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...single. It debuted last week at No. 22 on Oricon's weekly Top 30 singles list. The lyrics seem ideally suited for Japan's trendy club scene: "We will destroy houses!/We will destroy bridges!/We will destroy buildings!/To the East! To the West!" A corporate example of postpunk nihilism? No, Nihon Break Kogyo is a demolition company...
...gets two or three successful albums in a row is harder to find. No sooner do you figure out who Blink-182 is, than Blink-183 takes its place. And music is more splintered into niche markets and tribal followings. It can be tricky to navigate the byways of postpunk and trip-hop, ambient techno and speed metal. But remember, there was a time when you had no trouble telling the difference between surf music and Merseybeat...
...peak on "Saturday's Cool," which may be the most excruciatingly self-concious "underground rock" song I've ever heard: the breaks in between the verses are note-for-note or word-for-word quotes from the songs Eggs listened to ten years ago, meaning not cool obscure postpunk records but Blue Oyster Cult's "Burn Out the Day" and the Who's "Baba O'Riley." And all those quotes are integrated into a genuinely moving song, another one of Beaujon's studies in extended teenage self-hatred: it's hard to remember how the lyrics go, because they...
...group, headed by singer Vika Vradij, who was recently chosen as "Miss Rock of Europe--92" is known for "progressive" "postpunk" politically charged songs and interpretations s of Ukrainan folk music...
...Night on Earth splits its time five ways: taxi drivers pick up fares in Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, Helsinki. A little biography, a vagrant communion through the rearview mirror, then on to the next town. If Jarmusch keeps at it, he will become the first postpunk director of 30-second commercials...