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Meet James Moreland, the only cross-dressing punk-rocker presidential candidate once married to trash diva Courtney Love (or "the punk-rock Rush Limbaugh," as he calls her). He's campaigning under his stage name, Falling James, and his platform is pretty simple. He wants to give the U.S. to the American Indians and move everyone else to Greenland...
...case, some veteran musicians who haven't released albums in half a decade or longer may be poised to benefit from the current backward-gazing climate. These would include dance-pop butt wiggler turned contract-breaking auteur George Michael; gentlemanly crooner and former Commodore Lionel Richie, and punk poet Patti Smith. The trio have been lying low for reasons ranging from contract disputes (Michael) to personal problems (Richie went through a divorce in his time off, and his father passed away; during Smith's hiatus, her husband died). Normally, long-term hibernation isn't healthy for pop musicians...
...someone with a reputation as a wordsmith, as one of the founders of punk, as a veteran artist who has had eight years to think about what she wanted to say, Smith should have been able to come up with something better than a cartoony, colonial-era take on cannibalism as a metaphor for issues of survival. Listening to such painfully out-of-touch music from Smith, as well as these other pop standouts from the past, is enough to cure the worst case of nostalgia...
...Billy and in part to other board members. He will admit to wanting to reach out more to the inner city ("We're losing in this country to Islam") and to make the crusades' musical component less churchy and more accessible. (The Quick and the Dead, a Christian punk band, has played at one of his crusades, singing: "I'll dress like a woman. Bare my butt. But sometimes I wish I was me.") But his general approach, he says, is "You don't tinker with it if it ain't broke." He is actually a somewhat limited man, lacking...
...Newt Gingrich a punk-rock fan, particularly of Theme Song, a tune by the band Too Much Joy? As the story goes, Gingrich heard the single played among G.O.P. staff members, then last month allegedly sent fan letters to the irreverent musicians (once tried and acquitted of obscenity charges), raving that they "had captured the entire essence of our 1994 campaign in a single line: 'To create, you must destroy.'" The band's promoters used the letters to help publicize its new album. Last week Gingrich's office claimed the letters were a hoax, despite being on the Speaker...