This is one of my favorite photos, and from the mail I get, its one of yours also... its The Avengers' Penelope Houston in her youthful prime together with Mayor of the Sunset Strip Rodney Bingenheimer in his prime as well. If you want to hear the interview that's being done while I snapped away, click on the title of this post. You'll be transported through the magic of http to Punk Not Prof...
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I have sad.... no... devastating news to report.Brendan Mullen, one of the pillars of the LA punk rock community, its greatest fan and documentarian passed away today. It was reported by Media Bistro today that he suffered a stroke that he did not survive. The news came to me from my Trusted MOG friend, BrittanyRest in Peace Brendan... say hello to our good friends.
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Iggy Pop is enjoying a renaissance… and has been since the late 70s when David Bowie produced a couple albums for him in Berlin, which catapulted the inadvertent co-inventor of punk back into the stratospheric level of pop culture in which he belongs.This last quarter of 2009 brings forth not one but two books where Iggy is a subject matter.On November 1, Dave Thompson’s Your Pretty Face Is Go
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Good news for fans and followers of two of my favorite people to have made punk rock music, who are now playing the music of their (and our American) roots - Tommy Ramone and Peter Case. There are tour dates and new records to report!Tommy Ramone, the first man to produce that band whose name he still proudly goes by, and Nerves/Plimsouls guitarist and singer/songwriter, Peter Case are just tw...
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North Fork Sound is 3 years old today.The best way to wish them a Happy Birthday is to LISTEN! Easiest way to listen is to visit their site and click on the PLAY icon while you read the playlists and what not.Where else can you hear Social Distortion and all things Lemmy on the same playlist?This is free form radio the way it ought to be.Happy Birthday North Fork Sound!
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On September 14, there was an URGENT message in my email from awesome rock chick, Jahna Rain, telling me of a flood in the basement storage area of a warehouse where a big chunk of the Punk Turns 30 photo archive has been stashed.There was significant flooding and the landlord wanted all the stuff out immediately (ostensibly to clean, restore and repair his property), so I sent out a global 911...
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Dave Treganna, Dave Parsons, Jim Carroll and Stiv Bators, NYC, 1981He whose most well-known song was "People Who Died" has died. Poet, singer/songwriter, spokesman for a generation, Jim Carroll passed away in his home while working (writing). A heart attack took him from us on Friday, September 11, 2009. He was 60 years old.Just about a year ago, my good friend, Dave Parsons, of Sham 69 forw...
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Johnny Rotten and Steve JonesGibson Guitars liked this image so much they used on their site illustrating an interview with Jonesy!Ninety-four year old musical technology innovator and guitar hero, Les Paul passed away this week. The guitars that bear his name link him to my favorite genre of music.Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones played a Gibson Les Paul. Its an awesome solid-body guitar......
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Flyer by Dawn WirthAndy Warhol coined that term "15 minutes of fame" and whether he was a visionary about the way of the postmodern world or whether he merely picked up on and articulated a fledgling phenomena, he had his finger on THEE meme of the 20th and now 21st Century. Everyone who wants to make a splash in the public eye is looking for that 15 minutes...On August 6, we celebrate what wo...
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So - this weekend I'm going to see Blondie!! They're on tour right now with Pat Benatar, and I'm going to Memphis to see them... dragging one of my fave Memphis musicians along for the ride.If you want to see if Blondie is coming through your town - check their website's tour schedule page!.Pretty damn cool that The Donnas are opening this show. This is a girl power show, if ever!
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Punk Rock Royalty: Dave Treganna, Dave Parsons, Jim Carroll and Stiv Bators, 1981, NYCIt was on this date in 1981, July 29 - that Lady Diana Spencer married the world's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles, to become the Princess Diana. Their wedding was televised. This was a huge gigantic deal in the world theatre - not just for Royals watchers, but Anglophiles and people in general... aft...
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Yeah yeah yeah... just like all of the LA punk rockers back in the day... I did see Devo on Halloween at the Starwood. It was THE show to see that night. Word of mouth about Devo after their previous Starwood stand that year (July 25 and 26, 1977) brought the art schoolers from Ohio bigger crowds with each gig. And Halloween is always a punk rocker's dream night to play! So, yeah, I was ther...
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Kim Fowley has seen it all - been there, done that - twice or maybe even nine times! He's been in the music biz longer than many of you dear readers have been alive. Today marks another anniversary of the occasion of his birth.With a Dirtbombs drummer, Ben Blackwell, circa 2004And as seen in the CD booklet for the Dirtbombs double CD set, If You Don't Already Have a Look, (my vote for best al...
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40 years ago, two American men walked on the Moon. One small step for a man... opened the floodgates for pop culture references ad infinitum.The New York Times has an overview of these flights of fancy that you can read here.What else was happening on July 20?1944 - before we thought of walking on the Moon - Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 plot) led by Germ...
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I remember taking this picture of The Last in the little bedroom photo studio I had in my apartment at 1140 North Clark Street (Apartment 306) in West Hollywood. That apartment building was made infamous by one of Motley Crue's memoirs... but before those guys moved in, it was kind of like the after party / dorm complex of the Whisky A Go Go. North Clark Street is really San Vicente, or vice ...
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On July 16, 1969 - 40 years ago today, NASA launched Apollo 11, which would land on our Moon in 4 days' time. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first Americans - the first humans in fact, to walk on the Moon. Of the 7 Apollo missions (11 - 17), astronauts from 6 of them (remember the fate of Apollo 13? deemed a successful failure by NASA) involved Moon landings.We learned the Moon is...
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This is not my photo; I don't know to whom the photo credit belongs, but this is WOODY GUTHRIE. Today is his birthday. He would be 97 years old had he lived, but his message and his music live on.Pop culture as agitprop wasn't born with Woody, but he was one the phenomenon's greatest instigators. Many of my favorite artists took a page from his performance art - Bob Dylan, The Clash, Billy ...
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The DilsThe Dils just might be thrilled at one of today's headlines in the paper of record, The New York Times. Leaders in House Seek to Tax Rich for Health Plan." Click on the post title to be transported by the magic of the innerwebs to the New York Times to read all about it. With songs like Class War and I Hate the Rich, Chip and Tony Kinman as well as their San Francisco punk compadres ...
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Dee Dee RamoneI guess everyone who cares knows that there is a motion picture feature about The Runaways in the making... I wondered who would be cast as whom... the one thing I had known for a long while that it was going to be directed and written for the screen by Floria Sigismondi, who is best known for her photography and for directing a ton of high profile music videos (Bowie, Marilyn M...
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Sometimes, you DO have to leave home to make a dent in your milieu. When the Gories and Oblivians were active new bands back in the 80s and 90s, respectively, they each had a fan base in Europe. That fan base grew and has never stopped growing over the past decade and a half. Back in the day, at home, the Gories were voted "worst band in Detroit," their home town, despite a niche fan base t..
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