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...American Hardcore,” a movie which credits hardcore music for single-handedly saving rock and roll, and winning the Cold War to boot (all those anti-Reagan moshes really spurred the Gipper on to greatness). Bear in mind that Rachman started his own “punk rock film festival” called Slamdance, which he abandoned as soon as he could finagle “Hardcore” into Sundance. [CORRECTION APPENDED. See below...
...wall fanatic. The Minutemen—subjects of their own excellent documentary “We Jam Econo”—are the only band whose importance equals their portrayal in “American Hardcore,” but their folksy, jazzy punk sounds could hardly be called “hardcore” in the first place...
...Daniel Striped Tiger show at WHRB on Oct. 20 for proof. While the historic importance of 1980s hardcore to underground music is profound, the suggestion that the “Golden Days” are gone and that hardcore music will never be the same is characteristic of the punk rock orthodoxy’s attitude that is killing the scene today...
This past week, musicians and volunteers from all over New England have been hard at work on the N.E.S.T. festival (the North East Sticks Together). With over 35 events at venues all over Boston, including tomorrow’s Punk Rock Flea Market at Mass Art, a scene favorite since 2002 which features “some of the best DIY crafts, used records, vegan snacks, and random junk in Boston.” For more information, see www.nest2006.com...
...lonely child’s melancholic yearning. The movie is, above all, a testament to incongruity and ambivalence: much as Marie is at once dangerously unrestrained and wholly stifled, Coppola herself is simultaneously attentive to historic detail and not unpleasantly anachronistic in her revisionism. Seamlessly integrating 80s post-punk in the most sublime of ways, there’s something undeniably lovely in her resuscitation of a dusty historical narrative, resisting stuffy reconstruction in favor of dreamily imaginative detail. Though ostensibly starring Jason Schwartzman in a delightfully dead-pan turn as the blundering Louis XVI, and the luminous, ethereal...