Word: punkness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Their Own,” but they’ve all already fallen and dried. When Winehouse opts for smooth, tasteful jazz as in her sixth track, “Love Is A Losing Game,” she sounds more like Nancy Wilson than a rebel-punk Mary J. Blige. If she’s willing to go balls-to-the-walls tasteless in her lyrics, why not take it all the way and do something really crazy...
Okay, buzzing disco-funk-punk-electro-warehouse children, prep for white irony all topped off in sweated-out curls, because “Myth Takes,” the latest from !!!, has landed. “Myth Takes” aspires to present !!! in all its diverse dance-inducing glory, but if the album proves anything, it’s the difficulty of successfully appropriating multiple influences to make something that both works and makes bodies work. From their name alone, !!! aspire to be all unexpected fun—or cultural pirates. The symbol ! is used to denote a mouth...
...Stooges’ first release in 30-odd years, “The Weirdness,” lives up to its name—it’s a little weird. Once known as the forerunners of punk, the band seems—on first listen—to have absorbed the musical styles of just about every trend-setting artist of the last two decades. Filled with fast beats and poppy guitar melodies, “The Weirdness,” while maintaining the key elements of the band’s sound, has a distinctly modern feel...
...winner, a show that does justice to its elegant new quarters and tickles the imagination as well. The exhibition, open until May 7, features that rarest of commodities, a Luxembourg-born artist: Michel Majerus, who in an intense, tragically shortened career fused Pop, Minimalism and other genres with a punk sense of fun. Majerus was more a painter than a video or installation artist, so most of the 250 works in the show are canvases - big ones, some the size of billboards, all throbbing with color, text and images purloined from comic books and advertising, which he often subtly subverts...
...record label difficulties—not to mention a grand parting of ways—The Ataris have finally re-emerged with “Welcome the Night,” their sixth studio release. However, this phoenix lacks the fire to make it the glorious rebirth the pop-punk-cum-alternative band had planned for its first album since 2003. Despite a strong effort by the recently resuscitated group (lead singer Kristopher Roe is the only original member remaining), you may be left wondering what’s become of The Ataris’ catchy, youthful sound. With this...