Well-paced overview of the punk music scene from inception to fade-out by deejay/musicvideo helmer-turned-documentarian Don Letts, “Punk” sketches broad parameters for the explosive phenomenon. There ...
Punk is dead: a sentiment which has followed the subculture since its very beginnings. Despite what the purists claim, the philosophy of punk has thrived, progressing far beyond the safety pins and ...
On paper, punk has little in common with hard rock. In its infancy, it rejected corporate bands, guitar solos, concept albums, and similar bloat that plagued the biggest artists of the 1970s. But some ...
Out of the various countercultures, punk, by design, has remained on the fringe by embracing anti-establishment views, which to a degree extends to television. At the same time, the history of the ...
NEW YORK — Even in his teens, Terry Richardson was laying the grainy, seedy foundation for his signature imagery. A show of the first 15 rolls of film he ever shot opens Saturday at Glenn Horowitz ...
Don Letts got his start spinning reggae records at punk shows in 70s London and parlayed his association with the Clash into careers in music (with Mick Jones’s post-Clash outfit, Big Audio Dynamite) ...