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Le Tigre: the do-it-yourself doyennes of political dance-punk are looking to rouse music from its apathetic slumber with a fiery new album and a furious What becomes a Riot Grrrl most? In the case of Kathleen Hanna, former front woman for the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, it's a bona fide dust kicker....(Continue Reading) Billy Bragg: not a time for writing love songs - Interview - Biography Billy Bragg has seen many things since he was first inspired by The Clash: a brief period as a soldier (he'd fancied driving tanks); years on the road ......(Continue Reading)Neurotic outsiders - punk music - Brief Article Was punk merely a scam, or was it a movement that served notice of Britain's cultural and political stagnation? John Harris re-examines punk's assault ......(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)Punk In the mid-to-late 1970s a radical youth culture called punk emerged out of the larger rock 'n' roll scene, and developed its own music, ......(Continue Reading)
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