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>Ali Smith’s 90s New York punk scene - The Guardian [En.]
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Diletantes geniales

"Por Favor No Lo Envíes a Casa". Martin Kippenberger, 1983.

'Geniale(r) Dilletanten' (Diletantes Geniales) fue el nombre de un antiguo y efímero festival berlinés que dio también nombre a una más reciente exposición itinerante, ambos reflejo de una subcultura experimental y precaria surgida en el ambiente artístico previo a la caída del muro. Por extensión también se suelen enmarcar dentro de ese movimiento sus influencias posteriores y los encuentros surgidos en el marco de su radio de acción.
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▶Sprung aus den Wolken - Noch lange nicht
▶Sprung aus den Wolken - A-i Akcam La
▶Die Haut feat. Laurie Tomin - Okinai
▶Die Haut feat. Blixa Bargeld - The Assisi Machine
▶Palais Schaumburg - Wir bauen eine neue Stadt
▶Die Tödliche Doris – Stopp (Der Information)
▶Die Tödliche Doris– Tanz Im Quadrat
▶Einstürzende Neubauten - Installlation Nº 1
▶D.A.F. - Verschwende deine Jugend
▶D.A.F. - Was ziehst du an heute Nacht
▶Malaria! - Thrash Me
▶Malaria! - Your Turn To Run
▶Malaria! - You You
▶Grauzone - Schlachtet!
▶Grauzone - Wütendes Glas
▶Grauzone - Träume Mit Mir
▶Grauzone - Raum
▶Grauzone - Ein Tanz Mit Dem Tod
▶Grauzone - Eisbär
▶39 Clocks - DNS
▶39 Clocks - Test The Beat

Electro Post Punk

▶Contortion
▶Plastic
▶Lost Myself Again
▶Current Affair
▶Disco
▶Drop You
▶Hazing
▶One Of These
▶AVC
▶Can't Take It
▶Smoke In The Eye
▶A Thousand Hands
▶Flesh
▶Visions Of You
▶Into The Unknown
>Crassy Mel | Audiotree Far Out
>Disco | Cruel World Festival
>Current Affair | Brooklyn
>Echoes with Jehnny Beth


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El nacimiento del Punk Rock

Danny García sigue en su empeño de difundir y retratar el ambiente primigenio del rock, esta vez con una semblanza, a través de entrevistas y material de archivo y su estilo habitual de edición, del Max's Kansas City, aquel restaurante neoyorquino y sala de conciertos no tan venerado históricamente como el CBGB pero igual de importante para la escena del Punk Rock, con habituales en sus carteles como los Stooges, la Velvet, los New York Dolls o Alice Cooper, y que pasó realmente a las crónicas como refugio nocturno de Bowie, Iggy, Lou Reed o Warhol y su tropa entre muchos otros.

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La gramola de la tienda 2ª parte

Jordan en Sex por Jane England

Nueva recopliación, a cargo como la primera de Marco Pirroni (Adam & The Ants, Siuoxie & The Banshees), de las canciones que sonaban en la gramola de la tienda de Vivienne Westwood y Malcolm McLaren, la boutique Sex, origen del punk británico. New compilation, selected as the first by Marco Pirroni (Adam & The Ants, Siuoxie & The Banshees), of the songs played on the jukebox at Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's store, Sex, origin of British punk.

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Contra la máquina

Stiv Bators. Foto: Dave Treat

▶The Lords Of The New Church - Sorry For The Man
▶Dead Boys - Not Anymore
▶Perrosky - Todo Lo Que Sube
▶Marion Raw - Hideaway
▶Carrion Kids - Rulo
▶The Bela Lugossips - Caballo Rojas
▶Sex Sex Sex - Sonido Perdido
▶Stereo Animal - Circo
▶Los Bengala - Día De Mierda
▶O Lendário Chucrobillyman - Nothing to Choose
▶The Chats - Out On The Street
▶La Verkin - Hey, Stand Up
▶Big'N - Knife Of Sin
▶Nero - Melange
▶Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 2
▶Luke Haines & Peter Buck - Subterranean Earth Stomp
▶Luke Haines & Peter Buck - 45 Revolutions
▶The Lords Of The New Church - Russian Roulette
▶The Lords Of The New Church - Dance With Me (Extended)
▶Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
▶The Heads & Johnette Napolitano - Damage I've Done
▶Catherine Graindorge & Iggy Pop - The Dictator
▶Lulu Lewis - Dig Beat
▶Lulu Lewis - Moving Fast
▶Lulu Lewis - The Sidewalks
▶Lulu Lewis - Passing By
▶The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
▶The Lords Of The New Church - Dreams & Desires
▶The Wanderers - There'll Be No Tomorrow
▶David Bowie - Subterraneans
▶Blonde Redhead - 3 O'Clock
▶Blonde Redhead - For The Damaged Coda


¡Y que vivan las mujeres de Irán!

