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I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet.
Put your braces together and your boots on your feet.
And give me some of that old moon-stomping.
— Symarip, “Skinhead Moonstomp”
People look at you in the street. Makes you feel proud. — a skinhead
Tribalism and Western youth go together, and from the 1960s to the 1980s in Britain the most feared tribe were skinheads. (more…)
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Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself. — Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
We were trying to write great pop songs, but ended up creating something new by accident. — Viv Albertine, Clothes, Boys, Music (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Punk Rock Roots of Punching Nazis,” on how punk went from toying with Nazi imagery to becoming intensely anti-fascist — and becoming a lot less interesting in the process. (more…)
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Blacks make up nearly a third of United States postal workers, and I don’t care if someone tries to punch me for suspecting that this is one of the main reasons our postal service is going to hell.
I make part of my living by selling my books through the mail, and skyrocketing postal prices combined with plummeting postal service means that no matter how meticulously I package the books I send out — they’re lovingly cocooned in a bubble envelope that is cradled inside a rigid cardboard mailer — sometimes they wind up damaged, anyway. (more…)
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In rock ’n’ roll it wasn’t the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories. — English rock journalist Nick Kent (more…)
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Jason Kessler and American Krogan were host Nick Jeelvy‘s guests on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they had a panel discussion on the Carny Question in Right-wing politics, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)