Gordon wrote in one 1983 essay. As a performer you sacrifice yourself, you go through the motions and emotions of sexuality for all the people who pay to see it, to believe that it exists. The better...
Says Sullivan, Those guys used to get together in the van and put their hands all together and then Paul would say, ‘Where are we going?’ And the band would go, ‘To the middle!’ And he’d go, ‘Which mi...
Punk was not something to grow out of; it was something to grow with—it was a valid, sustainable way to live one’s life. That’s when I started to focus on the idea of what we were doing as being real,...
Pavitt’s goal was to build a national network of like-minded people to fend off what he called the corporate manipulation of our culture by the media centers of New York and Los Angeles.
Beat Happening know that the deep moments in our lives don’t extract profundities from us; rather, it is clichés that are the endless, involuntary spew of the lover’s discourse.
The best Haynes could do was line up perhaps a week of shows, a month in advance. So the band was never sure what the next few months would hold. They’d simply aim for parts of the country where they...
Fired up by the punk explosion, they wrote their first song—Storming Tarragona. Named after the down-at-heel housing development where Boon lived, the song was about tearing down the projects and buil...