Wednesday, April 13 2011
‘Heaven 17 Live at Scala’ Gives Us Those Chilly-Cum-Funky Electronic Tunes
In the early '80s, it was possible for England's postpunk pioneers -- New Romantics, Rude Boys, and assorted other malcontents -- to imagine themselves the center of the media universe.
Thursday, April 3 2008
Live Fast, Die Young, or Get Off the Stage
Why wouldn't they burn out instead of fade away? Berman examines the sad spectacle of punk-rock reunions and shows how they destroy the two elements that actually made punk attractive: sex appeal and impermanence.
Friday, October 21 2005
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Focusing primarily on British and American music between 1978 and 1984, Reynolds emphasizes the idea that the glossed-over post-punk years were not marginal to the history of rock: they actually spawned a range of sounds that were more revolutionary than punk itself and that left a far more significant legacy, laying the foundations for the subsequent emergence of alternative music in all its myriad forms.
