front door” to haul “your uncool niece” to a reeducation camp because “Zen fascists […]
Help punk-rock lifers OFF! finish their debut film—and their singer’s watermelon habit
Keith Morris is far more cooler than you, this writer and most of our friends. And really, he misplaced that last rat’s ass he could give. That’s because the only thing the former frontman for American punk icons Black Flag and Circle Jerks is really stoked for is the completion of Watermelon, the indie-film foray […]
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