01 Feb
My Top 10 Bassists Number 10 Evan Shanks Evan took over bass duties from bassist Donny Brook (Symbol Six), and has been kicking ass up and down the West Coast. With a new EP ready to drop you can check him out first hand. Number 9 Jean Beauvoir Most people only knew him as the [...]
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25 Jan
Иконопис My Top 10 Pre-Punk Albums Number 10 The Who – Who Are You This album came out in 1978; I think I got it at that time. Pete Townshend said He wrote this album to bridge the gap between progressive rock and punk. The song I continually played was 905, a song written and [...]
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18 Jan
Punk Attitude 2005 – IFC Pictures Directed by: Don Letts Jello Biafra Bob Gruen John Holmstrom Chrissie Hynde Jim Jarmusch Darryl Jenifer David Johansen Mick Jones Wayne Kramer Glen Matlock Legs McNeil Thurston Moore Tommy Ramone Henry Rollins Captain Sensible Paul Simonon Siouxsie Sioux Pat Smear Poly Styrene Ari Up Originally shown on IFC, which [...]
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11 Jan
Top 10 Punk Drummers Number 10 Charlie Quintana Charlie has been at this for a long-ass time; his time with the Plugz, Cruzados, and recently Social Distortion. Charlie’s style meshes with every band he sits in with. Number 9 Topper Headon Topper performed great drumming for the Clash; his heroin addiction got him booted from [...]
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04 Jan
Number 10 Eric Leach At a time when punk bands seem to rely solely on their back catalog, Leach and Symbol Six have bypassed the whole nostalgia circuit and perform almost a new and much harder set of songs. While most of their contemporaries have a wall of security around the stage or some kind [...]
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