Word: punkness
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...Roxy last Saturday night. Coming off their best-selling album Zoot Suit Riot and the hit single of the same name, 1998 has been a good year for the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Seattle-based band that mixes a swing-oriented style with genres such as ska and punk to create their own unique sound...
...entire set, singing all the while. Amidst their big swing hits--the current single "Brown Derby Jump," as well as "Ding Dong," "Daddy of the D-Car Line" and "When I Change Your Mind"--the Daddies interspersed their earlier work, often songs that were more ska or even punk than swing...
...only one hit--"Egyptian Reggae," an instrumental dance number that scraped the bottom of the charts in Europe about 22 years ago. Richman's recording career, among the most varied in rock, is what ought to be garnering all the attention; his first songs were highly influential proto-punk, but he has since refused to play any song that might injure the ears of infants. So it was a little odd to find him stuck in the middle of the intermittently amusing spectacle of immaturity that was Mary...
...modern rock & roll." That sound and feeling have often led to Richman being labeled a "protopunk," and it is true that he played passionate minimalist rock in a time otherwise filled mostly with orchestral, pretentious crap and inoffensive James Taylor wimpery. Richman's influence is all over '77 punk, as you know if you've ever heard the Sex Pistols' massacre of "Roadrunner." And a cover of "Pablo Picasso" appeared in Alex Cox's brilliant movie Repo...
...Thursday night at Kyle's House, and some ghostly creep with a blue face and wild white hair has come between a clan v.p. and a cute blond. The PuNK pOsSe group is hanging out on South Park Avenue; the No Limit guys are at Cartman's House. A naked Def Squad girl cruises Avatar Ranch. An anonymous admirer makes flowers bloom at the feet of Pink Glove in Wendy's Backyard. Oh, and the Mona Lisa head in the blinking, multicolored Apple baseball cap who's floating from room to room taking this all in? That would...