There’s a myth of California and, more specifically, Los Angeles, that reaches far across the wire of popular culture—opportunity and prosperity; As-Seen-On-TV glamour and sunshine. The reality, of...
Jon Langford is a founding member of arguably the most contrary of the first crop of English punk bands (their first release Never Been in a Riot, was...
Gentleman Adventurer Pat Fish (a.k.a. the Jazz Butcher) founded the group by that name (also known as The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy and The Jazz Butcher And His Sikkorskis...
The digital edition of Cherie Currie’s Boulevards of Splendor, with 3 bonus songs, including a remake of Runaways’ classic “Queens of Noise,” came out on April 28th on...
Alarm founder Mike Peters has lived in and around his hometown of Rhyl, in Northwest Wales, all his life. Accordingly, all the clubs and stages of that vicinity...
BEFORE the phrase “punk” became well-known, a Beatles and Alice Cooper-inspired black band in Detroit called Death consisting of three brothers was bashing out songs just as rocky...
We Must Not Let The Squares Win: A Conversation with Claudia Woodman, Claudzilla, and Gothsta Claudia Woodman’s drive is rooted in generations of committed counter cultural activism. Her...
Former Question Mark & the Mysterians member Mark Bliesener, who gave the Dead Kennedys their name, has just released a CD called Jurassic Mark in celebration of his...
Janaka Stucky is the founding editor of Black Ocean Books and the author of the newly-published Ascend, Ascend, an act of ritual magick embodied in a work of...
David-Ivar Herman Düne was born in Paris in 1976, to a Moroccan father and a Swedish mother. He lives in San Pedro, California. As a musician, he’s been...