Category: Punk Rock

  • Sinecure Books – California Beach, California Punk: Sounds of Two Eyes Opening | LensCulture

    Sinecure Books – California Beach, California Punk: Sounds of Two Eyes Opening | LensCulture

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    California Beach, California Punk: Sounds of Two Eyes Opening – Photographs by Spot | LensCulture Iconic photos from the golden days of California punk—these amazing captures from behind the scenes were taken by Spot, a legendary music producers who was there, at the heart of it all via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sinecure-books-california-beach-california-punk-sounds-of-two-eyes-opening Until now, Spot was known as the…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Lucian Perkins’ Photos of the DC Punk Scene

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Lucian Perkins’ Photos of the DC Punk Scene In 1979, photographer Lucian Perkins, who was at the time an intern for the Washington Post, found himself in the middle of the fast growing DC punk s… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/lucian-perkins-photos-of-the-dc-punk-scene In 1979, photographer Lucian Perkins, who was at the time an intern for the…

  • From Skinheads to Fashion: British Photographer Gavin Watson Discusses His Career – Feature Shoot

    From Skinheads to Fashion: British Photographer Gavin Watson Discusses His Career – Feature Shoot

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    From Skinheads to Fashion: British Photographer Gavin Watson Discusses His Career – Feature Shoot As a young teen from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, British photographer Gavin Watson captured the insular life of the skinhead scene in 1980’s England. Famous for his two books on skinhead life, Skins and Skins and Punks, Watson later ventured into the…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Edward Colver’s “Idle Worship @ Lethal Amounts, LA

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Edward Colver’s “Idle Worship @ Lethal Amounts, LA Between 1978-1984, photographer Edward Colver documented the Los Angeles underground scenes and subcultures that included the adolescent beginnings of… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/edward-colver-s-idle-worship-lethal-amounts-la Between 1978-1984, photographer Edward Colver documented the Los Angeles underground scenes and subcultures that included the adolescent beginnings of punk, hardcore, New Wave,…

  • Chris Suspect: Suspect Device at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche « The Leica Camera

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    Chris Suspect: Suspect Device at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche 30 years ago I went to my first punk show in the DC area. It was Naked Raygun, TSOL, MIA, Government Issue and the Cereal Killers at WUST Hall. Back then I didn’t have a camera nor the balls to photograph the bands, punks and skinheads at…

  • Gorgeous photos from the recent Afropunk fest in NYC by photographer Driely S. – Boing Boing

    Gorgeous photos from the recent Afropunk fest in NYC by photographer Driely S. – Boing Boing

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    Gorgeous photos from the recent Afropunk fest in NYC by photographer Driely S. Impressions of a style-filled event we wish we’d attended. via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/09/03/gorgeous-photos-from-the-recen.html C-heads Magazine has a 2-part photo essay from the recent Afropunk music festival in NYC, “rad impressions shot by Brazilian origin but NYC based photographer Driely S.”

  • Afropunks, Come as You Are

    Afropunks, Come as You Are

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    Afropunks, Come as You Are Phil Knott’s portraits of the Afropunk scene show “the other black experience” among fans of alternative music. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/afropunks-come-as-you-are/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0&gwh=DB11F53002DA98C68386134C30602155&gwt=pay A group of researchers at Yale just launched “a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm…

  • Pogo Dancing in Myanmar

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    Pogo Dancing in Myanmar Photographer Olaf Schuelke happens upon an illegal punk rock concert in Yangon. via Roads & Kingdoms: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/pogo-dancing-in-myanmar/ n the eve of this year’s Water Festival in Myanmar’s main city, a colorful crowd gathers under an inner-city bridge with passing cars on two levels. An illegal punk rock concert is about to…

  • The Backyard Punk Scene in East L.A. Photographed by Angela Boatwright

    The Backyard Punk Scene in East L.A. Photographed by Angela Boatwright

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    The Backyard Punk Scene in East L.A. Photographed by Angela Boatwright – Feature Shoot In East Los, part of the Living Off the Wall documentary series by Vans, documentarian Angela Boatwright takes a candid, in-depth look into the punk-rock scene in East Lost Angeles. In addition to five short documentary pieces, East Los includes a…

