Articles tagged "simon reynolds"

Music Feature

Live Fast, Die Young, or Get Off the Stage

by Judy Berman

[3.Apr.08] :. 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.

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Film Review

P2

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Nov.07] :. You could say the killer finds himself in his art. You could also say you've seen that art -- and this movie -- before.

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Books Review

Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds

by Alison Neale

[21.Oct.05] :. 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.

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Film Review

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Oct.05] :. Prize Winner goes through odd motions to set Evelyn's taxing context and her admirable survival, its most extraordinary moment turns surreal.

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