Ansia perpetua

ADULT. - Anxiety Always (Detroit, 2003)
Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller
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Bonus:
▶Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat (feat. Nicola)
▶Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat (ADULT. Remix)
>Hands Around My Throat (Benicassim 2003)

Tan cerca, tan lejos

Berlín, 1983. [WUTANFALL | Burning Down The Haus]


▶David Bowie - Love Is Lost (James Murphy Remix)
▶Killer Kane Band - Mr. Cool
▶George Brigman - Jungle Rot
▶Agent Orange - Bloodstains
▶The Weirdos - A Life Of Crime
▶The Bizarros - Men and Mice
▶The Bizarros - Ice Age
▶The Bizarros - Lady Doubonette
▶The Hollywood Squares - Hillside Strangler!
▶The Skunks - Earthquake Shake
▶The Zeros - Don't Push Me Around
▶The Dils - Class War
▶The Lewd - Kill Yourself EP
▶The Deadbeats - Final Ride
▶Jazz Destroyers - Love Meant To Die
▶Scars - Adult-ery
▶The Victims - Television Addict
▶The Stooges - Scene Of The Crime
▶Isolierband - Keine Gnade
▶Toxoplasma - Ordinäre Liebe
▶L'Attentat - Kinderkrieg
▶Throw Rag - Rule Maker
▶Throw Rag - Space Hump Me
▶The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
▶The Long Blondes - Lust In The Movies
▶The Smiths - Sweet And Tender Hooligan
▶Dharmacide - Depressed
▶Cockney Rebel - Mr. Soft
▶LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
▶Triángulo De Amor Bizarro - No Eres Tú
▶Sly Dunbar - Hot You're Hot
▶Sly & Robbie - Theme From Mission Imposible
▶Dan Sartain - Walk Among The Cobras Pt. 1
▶Dave Alvin - Johnny Ace Is Dead
▶Johnny Ace - Pledging My Love

La moda del 77

'Punk In London' (Documental, Wolfgang Büld 1977)
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▶Chelsea - Right To Work
▶Chelsea - I'm On Fire
▶Chelsea - Goverment
▶The Adverts - One Chord Wonders
▶The Adverts- Fate Of Chriminals
▶The Adverts - Safety In Numbers
▶The Adverts - On Wheels
▶Jayne County - Paranoia Paradise
▶Jayne County - Take a Detour
▶Jayne County - Brainwashed
▶Jayne County - Johnny Gone To Heaven
▶Jayne County - Fuck Off
▶X-Ray Spex - Identity
▶The Lurkers - Shadow
▶The Clash - Janie Jones
▶The Stranglers - I Feel Like a Wog
▶Vic Godard & Subway Sect - Out Of Touch

La muerte de la Fotografía

'The Death Of Photography' (2016) | Peter Gravelle
Carpet Bombing Culture

Espíritu rebelde

'Rebel Dread' (Documental, 2020)
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Don Letts Website | Culture Clash | IMDb | Discogs | Boiler Room | Superstonic Sound

Mary Lou Fulton

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La imagen pública está podrida

"Los PIL son de Rotten" es la otra traducción posible del título de este documental que repasa la trayectoria de la empresa de John Lydon (anteriormente conocido como Johnny Rotten) después de la efímera existencia de los Sex Pistols. Intentando alejarse del control de Malcolm McLaren y las discográficas montó con unos amigos el influyente combo artístico post-punk P.I.L. (Imagen Pública Limitada), en la que ha sido su banda más duradera y que ha sobrevivido a robos, traiciones, decepciones, cambios continuos de formación y todo tipo de vicisitudes y que, junto a su unión sentimental con la madre de la cantante de las Slits, es su máximo compromiso y logro a lo largo de los años, en los que ha seguido fiel a la extravagancia y la provocación.

'The Public Image Is Rotten' (Tabbert Fiiller, 2017)

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Imagen pública, imagen privada

John Lydon (conocido entonces como Johnny Rotten) se encontraba después de los Sex Pistols en una situación comprometida, arruinado, sin control sobre el escaso y relevante legado de su anterior y efímera banda y con la animosidad de la opinión pública contra su persona por la controvertida fama obtenida. En esas circunstancias formó Public Image Limited (o P.I.L.), la que es su banda más duradera, una amalgama de sonidos dub, tribales, after-punk y avant-garde que formó con sus amigos Keith Levene (The Clash) y Jah Wobble. También formó parte de la banda su amiga Jeannette Lee aunque encargándose de labores no musicales, como la imagen y la prensa. Jeannette era conocida en aquel circuito entre otras cosas por regentar una tienda londinense de ropa, Acme Attractions, junto a Don Letts, el que fuera pincha de la discoteca Roxy, que contribuyó a la popularidad del reggae entre los punks, colaborador de los Clash, posteriormente en B.A.D. y más recientemente aclamado director de documentales. Jeanette, que aparece en la portada de un disco de la banda, Flowers Of Romance (nombre tomado de un irrelevante grupo en el que militó Sid Vicious), participaría después en la discográfica Rough Trade y en la fama de bandas como The Smiths o Pulp. Jarvis Cocker, cantante de estos últimos, descubrió en casa de Jeanette una caja llena de Polaroids de aquella época temprana, entre ellas la portada del disco referido o el single respectivo, que vinieron a formar este libro.

