Gimme Danger

There's a pretty sharp irony in the fact that Iggy Pop and the Stooges- the ones who invented punk rock, who have never sold out, who want no part of the fame and money offered from the corporate nipple, who never played ball with any person in a suit, and who stand against everything that …

Gigantic (a Tale of Two Johns)

They Might Be Giants... love them or hate them, because few people fall in between those two poles. My personal discovery of the band was fairly early on, when Dr. Demento started playing tunes off their first album and grabbed my young brain for a long, long, time. Decades later, it's encouraging to know they're …

Let It Be

Does the world really need to spend any more time thinking about or examining the Beatles? Nobody- no matter how good or influential they may have been- really deserves so much scrutiny or attention. There are other bands out there; the myth-making has long run its course, and the cash-extraction that continues every 5-10 years …

We Jam Econo

The punk ethos - the true punk ethos - is something admirable. Keeping it simple, stripped down, no B.S., nothing fancy, direct, focused politics against all forms of oppression, being true to your self, never doing anything for money, having and spending very little money, supporting your community, power to the people, and, of course, …

Urgh! A Music War

There are boring concert films, there are fun concert films, and there are concert films that only fans of that particular band could ever enjoy. Urgh! A Music War is none of the above. It's a fascinating, unique, and thank-god-somebody-captured-this piece of cultural history- specifically, the history of New Wave music- which you might not …