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Subcultures, pop music and politics: skinheads and "Nazi rock" in England and Germany
Right-wing extremist rock music--so-called "Nazi rock"--is one of the most problematic of popular musical genres. Emerging from the skinhead ......(Continue Reading) Baby steps: with the help of his rock-star son, Don Delson morphed an ailing business selling ceramic-shoe keepsakes into a mechandiser of T-shirts for
PROFILE Keepsakes Group Year Founded: 1985 Core Business: Band merchandising and baby gifts Revenues in 2001:$4 million Revenues in 2002:$8 ......(Continue Reading)Nothing iffy about him: Iffy bassist Tom Merkl talks about his Dutch boyfriend, the influence of Leif Garrett, and being asked to judge wet T-shirt contests
Call it an Almost Famous moment. A few months back, a Savannah, Ga., rock station asked Tom Merkl and his cohorts in the band Iffy to play their soulful ......(Continue Reading)Town Guitar - L.A. rock music scene
TEN YEARS AFTER BOWING TO SEATTLE, L.A. IS LOUDLY RECLAIMING ITS TITLE AS ROCK CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE. BLISTERING NEW BANDS ARE MAKING A SCENE, LITERALLY, ......(Continue Reading)Eighties-rocker renaissance: once relegated to the dustbin of music history, the big-hair rock `n' roll bands of the 1980s now are on a national tour -
While most people thought that the big-hair rock bands of the 1980s were long gone, never to return to the music scene, eighties rock fans are detecting ......(Continue Reading)
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