Teresa Taylor, a longtime drummer for the psych-punk band Butthole Surfers, has died. The news about Taylor — also known as “Teresa Nervosa” — was shared by the band Monday on Twitter: “Teresa Taylor passed away peacefully this weekend,” they wrote. “She will live in our hearts forever. RIP, dear …
Read More »Goth Icon Siouxsie Sioux Plays First Show in 10 Years
Siouxsie Sioux performed for the first time in a decade on Wednesday at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. While her set was dominated by Banshees songs from “Spellbound” to “Happy House” to their Beatles’ cover of “Dear Prudence,” Siouxsie also performed tracks from her 2007 solo album Mantaray, including “Here Comes …
Read More »Proper's 'Jean' Celebrates the Life of Jean Jimenez-Joseph, Who Died in ICE Custody
Jean Jimenez-Joseph was a talented drummer, carpenter, and one of the smartest men Proper frontman Erik Garlington ever met. Tragically, in May 2017, he became another victim of ICE’s dehumanizing war on undocumented people. Jimenez-Joseph died by suicide in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center after repeatedly telling officials, and the Immigration …
Read More »Noise Rules the Night in Austin
It’s been a long week in Austin, and many of the musicians and fans who flew into Texas had already split town by Saturday night —but those who were left made it a night to remember, with furiously loud punk noise, enormous EDM beats, and more. Here are the best …
Read More »K-Pop, Punk Rock, and a Drag Show Keep the Good Times Going in Austin
And then it was Friday. The arrival of the weekend coincided with St. Patrick’s Day to bring a huge influx of revelers to downtown Austin last night, as it does most years, leaving long lines of curious folks dressed in green queuing outside previously under-the-radar venues. There was still tons …
Read More »A Bold New Alt-Rock Scene Is Brewing in Mexico's Noisy, High-Powered Underground
It’s not uncommon to hear that rock music is on the way out. Rock enthusiasts have noticed that bands who used to headline festivals are getting demoted down bills or even relegated to the nostalgia circuit, and it often seems like there are few emerging bands ready to take the …
Read More »An Image of Lou Reed in His Young Folkie Days
In late-1964-early-1965, Lou Reed wrote to the poet Delmore Schwartz, his creative-writing professor at Syracuse University, and described his life in New York City since graduating the previous spring. Reed noted his unsubmitted Harvard application and ambivalence about grad school; he obliquely referenced the “sick but strange and fascinating” experiences …
Read More »Gospel, Hardcore Cult Faves, Continue Their Great Prog-Punk Gene Splice on 'S.R.O.'
Received rock wisdom teaches us that punk and prog are sworn enemies. But by the early-to-mid-2000s, genres that seemed worlds apart in the late Seventies had started to creep closer together. The Mars Volta’s psychedelic 2002 post-hardcore fever dream De-Loused in the Comatorium suggested a wondrous hybrid; further underground, a …
Read More »Human Switchboard's Punk Rock Classic 'Who's Landing in My Hangar'
Formed in Kent, Ohio during the late Seventies, Human Switchboard was one of a slew of bands who sprung up throughout the benighted American heartland in the wake of punk-rock’s initial explosion in New York and London — from the Gizmos in Indiana to the Embarrassment in Kansas to the …
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