Relationships are currency, something Sonic Youth had picked up on not only from the art world but from the camaraderie of the SST bands.
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,...
Picciotto recalled when he was a teenager writing to obscure English punk bands like Rudimentary Peni, Dead Wretched, and Blitz. Those fuckers wrote us back, and it blew my mind, recalls Picciotto. It...
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.
In terms of the peripherals, the attitude of do-it-yourself, that kind of thing, not being a remote rock star and having layers of management and record labels and all that—instead, booking your own s...
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...
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