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...surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing New York Air tells the folks from Des Moines about. As the camera pans across the city streets slicked down a la Miami Vice...
...ruckus over rock's excesses flares on historical cue: Elvis' pelvis in the '50s; Beatles and drugs, sex and Stones in the '60s; punk anarchy in the '70s. Those controversies were just as intense and at times even more widespread. Presley shook up the whole country; the Sex Pistols played yet another funeral march for the British Empire. Things simmered down with time, which is probably what is most needed now. Even liberals like New York Governor Mario Cuomo have voiced concern about explicit lyrics. Danny Goldberg, president of Gold Mountain Records, has organized his own group to counter...
...with "Old Ways," a twangy Nashville album that follows on the heels of 1983's "Everybody's Rockin," an upbeat if self-conscious pseudo-fifties revival; 1982's "Trans," the sonic and artistic equivalent of being flushed down a mainframe computer; and "Re-Ac-Tor" (1981), a gritty, post-punk effort. No, Young is certainly not doing what he did last year, or the year before, or even the year before that...
...series featuring Mel Gibson as the ever-infuriated Max, pursuing his private vendetta against the forces of evil in the Australian outback. It is the second film in the series that portrays the post-apocalyptic world. Evil, like everything else, has needed time to recover. In The Road Warrior punk-styled roadsters with homicidal tendencies had organized into tribes. In Beyond Thunderdome, evil graduates to cities...
...last stand for strictly hardcore punk is Chet's (across the street from the Boston Garden). It spotlights mainly local bands. Good visiting New York and L.A. bands usually hit. The Rat (528 Commonwealth Ave.) in Kenmore Square (on the Green Line...