Word: punkness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last three quarters is mildly disturbing, but start the song over and everything’s alright again. Grade: B Kanye West – “Stronger” Even though the song it samples is only three years old; even though the idea of sampling Daft Punk should not have survived “Touch It”; even though the execrable Mark Ronson talks all over the only mp3 of it I can find; I still enjoy this song. Kanye’s on some mid-1970s David Bowie shit–he doesn?...
...Broadly—punk, post punk, classic rock, jazz, acid jazz, house, drum and bass, the dulcet sounds of my roommate pleasuring his girlfriend...
...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...
...onstage seizures as if this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer Underground" during last summer's Israeli air raids...
...happy to talk about life after CBGB, the downtown Manhattan club that some say turned punk into a movement and a lifestyle, and helped make names of the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith and Television. After the club closed following a much-publicized dispute between him and his landlord, Kristal planned to open another venue, although discussions were on hiatus. Las Vegas and Boston were possibilities, he said, but much still rested on the bottom line. "All I have to do is get a little more money," he said. "Everything takes a lot of money...