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Oh Death, Up Yours! (R.I.P. Poly Styrene)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ari Up, Peter Christopherson, Poly Styrene, punk, X-Ray Spex on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It’s been rough recently for the punks: we lost Ari Up last October, and now comes the very sad news that Poly Styrene passed away yesterday. At least we still have the music. In memory of Ms. PS, I’ve assembled videos for the entirety of X-Ray Spex’s only but brilliant album, Germ Free Adolescents (1978).

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What’s So New about New Wave?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Blondie, Caroline Coon, Devo, Duran Duran, François Truffaut, garage rock, Gary Numan, glam, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Malcolm McLaren, Minimalism, Mod, New New Wave, New Wave Coffee, Post-Punk Revival, power pop, punk, Sex Pistols, synthrock, Talking Heads, Television, The B-52's, The Boomtown Rats, The Human League, The Nouvelle Vague, The Only Ones, The Pretenders, The Stranglers on December 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming), but here I want to examine the New Wave tradition exclusively, and from a different direction. I’m increasingly fascinated by how that simple two-word term has been used over the past 50 years to describe [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘punk’

Oh Death, Up Yours! (R.I.P. Poly Styrene)

What’s So New about New Wave?

Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

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