I met Chris when I was with Perdition on a small Montreal/Albany tour in 2010. I think that’s when I met Chris? Anyway, he’s always been a go-to person in Albany and I wanted to find out more about his label and his recent Noise Annoys record store turned web shop. Here is Chris from […]
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C.C.T.V — “Quiet” EP The coolest record of the year so far at least to these ears, total nervous frantic post-punk created in the furtive fertile NW Indiana scenery…The songs are tightly wound fraught invocations of the indignities of modern life, anxiety and paranoia, everything sounds like it was recorded on a boombox at the […]
Read MoreThis originally ran in MRR #312/May ’09. which you can grab here Stef Petticoat is best known for her pioneering, one-woman punk band, the Petticoats. As a German lesbian, Stef also stands out with her entirely unique approach to the blossoming late 1970s European punk scene. Her self-recorded, self-released Petticoats single was “Record of the […]
Read MoreI met Beau Patrick Coulon in passing in many places over the years. He gets around the USA punk scene and documents it well by camera. I feel like I run into him everywhere. Since I keep seeing his photos published (even in MRR!) I thought I would interview him as to break a bit […]
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92 — “Cenzura/Cukrarnar” The travel back in time continues! Next stop: Ljubljana, Slovenia circa 1978. Like many bands from former Yugoslavia, 92—who get their name from the police’s phone number, the equivalent to 911 in the US—fuse new wave sounds with reconstructed regional and traditional musical elements, all filtered through punk with a keyboard twist. […]
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