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The distillers: tattooed, tumultuous, and tearing up punk rock's rule book - Music Breakout - Brief Article Ever since the Distillers scored a radio hit last year with their punk-rock anti-anthem, "City of Angels," Brody Armstrong--the group's 24-year-old, ......(Continue Reading) Culture clash: at the time of his death last month, Joe Strummer remained one of our most original musicians. John King on the honest voice of punk It was Juvenile Jim who introduced me to The Clash. He had bought their first album because it had a Union Jack on the cover and was showing it off in the playground. I borrowed it off him, had a l...(Continue Reading)Gay hip-hop comes out; with a brand-new record deal, Brooklyn rapper Caushun is gay hip-hop's first mainstream hopebut he doesn't speak for the movement, Is hip-hop ready for a gay rap superstar? That's a big question, and here's a bigger one: Are we? For a generation of gays and lesbians raised on disco, ......(Continue Reading)White riot: John King on the legacy of punk. - three books on phenomenon of punk rock - book review PUNK Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan Cassell, 399pp, [pounds sterling]35 THE CLASH Photographs by Bob Gruen. Edited by Chris Salewicz ......(Continue Reading)Enemy lines: Richard Cook on half a century of reporting from the front line of popular culture - Music - the New Musical Express - Brief Article At 50 years old, the New Musical Express is the great survivor of the music press. Its birthday issue trumpets half a century of "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll", ......(Continue Reading)
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