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Punk Hybrids: Back in the Garage
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Punk Hybrids: Back in the Garage

By
Iain Ellis
/ 13 January 2020

Punk's idea(l)s may have been fostered in Art schools, but its musical foundations were cultivated in garages.

Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Brother Wayne: MC5 and ‘The Hard Stuff’
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Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Brother Wayne: MC5 and ‘The Hard Stuff’

By
Megan Volpert
/ 7 August 2018

This rock memoir reads like Kramer set up an AA meeting and then didn't want to stand up and give his share.

Lecherous Gaze: One Fifteen
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Lecherous Gaze: One Fifteen

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 29 March 2017
Lecherous Gaze continues earning its genre-jumping wings, one hyphen at a time.
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Loud Guitars, Psychotic Singers, Demonic Drums: ‘Detroit Rock City’

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 17 June 2013
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Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – “City Slang”

By
AJ Ramirez
/ 28 October 2009
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20 Questions: Handsome Dick Manitoba

By
Karen Zarker
/ 1 September 2008
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MC5: Back in the USA

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 22 October 2003
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MC5: Kick out the Jams

By
Adam Williams
/ 3 September 2003

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