Animal rights charities criticise the Offspring over video of chimp in strip club | Punk
[ad_1] Animal rights charities have criticised chart-topping Californian punk band the Offspring for using chimpanzees to act like humans – including in a strip club – in their latest music video. Save the Chimps, a Florida-based sanctuary for chimpanzees that have been involved in scientific research, the entertainment industry and elsewhere, described the video as […]
‘We got shot at’ – the outrageous life of Jayne County, the first trans rock’n’roller | Music
[ad_1] Jayne County is explaining the term “wrecking”, which was a popular pastime among the more confrontational drag queens of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 60s. “Just deliberately trying to freak out the regular people, the solids as we called them,” she laughs. “Shaking people out of their normality, just trying to see what nerves we […]
‘It reeked of hope and ambition’: 30 years of riot grrrl label Kill Rock Stars | Music
[ad_1] In 1991, something was brewing under the constant clouds of Olympia, Washington. Young people flocked there, DIY bands formed, fanzines were scrawled with fervour, and feminist politics galvanised young women. And a record label was founded to house it all. “Everyone was in a band, usually three,” remembers Tinuviel Sampson, who helped launch Kill […]
‘Nobody else could make this music’: the return of underground punks Rudimentary Peni | Punk
[ad_1] The succession of cult band shirts worn by Riz Ahmed for his Oscar-nominated leading role in Sound of Metal establish the insider credentials of the film as much as those of Ahmed’s character. One of them will provoke particularly unexpected nostalgia for underground punk fans: a white Rudimentary Peni T-shirt, emblazoned with the cover […]
Platinum pop-punks the Offspring: ‘We’re outcasts among outcasts’ | Punk
[ad_1] “It’s very fashionable now to say, ‘When we were young, we didn’t fit in,’” says Dexter Holland, frontman for multi-platinum punk-rockers the Offspring, Zooming from the band’s plush Orange County recording studio. “But it really was true for us in high school, where everything was about looks, athleticism and popularity. I mean, look at […]
Placebo was my liberation: I could do anything and be adored | Music
[ad_1] It was perhaps inevitable that I would fall for Placebo. Looking back, they were at the precise intersection of my main teenage interests: arty pretension, goth-glam aesthetics, and beautiful wounded men wearing black eyeliner. God knows what, at 15, I understood of their tales of sadomasochism and ketamine, of doomed romances and seedy underworlds. […]
Pussy Riot’s Masha Alekhina arrested again for protesting against Putin
[ad_1] Pussy Riot’s Masha Alekhina was arrested again after attending a protest criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin last weekend (January 23). The activist and musician was reportedly detained for 48 hours and is now a suspect in a criminal case. Alekhina was one of 3,000 people who were arrested at the protest, which was attended […]
Stewart Lee film ‘King Rocker’ lands February premiere date
[ad_1] Upcoming Stewart Lee film King Rocker has landed a premiere date on Sky Arts next month. The documentary delves into punk history and follows The Nightingales and The Prefects frontman Robert Lloyd, who has gone “under the radar for four decades”. Set to premiere on Sky Arts on February 6 at 9pm, the film […]
Photographer Deanna Templeton: ‘Everything gets mixed up when you’re a teenager’ | Art and design
[ad_1] For around 20 years, American photographer Deanna Templeton has shot street portraits of young women who caught her eye, filing them under the heading “Female” in her expansive digital archive. “I’ve always photographed what interests me,” she says, “but it never occurred to me until I began looking closely at them that they all […]
Robert Fripp and singer Toyah Wilcox share kitchen cover of Billy Idol’s ‘Rebel Yell’
[ad_1] King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer Toyah Willcox have shared another cover from their kitchen as part of an ongoing series. The couple, who are married, launched their Sunday Lunch video series last year, sharing renditions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie and more through Willcox’s YouTube channel. Last week (January 10), the pair […]