After the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten was in a compromised situation, ruined, without control over the scarce and relevant legacy of his previous and ephemeral band and with the animosity of public opinion towards his persona for the controversial fame obtained. In those circumstances he formed Public Image Limited (or P.I.L.), which has become his most durable band, an amalgam of dub, tribal, after-punk and avant-garde sounds that he formed with his friends Keith Levene (The Clash) and Jah Wobble. His friend Jeanette Lee was also part of the band although she was in charge of non-musical labours, such as image and the press. Jeannette was known in that circuit among other things for running a London clothing store, Acme Attractions, with Don Letts, the one who dj'd at the Roxy nightclub, which contributed to the popularity of reggae among the punks, collaborator of the Clash, later in B.A.D. and more recently acclaimed documentary director. Jeannette, who appears on the cover of the band's album Flowers Of Romance (name taken from an irrelevant group in which Sid Vicious militated), would later participate in the Rough Trade record label and in the fame of bands like The Smiths or Pulp . Jarvis Cocker, singer of the latter, discovered in Jeanette's house a box full of Polaroids from that early era, including the cover of the aforementioned album, which came to form this book. 

Jeannette Lee: Private Image (Idea, 2017)

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El Hong Kong Café, un garito punk

El Hong Kong Café fue un garito de comida china muy activo durante la escena punk y new wave angelina de los 70s y 80s, con multitud de actuaciones underground. Aparece, por ejemplo, en el documental del género The Decline Of Western Civilization y en la película Chinatown. Actualmente sigue conservando su aspecto, pero reconvertido en una tienda de regalos.

The Hong Kong Café was a very active Chinese diner during the punk and new wave L.A. scene of the 70s and 80s, with a multitude of underground performances. It is shown, for example, in the documentary The Decline Of Western Civilization or cult film Chinatown. Currently it seems to keep the same architecture, but has been converted into a gift shop.

▶Bags - Survive
▶B-People - Can Can't
▶Dead Kennedys - Insight
▶Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
▶Dead Kennedys - Dead End
▶Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
▶Black Flag - Black Coffee
▶Black Flag - Slip It In
▶Black Flag - My War
▶Middle Class - Out of Vogue
▶Middle Class - Situations
▶Middle Class - Out of my Hands
▶Middle Class - Listen
▶Middle Class - A Skeleton at the Feast
▶The Alley Cats - Nothing Means Nothing Anymore 
▶The Alley Cats - Nightmare City
▶The Alley Cats - Escape From Planet Earth
▶Suburban Lawns - Janitor
▶Germs - We Must Bleed
▶Fear - I Love Livin' In The City
▶Wall Of Voodoo - Longarm
▶Urinals - Hologram
▶Monitor - Amphibious

El mejor guitarrista del mundo

Robert Quine, 1980. Foto: Deborah Feingold


>El día que conocí al mejor guitarrista del mundo
Rafa Cervera


EscuchaListen
▶Richard Hell & The Voivoids - Destiny Street (1982)
▶Richard Hell & The Voivoids - Blank Generation
▶Robert Quine & Fred Maher - Basic (1984)

Algunos conciertos de los Cramps en YouTube

Esencia de mujer (Lux & Ivy, Essen 1998)


>Jul. 1981, Mudd Club, New York
>Haçienda 1984
>The Tube 1986
>Bourges, France. 1/4/86
>The Fillmore, San Francisco, 31/12/87
>Jaap Edenhal,Amsterdam 1990
>15/8/93 Northeim-Waldbühne outdoor festival
>Essen 1998
>Oslo, Øya festival 2006

Bonus: The Cramps - Complete Videography

Las pinturas de Kelsey Henderson

>Website: http://www.kelsey-henderson.com/



Kelsey. Foto: Violet Shuraka [Cheap & Plastique]



EscuchaListen
▶Sort Sol ft. Chelsea Wolfe·'Life Took You For a Freq'
▶The Wolfmanhattan Project·'Smells Like You'
▶Twin Guns·'Johnny's Dead'
▶Tom Waits·'Dead and Lovely' 
▶Pink Turns Blue·'Your Master Is Calling'
▶Scars·'Horrorshow' 
▶Barry Adamson·'Mr. Eddy's Theme 1'
▶David Bowie·'I'm Deranged (Reprise)'
▶Antonio Carlos Jobim·'Insensatez'