Albums of Our Lives: My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade
The summer before my final year at college, my fear started to manifest as an anxiety disorder specializing in sickness and disease.
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Posts Tagged: Punk Rock
Swinging Modern Sounds #73: Prince Rogers Nelson, Guitar Player: A Symposium
I started thinking about additional, more slantwise ways we might talk about his legacy. What if I organized a bunch of guitar players?
...moreMemoir from Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace
The Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace has announced that Hatchette Books will be publishing her memoir Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout. The book was written with Noisey’s Dan Ozzi, who has said of the project: The book mixes narrative about Laura’s life—growing up with dysphoria and playing in our generation’s most […]
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Sound & Vision: Scott Crawford
Director and punk rock enthusiast Scott Crawford talks with Allyson McCabe about his film Salad Days, his punk fanzine Metrozine, Kickstarter, and DIY music culture.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Sean Madigan Hoen
“I wanted to convey the ecstatic experience of performing really destructive music, and to articulate the kind of raw need that drives young people to do so.”
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Swinging Modern Sounds #51: Free For One and All
Dean Wareham is a great writer, and possessed of a strikingly astringent and dry-eyed view of things without pity or self-pity or undue kindness, and what follows, I trust, will give abundant evidence of this.
...moreFiction Becomes Islamic Punk Reality
When Michael Muhammad Knight wrote his novel The Taqwacores, about Muslims playing punk music, he didn’t know his fictional story would end up throwing down roots in the real world. But young Muslims read the book and saw themselves: “I had a lot of guilt growing up about not doing the right thing or not being […]
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH CORIN TUCKER
Corin Tucker, formerly of Sleater-Kinney and Heavens to Betsy and now the leader of the Corin Tucker Band, has been called “a punk-rock heroine” by Rolling Stone. Judging by her band’s newest record, Kill My Blues, there is no reason to disagree.
...moreSeth Fischer, Editor Extraordinaire
Seth Fischer, our intrepid Sunday editor, recently relayed unto us his current house-sitting/writing endeavors down in L.A. His author interview on Neon Tommy covers the differences of being a writer in the two distant urban poles of California, his foray into online literature, thoughts on punk rock and the editorial life. Here’s a teaser, from […]
...moreThat Sick Feeling
Janice Shapiro’s characters see that the game of womanhood has no winners—and some are frantic for an escape that they do not find.
...moreTeenagers from Mars
Peter Bognanni’s first novel mixes punk rock and the wild creativity of Buckminster Fuller into a tender and believable chronicle of teen sorrow.
...moreExtreme Storytelling and Literary Mayhem
Mike Edison has been promoting the paperback edition of his book I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World in true Edison form: backed by a rock band.
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