In an interview I did with John Doe of the band X a year or so back, he mentioned that he was writing a book of his own to set the record straight with regard to the history of the LA punk scene. [As you might recall, he wasn’t too happy with the job former […]
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Remember when John Doe told us that he was going to write a book of his own about the origins of LA punk? Well he’s gone and done it. “Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk” is now in stores.
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged Black Flag, Brendan Mullen, Charlotte Caffey, Chris Morris, Dave Alvin, El Vez, Exene Cervenka, Go-Go's, great interviews, Henry Rollins, Jack Grisham, Jane Wiedlin, John Doe, Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles, Mike Watt, oral history, Pleasant Gehman, punk, punk rock, Robert Lopez, Teresa Covarrubias, The Blasters, The Brat, The Flesh Eaters, The Minutemen, The Zeros, Tom DeSavia, TSOL, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk, We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, X 2 Comments
How to Build and Race a Losing Shopping Cart
One week each year, in August, before the college students return, and while all of the cops are up north at their summer cottages, it’s safe for the punks to return to Ann Arbor. It’s called Punk Week, and it culminates with a big clandestine shopping cart race through downtown. Not wanting to bum any […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged aerodynamics, Annamarie O'Brien, August, bending space and time, cake, cardboard, collective losers, coming in last, concentrated Salvia, fashion outlaws, flashlights for eyes, Ford Escort, Hipsilanti, Ian Fulcher, Jen Scroggins, Jessica French, K-Mart, Kat Scott, loosers, Patrick Elkins, Punk Week, racing, shopping cart races, shopping carts, shopping carts made to look like sharks, slow wheeled sharks, spray paint, Stefan Krstovic, theft, wizards 9 Comments