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SFU

Posted on February 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

SFU – Dublin Street Punk

SFU / Never First

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The GC-5

Posted on February 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

The GC5 (Grady Coffee Five) was a punk rock band from Mansfield, Ohio, formed in 1997 and split in 2003.
The GC5 provided a political charge to their music comparable to that of The Clash and Stiff Little Fingers. Lyrics included themes of social and political discontent, leftist politics, and the struggle of the working class. In 2000, The GC5 released their debut album Kisses From Hanoi, and in 2001, the band released the EP Horseshoes and Handgrenades. In 2002, the band released the album Never Bet the Devil Your Head. While most definitely presenting the sound of the streetpunk genre, the album was noted for not relying on the street fighting, hard-drinking themes that overruns many of the genre’s songs. In 2003, Thick Records re-released their two albums Kisses From Hanoi (which was out of print) and Horseshoes and Handgrenades (which was originally only available as an import) on one CD. It was the final release from the band…READ MORE

The GC-5 Live in Chicago

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Gene Vincent: The Rock and Roll Singer

Posted on February 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, “Be-B
op-A-Lula”, is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. He is a member of the Rock and Roll and Rockabilly Halls of Fame…read more

Gene Vincent: The Rock And Roll Singer documents Vincent’s British tour of 1969. Working with a pickup band and playing dingy clubs and small halls at “the rough end of the music biz,” the film follows Vincent and his loyal crew as they struggle to make enough money to get from gig to gig.

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Greenland Whalefishers

Posted on February 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

Greenland Whalefishers is a Norwegian folk punk band established in 1994, playing music influenced by celtic traditional music combined with British punk. The musical style of this type of music is also referred to as celtic punk and paddy rock…read more

Greenland Whalefishers – Johnny Lee Roth Live at Ricks Consert Hall 

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The Sultans of Ping FC

Posted on January 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

The Sultans of Ping FC are an Irish band formed in 1988 by Niall O’Flaherty, Pat O’Connell, Paul Fennelly and Ger Lyons. The band’s name is a play on the Dire Straits song “Sultans of Swing”, dating from a time when “it was sacrilege to say anything whatsoever funny or nasty about Dire Straits”.

Following a number of line up changes the band came to the attention of the UK and Irish music press, when the humorous pop-punk song “Where’s Me Jumper” was released. After several other independently released singles, the band signed to Epic Records, through a deal organised by Rhythm King Records’s Martin Heath.

With Epic, the band released their debut album Casual Sex In The Cineplex, and its follow up Teenage Drug. Already a cult hit in the UK, by this time The Sultans Of Ping were also becoming popular in Japan, with many tracks gaining release in that market only. The latter album was called Teenage Planet Sexy War in Japan, and included the single “Michiko”…Read More

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Sultans of Ping – veronica, Limerick December 2010

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Pussy Riot

Posted on January 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

All-girl Russian punk band rages against Putin
Jan 26 01:45 PM US/Eastern

Wrapped up against Russia’s midwinter in vivid balaclavas, brightly coloured minidresses and not much else, eight members of an all-girl punk group stood on a platform in Red Square and started an impromptu show.
“Riot in Russia!” they screamed, before taunting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and urging Russians to hit the streets in protest.

The band, Pussy Riot, has been gaining Internet notoriety after their January 20 gig of sorts, the latest in a string of impromptu performances to protest Putin’s candidacy for the presidency.

The radical feminists’ eyecatching show in front of Saint Basil’s Cathedral lasted mere minutes, but long enough for them to let off smoke flares, wave a flag and strum an unplugged guitar. Police let the women play a short song lampooning Putin — twice — before detaining them…READ MORE

Группа Pussy Riot жжет путинский гламур

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The Blind Owl Band

Posted on January 26, 2012 | Leave a comment

SARANAC LAKE – For newcomers to the Blind Owl Band – a hard-driving, heavily bearded, original string music quartet that’s caught the ears of music aficionados from across the North Country – there are a few ways to tell the group’s story.

For starters, there’s the bit about how the band – which consists of Eric Munley (mandolin, vocals), Arthur Buezo (guitar, vocals), James Ford (banjo, vocals) and Christian Cardiello (bass) – got its name.

“We were at Paul Smith’s College, and we just finished playing a song, when this bird slammed into a window,” Munley said during a recent interview with the Enterprise. “It was a saw-whet owl. It got up and just stared at us for 45 seconds or so, then it took off. And one of the nicknames for a saw-whet is a ‘blind owl.’”

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The Blind Owl Band — Revolving Door

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Colorblind James Experience

Posted on January 22, 2012 | Leave a comment

Colorblind James Experience were an alternative roots/pop/rock band founded in 1980 in San Francisco, California . Bandleader and singer/songwriter/guitarist “Colorblind” James Charles Cuminale was originally from Rochester, New York but assembled early versions of what would become the Experience in Oswego, New York before relocating to San Francisco.

After a couple years of mixed results there, the band regrouped and moved again, this time back to Rochester which remained its home base until Cuminale’s premature death in 2001. The band enjoyed brief fame in the UK and Europe after BBC DJ John Peel gave the Experience some exposure, and their music has made a deep and lasting impression. Their “Dance Critters” single reached number 10 on the UK Indie Chart, while their albums Colorblind James Experience and Why Should I Stand Up reached numbers 5 and 13 respectively…

Their line-up changed repeatedly over the years, and their third album was released under the name of Colorblind James and the Death Valley Boys

Chuck Cuminale unexpectedly died of an arhythmia in July 2001.

Colorlind James Experience played the Finnegan’s Wake Music Festival in 2000′

The Late Colorblind James at the Grassroots Festival 1996

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1983 Series on the Punk Rock Movement

Posted on January 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

1983 Punk Rock Series on KTTV Channel 11 News. 5-day look at the Punk Rock Movement from England to Los Angeles starting in the late 70′s. This is part 1 of a 5-part series aired nightly one week in 1983 on the Los Angeles Channel 11 News.

1983 Punk Rock Series On KTTV Channel 11 – Pt. 1

 

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never a dull moment on the nyc subway

Posted on January 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

This via Corey Doctorow

In this video from the NYC subway, a singer named Jessica Latshaw, bearing a small uke, finds herself sitting across from a gentleman with a fine pair of bongos. The two begin an impromptu jam session, emceed by a random gregarious stranger and captured for posterity by a subway rider with a camphone. The performance is just fine, and it’s clear from the footage that the rest of the car is having a fine time.

In theory, it’s possible that the whole thing is a fix, “buzz marketing” from Latshaw and co, and if so, well, it’s an extraordinarily nonobnoxious example of the form.

okay- what you are about to watch is a true new york experience. what originally started out as a typical nyc subway ride (sitting across from guy who smelled like urine) turned into an awesome performance by two people who have never met before. i captured the whole thing on video.

never a dull moment on the nyc subway (Thanks, z7q2!)

Watch it on You Tube:  2P-i_5skhsU

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