DIY is thrown around carelessly in today’s failing music industry. The ‘biz’ adds the term to press releases to coin up street cred for the band they are marketing. Looking closely at the act’s overproduced musical by-product usually shows no ind...
Punk is something that many people pay lip service to, but rarely put into practice. It’s hard to take some-one’s ‘punk’ credentials seriously when you are reading about them on a promo sheet sent by a company employed to tell you just how punk a...
You could use almost every pun in the book to announce that Canadian punk band Fucked Up have taken the country’s most esteemed music prize, the Polaris, but we’ve decided to steer clear of that. The Toronto-based sextet beat out some of Canada’s...
A controversial new documentary titled Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam will premier at the Vancouver International film festival in October, finally putting this fringe music genre on the map. Described as Muslim punk, Taqwacore finds its orig...
New York punk-funk group The Rapture are working on their fourth as yet untitled album with Cassius’s very own Philippe Zdar.A very exciting prospect indeed, word of the collaboration passed down via an interview Zdar completed whilst recently in...
Say what you like about the never ending series of band reformations, but when Lady Blah Blah, sorry Lady Ga Ga, is lauded as some kind of svengali-pop-genius, we need a short sharp shock of reality. And, who better to deliver that than Atari Tee...
"To be bad is good... to be good is simply boring"Love or hate the guy, music svengali Malcolm McLaren has died overnight (April 8) after losing his battle with cancer at the age of 64. The controversial fifth wheel of the Sex Pistols, McLaren ro...
One of the great pioneers in music, Don Letts, will soon be commemorated in a new documentary entitled Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread.The West Indian Englishman was a pivotal force behind some of the greatest artists to appear in punk, rock n...
Legendary Bristol post-punk band the Pop Group are reforming. Cited as as an influence by a number of modern producers including LCD Soundsystem, the band have been credited with creating 'punk-funk'. Politically charged, abrasive, trailblazing -...
Punk funk seems such an outdated concept now. Just like Nu-Rave, Indie-dance and a whole other host of names that have been and gone that were used to describe the point where indie kids started going to clubs - Erol Alkan was king and Data Rock...
This Saturday Kitty-Yo are having a label night at Bar 25 right by the Spree river in Berlin. As the forecast says 28 degrees for the whole week this seems to be the perfect occasion for welcoming the 2007 summer. Join us for a great night at Bar...
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