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...recent years, many underground rock legends have reunited for a shot at their former glory. Boston post-punk progenitors Mission of Burma are working on their second new album after a hiatus since the mid-’80s. Post-hardcore acts from Slint to Braid have reappeared for tours, only to fade back into legend. Even the Pixies are rumored to be in the studio again. These moves invariably beg the question of motive: music, money, or something entirely different? For Dinosaur Jr., the issue is much more complicated; few bands have as tumultuous a history. The band...
...have these 15-year-old punk rockers in London who tattoo the No Sweat brand on the back of their necks, and we’ve got 50-year-old union officials in Arkansas,” he said. “Our market is that and everything in between. It’s a big tent...
...what some may see as the ultimate act of punk heresy, England's legendary Sex Pistols have been tapped for induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. Others, of course, might argue that it completes what the Pistols' estranged ex-manager-creator Malcolm McLaren dubbed the "Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle"-he maintains that the iconoclastic band he devised from his King's Road boutique was really just an elaborate prank on the music industry. Indeed, there is more than a measure of irony in the Pistols' being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they...
...large: Almost 27 years after the death of troubled bass player Sid Vicious (initially recruited to replace songwriter Matlock, allegedly booted for being a fan of the Beatles), the image of the lanky youth notorious for his cartoonish depravity, drug-abuse and violence, which became the sartorial prototype for punk rock, still dwarfs the band's actual accomplishments...
...venomous social commentary, Never Mind The Bollocks is rightly hailed as a classic that helped shake rock'n'roll out of its shaggy doldrums, re-inserting a palpable whiff of danger and defiance into an art-form grown shallow and pompous. Never mind the narrow mores of tongue-clicking punk rock purists-the Sex Pistols have more than earned their place in the Hall of Fame. Respect...