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“Bob Mould has aged into an eminence gris of several indie scenes during a long-and-decorated career, from the ’80s roar of Hüsker Dü to the solo tones of Workbook, to the ’90s power-trio glory of Sugar.” … More »
“To me punk was an attitude that just said: ‘We don’t believe you.’ We were told we had no right to exist, unemployable, no future for us. And punk had the guts to step up and say ‘I don’t believe you. I have been born, same as you. I have the right to exist.’ And that is punk.”
- Joe Strummer interviewed for Greek TV in the streets of London, 1985.
Love Strummer’s iterative, disparate “definitions” of punk …
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“‘The Warpath’ manages to stay quiet on the decibel scale without ever sounding subdued. Delicate, silken strains of melody swell and dissolve under Youngblood’s melancholy falsetto—interrupted every so often by jaunty whistling and snare drum rolls. The effect is that of a Civil War-era typhoid fever dream.” … More »
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The Vaccines – All in White (Instrumental) (4,263 plays)
Here’s one for you. An instrumental version of All in White. It’s on a “For promotional use only” copy of the All in White single I have, instead of Tuck and Roll. I don’t know if it appears anywhere else.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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