  • Book Review: Punk Press

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    Book Review: Punk Press Punk Press . Edited by Vincent Berniere and Mariel Primois. Abrams Books, 2013. Punk Press Reviewed by Blake Andrews Punk Pres… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/04/book-review-punk-press.html Punk is unpolished. In fact that’s sort of the point of it. Grainy half-tones from old magazines bleeding into the gutter are completely appropriate. String a few hundred…

  • Pari Dukovic’s Photographs of the Punk Culture in Southeast Asia

    Pari Dukovic’s Photographs of the Punk Culture in Southeast Asia

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    Burma Wave Dukovic said that his experience documenting this growing movement in Yangon, as well as and in Jakarta and Banda Aceh, in Indonesia, was eye-opening: … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/burma-wave-pari-dukovics-photographs-of-the-punk-culture-in-southeast-asia.html#slide_ss_0=1 In Myanmar, a small punk community that stayed underground through decades of military rule is beginning to emerge

  • Mark Murrmann: Just a Performance

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    Link: The Leica Camera There’s an element of trying to capture a realness, a kind of spontaneity to both that’s appealing. But of course in punk, like just about anything else, there’s definitely an element of performance, controlled chaos and building off of what’s come before. To that end, covering music, especially larger bands, reminds…

  • The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa – Boing Boing

    The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa – Boing Boing

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    The Beautiful and The Damned: Punk Photography by Ann Summa Iggy Pop More than 60 images of L.A.’s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up “The Beautiful and the Damned”, a show on display at Track 16 … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html More than 60 images of L.A.’s…

  • DOUBLE CROSS: Fred Hammer's Nardcore Top 10

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    Fred Hammer’s Nardcore Top 10 Fred Hammer is Nardcore. We’ve been meaning to pick his brain on what he feels are the top ten Nardcore records of all time. Take it awa… Link: http://doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com/2010/09/fred-hammers-nardcore-top-10.html Fred Hammer is Nardcore. We’ve been meaning to pick his brain on what he feels are the top ten Nardcore records…

  • Maximum Rocknroll: Kick-Ass Photos From Iconic Punk Mag | Raw File

    Maximum Rocknroll: Kick-Ass Photos From Iconic Punk Mag | Raw File

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    Maximum Rocknroll: Kick-Ass Photos From Iconic Punk Mag via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/05/gallery-maximum-rocknroll/ This year MRR released its first photography issue, interviewing punk shooters and showcasing contributions from MRR’s global readership. Punk’s in-your-face aesthetic is as different from detached rock stars as Maximum’s anti-commercial stance is from corporate magazines. Despite the dire financial straights of many media…

  • Slug and Lettuce – Punk/DIY Online Photo Archives Have Arrived! – WFMU

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    Slug and Lettuce – Punk/DIY Online Photo Archives Have Arrived! Chris Boarts Larson is always busy, and always smiling. She is the creator of Slug and Lettuce fanzine, a free quarterly publication that celebrated it’s 20 year anniversary in 2007 with issue #90. Starting in NYC, Slug and Lettuce was… via WFMU’s Beware of the…

  • lila schaffler – my collections | burn magazine

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    lila schaffler – my collections [slidepress gallery=’lilaschaffler_mycollections’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Lila Schaffler My Collections play this e… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/12/lila-schaffler-my-collections/ It seems have been taking my camera on walks since the age of twelve.  I have collected more images than I could even…

  • Scenes From the Beijing Rock Underground | Raw File

    Scenes From the Beijing Rock Underground | Raw File

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    Scenes From the Beijing Rock Underground via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/12/gallery-beijing-rock-underground/ Matthew Niederhauser became immersed in Chinese culture as he traveled through the country and researched its urban development and the impact of cultural tourism in Tibet. In 2007 he stumbled upon a small but passionate group of rockers in Beijing who stood apart from cultural norms.…

  • Man accused of extorting money in punk rock scene

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    Man accused of extorting money in punk rock scene — chicagotribune.com: A founding member of a group that allegedly uses violence to control the punk rock scene in clubs and at concerts in major U.S. cities was charged with extorting a Chicago-area recording artist, federal authorities said Tuesday. Elgin Nathan James, identified by authorities as…

  • DOUBLE CROSS: Pat Longrie part II

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    From DOUBLE CROSS: Pat Longrie part II: The Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, MDC and the Zero Boys played a show at “Old Town” in Westminster, California in 1983…the most powerful, electric, eclectic bill I ever saw. Old Town was where the Oktoberfest festival occurred each year so it was, to say the least, an odd…