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NPR On punk: "At first, especially living where I was living, like, the nihilism of it all attracted me — the idea of live fast, die young — because I didn't think I was going to make it out of South Florida, especially [because] I got arrested and w
Read more ... as already a felon by the time I was like 14, 15 years old, so I really thought I was going to get stuck there. So the idea of dying was appealing."
For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of Armor
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The founder of the band Against Me! felt so conflicted about her gender growing up that she thought she was schizophrenic. Since transitioning, she's become more in touch with herself.
107 months ago
HuffPost Entertainment These Punk'd tweets are LIT.
110 months ago
The New York Times The message of this bonfire? "Punk has become another marketing tool."
112 months ago
The New Yorker "There are ways of intellectualizing punk—important ways in which its rebellion can be read as political, symbolic—but my sense is that punk lives elsewhere in the body."
Where Punk Rock Begins
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Punk is contingent upon the body, and there are few artists whose physical sacrifice has felt as generative or as essential as Iggy Pop’s.
114 months ago
Entertainment Weekly Daft Punk's iconic helmet got a major makeover!
114 months ago
The Daily Beast "He scared the hell out of me."
116 months ago
HelloGiggles "Practically every heartbreak, depressing night, joyous concert, loving friend, and beautiful love I’ve had in my life stems from pop punk."
118 months ago
HelloGiggles "Practically every heartbreak, depressing night, joyous concert, loving friend, and beautiful love I’ve had in my life stems from pop punk."
118 months ago
NPR On the origins of the mosh pit: "That started in the punk days of people commingling with each other. The band and the audience were one ... I'm on stage, you're on stage."
119 months ago
HuffPost Arts & Culture Punk is freedom.
The Art Show Every True Punk Rock Fan Has To See
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Washington Project for the Arts, "Punk Art" catalogue, front and back covers, 1978. "To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be su
130 months ago
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