Female punk bands sejak awal bukan pelengkap—mereka pionir. Di akhir 1970-an, The Slits, Siouxsie and the Banshees, dan X-Ray Spex di Inggris membawa suara perempuan ke jantung punk: liar, marah, politis, dan peknuh identitas. Di AS, The Runaways (dengan Joan Jett) membuktikan cewek juga bisa memainkan gitar keras dan membakar panggung tanpa kompromi.Masuk era 1990-an, muncul gerakan riot...
The Chrome Tear: How Daft Punk’s Robots Taught Us to Feel
In the turn of the millennium, the music industry was obsessed with the Cult of Personality. It was the era of TRL, reality TV, and the relentless commodification of the pop star’s face. Into this narcissism stepped Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, two French house producers who decided to commit the...
The Razor and the Cage: Why Britney’s Buzzcut Was a Punk Manifesto
February 16, 2007, is a date etched in the collective guilty conscience of Western pop culture. It was the night the Princess of Pop walked into Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, grabbed a pair of electric clippers, and sheared the golden fleece that had helped generate millions of...
Tea-Time Terror: How Two Minutes of Swearing Dismantled the British Empire
On December 1, 1976, the British Empire finally collapsed. It didn't fall to an invading army, a currency crisis, or a diplomatic failure. It fell to a drunken television presenter and four working-class kids in bondage trousers on a regional news program.
When the Sex Pistols replaced Queen as last-minute guests...
The Ugly Beauty of Noise
Why We Need the Filth: A Love Letter to Three Chords and a Microphonic Scream
Let’s be honest with ourselves for a moment. We don’t listen to this stuff because it’s pretty. We don’t spin Fun House by The Stooges or the first Clash record because we want to be soothed. We do it because the world is a polished, plastic lie, and we...
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