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Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock than punk, I would say. Feel free to disagree. The Bellingham Bash in 1990 or 91 had a good vibe, though, and I saw Nirvana at Squid Row for a dollar before they got famous. I think the point is that…
Grunge?
Dead Kennedys was on constant repeat on my walkman or home stereo as a 14-year-old in the late 80's. Every Friday was spent at the tiny all-ages punk club in our east-coast college town. Government Issue, Fugazi, Das Damen, Black Flag, Jello Biafra, even They Might Be Giants came through.
Even now, 30 years later, I load up Frankenchrist or any other DK album on YouTube at work and that's my intense-focus music. The music is still strong as hell, Jello's words and delivery are ruthless and scathing and hilarious, and the whole thing just works.
I wish there was a DK today. Rage had it. Some Run The Jewels tracks have it, but not quite.
Reading this with no clue what punk is. The article doesn't do a good job of explaining it or answering the question the title poses to someone not already part of it.
Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock than punk, I would say. Feel free to disagree. The Bellingham Bash in 1990 or 91 had a good vibe, though, and I saw Nirvana at Squid Row for a dollar before they got famous. I think the point is that…
I saw Nirvana kind of before they were famous too (first British tour). Am I right in thinking they were kind of unmemorable, or was it just that I had other things on my mind at that gig?
Any recommendations of cross-cultural punk/metal bands? Taiwanese: 滅火器 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgNLY8nDxQ http://www.chthonic.tw Mongolian: 九大圣器 Nine Treasures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7PfYfmoEo 杭盖乐队 Hanggai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nf1HKQNuQQ Norwegian: http://www.folk-metal.nl Celtic: https://celticfolkpunk.blogspot.tw
Brasilian : Ratos de Porao http://www.ratosdeporao.org Spanish : Soziedad Alkoholika http://www.soziedadalkoholika.com French : La Dent Noire https://ladentnoire.org/ (<- my band !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyMfmdADAM
Japanese: Monoeyes/The Hiatus/Ellegarden (3 bands with the same lead singer, Takeshi Hosomi)
One of the interesting thing about these underground music movements from hip hop to punk is the DIY ethos for the creation of music, publications, performance spaces, and more. Adults and respectable companies aren't helping (for the most part) so the kids have to direct and make things on their own. I think it's not a coincidence that many people who get involved in underground music movements later start successfu…
Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock than punk, I would say. Feel free to disagree. The Bellingham Bash in 1990 or 91 had a good vibe, though, and I saw Nirvana at Squid Row for a dollar before they got famous. I think the point is that…
> it was something different Grunge?
For those that don’t know, Tim was part of Operation Ivy and later Rancid.
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Noisey (VICE) has a nice short (30 minute) documentary about the hardcore music scene from NYC in the 1970s to South Korean today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRoEdcBgH2Q
Ha, narrated by Tim Armstrong of Rancid fame -- until recently I hadn't listened to them since I was in middle school. Having lived in the Bay Area in the interim it was interesting to hear all of their references to Berkeley, San Francisco, Richmond, Campbell, etc. Half their songs seem to be about Bart stations.
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I'm a father of two and a startup founder. I like Detroit techno, and all relevant events _begin_ at 1 AM. The solution isn't a startup, the solution is techno parties that start at 9 PM.
> techno parties that start at 9 PM But then all the old people like us will show up...