patti smith + sissy spacek
debbie harry
Oh wow I can’t believe that I found this, the Italian Whorenuns (circa 1985 or 86) were a band that Kat Bjelland was in after the Pagan Babies (with Courtney Love) but before she was in Babes in Toyland . I didn’t even know that they had made a demo. Amazing
Pyranas punk girl gang in San Francisco, 1978.
“The unexpected effect of the punk scene was the sense of empowerment that comes from being part of a community that works together to achieve common goals, even if our goals as teens were mostly just to be creative and have fun. The punk spirit, the DIY attitude, the feeling that we can steer our lives and circumvent the powers that be lingers long after the pogoing has stopped.” - Alice Bag, 2012
VICE WRITERS
Music Reviews
Rating: X(((((((
Ladies, imagine being a Vice writer. Just walking around everywhere with your entitlement and ennui and midlength penis all gently bouncing in step; wearing a male tank top or a waxed mustache or some shit. Imagine having an ironic, retro-sexist dudebro-voice and getting together with a couple of other white guys and some cocaine and making your not-at-all-different voices all sync up as tautly as your nihilistic senses of humor, then snuggling all up together (no homo!) in a big Bushwick loft of partially employed trust-fund kids while something noninformative is happening on the Internet. What a life. I guess there’s the whole “everyone in the world thinks I’m an asshole” thing to deal with, too, but let’s not split hairs here: Vice writers got it pretty fucking made.
Discos Fetiche:
HELLO CUCA, Amor y cohetes.
Hello Cuca han sido, son otro de esos grupos de los que quiero tenerlo todo. Así que Amor y Cohetes, la primera referencia de su sello, Rompepistas, y su propia primera referencia era impresicindible.
Esta vez tuve que ir a encontrarlo en Texas. Sí, ahí mismo. En España, aunque más tarde lo vería en ebay, era imposible dar con él por más que lo intentaba, así que rebuscando fui a dar con una minúscula distro tejana, creo que se llamaba Fat Cat o algo así. Les escribí un email y me tardaron unos 6 meses en contestar. Pero me contestaron. Y la emoción no me cabía en el cuerpo. Aproveché y también me hice con Triple Dinamita. Acordamos un precio e intercambiamos direcciones. Unas semanas después me llegó una caja (que todavía conservo) con un gato negro pintado y dentro los 7” de Hello Cuca y de regalo (¿Qué más podía pedir?) el single que compartieron con otras de mis bandas preferidas: Los Muebles, TCR y Bananas, el Girando a 33 vueltas por minuto. Joder, abrir esa caja fue simplemente la mayor alegría de mi vida
Patti Smith taking a nap with her first electric guitar, a Fender Duo-Sonic, while rehearsing, photo Lynn Goldsmith 1976
the cramps 1976-77
nick cave + pj harvey
tina turner + janis joplin
peaches + ladyhawke
