Word: punkness
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...Cobain's band was in alt-rock's rise to prominence, but "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is a lesson in the impossibility of reducing the revolution to an individual (or a trio). Its story goes like this: in the early `80s, a bunch of kids in unknown punk bands, like L.A.'s Black Flag, figured out that "calling up a pressing plant and getting their own record manufactured wasn't the mysterious, exclusive privilege of the giant record companies on the coasts." Black Flag's guitarist and co-founder, Gregg Ginn, used the business acumen he picked...
...minutes away by cab is Wudaokou, at the intersection of Wang Zhuang Street and Cheng Fu Road. Chock-full of Korean restaurants, the area is also long on live music. While rock 'n' roll still rules the scene, Beijing's punks are trying to recreate the 1977 they never knew, with sweaty, muscled guitarists screaming unintelligible, over-amplified lyrics to an equally sweaty, pogo-ing audience. For hard rock at one of the city's most active venues, try Get Lucky, which has concerts every weekend featuring some of the Beijing underground's best and brashest. To find...
...outer band of humor that gets laughs from discomfort. Like listening to a gay man perform oral sex on a woman for 'N Sync tickets. Or playing the silent game, where they book bad guests and let them wallow in dead air. They call it cringe radio, at once punk and frat, like Blink-182 or Fred Durst. It's The Man Show without all that annoying polish. The program has a real garage feeling, with staff members walking in and out of the studio, twisting knobs, grabbing papers. There is no separate producer's booth: Opie twiddles...
...just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...
Sleater-Kinney, composed of Tucker, 28, guitarist-singer Carrie Brownstein, 26, and drummer-singer Janet Weiss, 35, is a punk band because, among other reasons, a sense of exclusion and marginalization is part of what drives its music. That sense is a source of the vehemence in the trio's sound, which--on albums released on the small Pacific Northwest labels Chainsaw and Kill Rock Stars--has become at once bigger and more agile, harsher and more unpredictable, since the band formed in 1994 in Olympia, Wash. The world is organized so as not to have to listen to songs...