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Unusual circumstances growing up cemented his musical career. He came of age in the suburbs of New York, where “you eventually meet people who have hip older brothers who listen to punk or prog rock. Anything out of the way or weird just struck my imagination…I would get really into somebody and I would see who that band’s influences were, and sort of work backwards from there...
...Lamont” derives from the son of Redd Fox’s title character on the popular old sitcom “Sanford and Son.” Though Lamont’s website—complete with an intimidating logo of a hellhound surrounded by punk salutes—plays up the band’s tendency towards the dramatic, the boys of Lamont boast real experience; they’ve played seminal venues such as The Middle East, TT the Bear’s, and Manhattan’s CBGB’s Lounge. Though Knipfing freely...
Music being the most abstract of the popular arts, it is hard to know exactly why some bands succeed and others fail. This much we do know: Spoon was once a band teetering toward failure. It was the late '90s, and Spoon was playing competent post-punk in the tradition of Wire and the Pixies. And in the post-punk tradition, the group was widely ignored. After a two-month affiliation with a major label, Spoon had its contract revoked. The band was deemed not only hopelessly uncommercial but also hopelessly uninteresting...
...designers like Reed Krakoff, who trusts that his intuition will enable him to tool leather handbags and accessories in a way that will appeal to millions of consumers. There are rock-'n'-roll stylists who know just how to rip a T shirt to transform a garage-band punk into a pop-culture It girl...
Nary a review of the no-frills garage-rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs appears without gushing mention of lead singer Karen O's louche wardrobe. These getups are neither the flamboyant showstoppers of Madonna nor the fetishistic confections of Britney. The O oeuvre consists of punk livery that would make Siouxsie Sioux proud: slashed prom dresses, hole-riddled T shirts, laddered fishnets, fingerless leather gloves, studded cuffs and Converse sneakers etched with a marker. It's the work of designer Christian Joy, and it's influencing fashion the way only a rock star's wardrobe...